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NIGHTSTICKS

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STREET!

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some purity of action or word will change this.

While we should take seriously the issues of strategy and promoteaccountability, we must avoid playing into a simplistic divisionbetween legitimate and illegitimate protesters. We cannot afford thisdangerous and false division, which ultimately blames people of

conscience for attempting to change the world and draws attentionaway from the larger problems.

Genuine participation in the Occupy movement may lead to murkysituations which may not t into a larger strategy. These situationswill always exert a cost to the movement but without striving forsolidarity, this cost will be even higher. Occupy will be underminedby the divisions which will emerge if factions continue to attempt tobolster their own legitimacy by throwing those they disagree with topolice or media in denunciations or collaboration.

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Nightsticks to Wall Street!chanted on the streets of Portland, Oregonon the morning of Sunday, Nov 13th while riotpolice menaced the crowd

Power concedes nothing without ademand. It never did and it neverwill. Find out just what any people willquietly submit to and you have found

out the exact measure of injusticeand wrong which will be imposedupon them, and these will continue tillthey are resisted with either words orblows, or both. The limits of tyrants areprescribed by the endurance of thosewhom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

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