I listened for a while to the Occupy Brooklyn General Assembly meeting before I knew that this Occupy(fill-in-the-blank) movement needed us.

At the end of the meeting there were so many working groups dealing with things like people of color issues, housing, outreach, media, and on and on. It is not that these issues are not important, they are, but they are policy questions. It struck me that here was a democratic meeting of citizens trying to discuss policy – that is great. But, we already are supposed to have a place where this happens called the legislature, local, state and federal. THE ISSUE IS NOT A POLICY PROBLEM IS IS A DEMOCRACY PROBLEM.

It is very clear that this energy should not be wasted discussing policy. We should only be discussing principals. How do we want to structure the democracy in which we live so that we are heard on these important policy issues. If these occupiers would organize themselves into a single-issue voting block with one demand – representation (30,000:1) we would be unstoppable. Then we could debate policy in an effective way!

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