Stay United! - A Letter To OWS Movement
In NYC From A Supporter
Hence the real task in front of OWS in NYC is to construct a fair, truthful, honest compromise between General Assembly and Spokes Council in order to increase the efficiency of the OWS movement in the context of its direct democracy. That would be really something!
This is dubious! I don't know who the author is--and he doesn't want to tell us--but this cannot be taken seriously. He's advocating power sharing between the GA which represents everybody, and one of its subordinate working groups. Is this a joke? The concept is subversive and its advocacy Orwellian. If the GA isn't in charge, then the whole Occupy- movement consensus-building structure is a sham. OWS has capital scared, and the latter will advance on every front to undermine the movement. There's going to be lots of bullshit like this in the coming months. We will be offered many different ropes with which to hang ourselves.
What we cannot do is surrender the sovereignty of the GA to anyone. Ever. Responsibility can always be delegated--subject, of course, the the approval of the assembly--to working of affinity to groups with the understanding that the authority which accompanies that responsibility can be withdrawn at any time, and/or the individual people replaced. The Spokes Council works for and is subordinate to the GA. Anyone suggesting that the distribution/allocation of funds should be left to a special autonomous, independent, unaccountable group (such as exists on Wall Street and the Fed currently), is no friend to OWS, democracy, equality or humanity.
http://www.countercurrents.org/drc061111.htm
