When do we want it? Soon.

Ahh The Simpsons,
the rally of 88 won them the dental plan.

Carl: What do we want?
All: More equitable treatment at the hands of management!
Carl: When do we want it?
All: Soon!

Occupy Melbourne.
Day 3.
And a dollar short.

Can we get a consensus on anything?

Let's see...

Should we
a) have banners, regardless of what they say facing the street?
or
b) only have Occupy Melbourne banners?

I think the consensus was only Occupy Melbourne banners. (Otherwise it was considered Advertising)

Should we
a) hand out flyers to workers on their lunch breaks, regardless of their earnings or necessity to work that say "You corporate fucking scumbag"
or
b) not do that.

um.

Should we
a) go up to workers on their lunch breaks, regardless of their earnings or necessity to work to yell "Scumbag"?
or
b) not do that.

um.

What about Scab?
um.

Should we
a) collect money from sale of items regarding this movement?
or
b) not collect money?
or
c) collect donations?
or
d) have the money go to the specific organisation?
or
e) have the money go towards Occupy Melbourne?

Money Money Money..
in the 99% world.

There was one great speaker tonight, who wasn't on the megaphone.

She said
"Yelling scumbag to workers will alienate them."
"My father wears a suit in a job to provide for his family."
"We, in calling people scumbags are the 1% not the 99%."

here here.

I left fuming at their incompetence to decide on their favourite colour,
let alone forming a new movement.
Monday night obviously wasn't a great night to choose to attend.

I called my mother, she'd never heard of the Occupy Wall Street,
and she watches telly every single evening.
She noted how angry I was.

I knew that nothing would come of a sit-in in Melbourne, but I really didn't think that they'd let anyone without a fucking clue try to pass motions as they would on the fucking toilet.

Oohh that was a big one, everyone clap and do jazz hands to support the movement of shite.

Angry?
Yes.
When do we want change?
Soon.

I think The Simpsons had it right in saying soon.
Nothing is going to come of a bunch of half-wits thinking they're public speakers, what are they trying to convince us of? All we can hope for is the Occupy Wall Streeters come up with something. It's been a month, so "soon" is apt, Rome wasn't built in a day, sorry to use that adage, but we really need to focus on what we can change to subtly and gently tell the fat cats we mean business (pun intended). The fact that if anything is going to change, it's our collective attitude towards the following:

Norms:
* green energy (I have 100% green energy in my home, do you?).
* public transport/cycle/walk/alternatively look at what you drive (looking at you 4WD-in-the-city owners)
* don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't call food.
* not buying that third or fourth investment property to rent out to people who can't afford a deposit to buy their own, remember council houses? When my parent's couldn't afford to buy, they rented a council house, from the fucking council, not from some rich fucker.
* cut down on meat consumption and whilst you're at it, be kind to animals.
* not buying stocks/shares/investment plans, actually nothing that doesn't give you something solid in return, unless it's a membership, a donation to a charity/organisation or a raffle at the school fete.
* not waste water.
* reduce, reuse, recycle, freecycle.

Ideals:
* free tertiary education paid for by the state (in essence, you teach yourself at university, not the other way around. You (aside from paying wages) pay for having your work critiqued and also for a bit of parchment paper with a seal.
* health care and dental paid for by the state.
* green power only.
* permaculture.

It's idiotic to imagine that a group of stupid fucks are going to bring down the bankers, which in turn will bring down the government to a level where it actually is for the people not for the bankers, which in turn will bring genuine revenue and resources back to the people.

Furiocity.
Every action you make is a decision for our collective future.
When can we do it?

You guessed it.

Don't give a fuck?
Well we'll all be dead soon.
And then the planet can rejuvenate.