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To the people of the world,<\/p>\n

We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.<\/p>\n

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Declaration of the Occupation of New York City | NYC General Assembly<\/a><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t said anything about Occupy Wall Street because really, I do not comment on US politics unless it\u2019s something related to US in relation to other places or to people perceived by the US as Non-American. Really, Occupy Wall Street is not my business, many people are commenting on the events with smart stuff and critical analysis. The only thing I\u2019ve said in passing before is that I am deeply suspicious of any Social Movement that presents itself as rooted in \u201cMiddle Class values\u201d (same thing I said about the European movement known as \u201cThe Indignant Ones\u201d) because, more often than not, those \u201cvalues\u201d are just thinly veiled entitlement.<\/p>\n

But the quote above? It rubs me off the wrong way, to the point that I had to re-read it several times to make sure I wasn’t misinterpreting. Because, surprise! \u201cPeople of the World<\/em>\u201d have been trying to assert power for oh, I don\u2019t know, centuries<\/em>! As a matter of fact, my knowledge of social protests, organizations and unrest comes from having participated in some of them first hand in South America and having seen those develop, raise and eventually crash (see my comment above about Middle Class participation? That\u2019s where I got my critical views from, because I\u2019ve seen it happen before). And now, to have a group of American people, uncritically decree that \u201cPeople of the World<\/em>\u201d should do X is well\u2026 offensive. Because it says nothing of the role of the US in oppressed parts of the world (again, I\u2019ll repeat this until you are tired hearing it: CIA backed dictatorships in Latin America) and because it does not interrogate how many of the same people now occupying Wall Street (mainly those who are White and US Nationals) have actively benefited from these US interventions (like forceful trade agreements with nations in the Global South that brought unhinged economic misery to those nations while fostering an unfair trade benefit for the US and, by proxy, to US citizens and the US corporations employing those citizens and creating US wealth).<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019ll excuse me, I have family and friends in Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia to contact. As a matter of urgency I must inform them that we finally have permission from the Empire to \u201cassert our power<\/em>\u201d. Because we have all been sitting on our hands waiting for this very moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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