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Nonviolence

We are here to make a point and the best way to do that is through non-violent demonstration. It is hard to remain calm and collect, but it’s not impossible. We do not have to resort to violence because we are stronger then the opposition.

Nonviolence is a great power which, when used correctly, can overturn empires. You will be drawing on that power, the full extent of which comes into our hands when we adopt it deeply and consistently, not because it’s our only option but because it’s the option that allows us to preserve our humanity in the process of struggle, i.e. to not further create the problem we’re trying to solve. Just ends and nonviolent means are a powerful combination, and that becomes clearer the longer the struggle goes on. We also get closer to the full potential of nonviolence when we have trained ourselves to the point where nonviolence is practically a way of life, offering unyielding resistance to injustice but never hostility to the true well-being of any person…

- Metta Center for Nonviolence

Please visit www.mettacenter.org and learn more about how nonviolence and demonstration.

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  1. Akamia
    December 11, 2024 at 1:09 am

    ****haha here is first paragraph edited….*****
    This page is supposed to be for knowledge… all it says is non violence.. yes this is number one important thing.. but people need to know exactly what they are fighting for… Sacramento needs to be more organized… what are you fighting for??? …This list below, is from another page in another town… Sounds good.. Shouldn’t every person out in the street know this.. its with having knowledge we will win, and if people don’t have the knowledge then they don’t have the words to calmly and correctly fight with the cops, instead they only yell and shout things..Everyone needs to be informed. maybe print flyers and give them to everyone, fully explaining what we want, and how to handle cops, what to say etc.. Not everyone seems to have gone and done their research, not a bad thing, they still count and glad their there. we just have to inform everyone and get them all on the same track… correct? good place to start is to put the knowledge right here where it says it would be.. correct?

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  2. Akamia
    December 11, 2024 at 1:05 am

    This page is supposed to be for knowledge… all it says is non violence.. yes this is number one important thing.. but people need to know exactly what they are fighting for… Sacramento needs to be more organized… what are you fighting for??? …This is from another page in another town… Sounds good.. Shouldn’t ever person out in the street know this.. its with out knowledge we will win, and if people don’t have the knowledge then they don’t have the words to calmly and correctly fight with the cops, instead they only yell and shout things..Everyone needs to be informed. maybe print flyers and give them to everyone, fully explaining what we want, and how to handle cops, what to say etc.. Not everyone seems to have gone and done their research, not a bad thing, they still count and glad their there. we just have to inform everyone and get them all on the same track… correct?

    A Proposal for Occupy Wall Street
    (Submitted by Michael Moore)

    1. Eradicate the Bush tax cuts for the rich and institute new taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on corporations, including a tax on all trading on Wall Street (where they currently pay 0%).

    2. Assess a penalty tax on any corporation that moves American jobs to other countries when that company is already making profits in America. Our jobs are the most important national treasure and they cannot be removed from the country simply because someone wants to make more money.

    3. Require that all Americans pay the same Social Security tax on all of their earnings (normally, the middle class pays about 6% of their income to Social Security; someone making $1 million a year pays about 0.6% (or 90% less than the average person). This law would simply make the rich pay what everyone else pays.

    4. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, placing serious regulations on how business is conducted by Wall Street and the banks.

    5. Investigate the Crash of 2008, and bring to justice those who committed any crimes.

    6. Reorder our nation’s spending priorities (including the ending of all foreign wars and their cost of over $2 billion a week). This will re-open libraries, reinstate band and art and civics classes in our schools, fix our roads and bridges and infrastructure, wire the entire country for 21st century internet, and support scientific research that improves our lives.

    7. Join the rest of the free world and create a single-payer, free and universal health care system that covers all Americans all of the time.

    8. Immediately reduce carbon emissions that are destroying the planet and discover ways to live without the oil that will be depleted and gone by the end of this century.

    9. Require corporations with more than 10,000 employees to restructure their board of directors so that 50% of its members are elected by the company’s workers. We can never have a real democracy as long as most people have no say in what happens at the place they spend most of their time: their job. (For any U.S. businesspeople freaking out at this idea because you think workers can’t run a successful company: Germany has a law like this and it has helped to make Germany the world’s leading manufacturing exporter.)

    10. We, the people, must pass three constitutional amendments that will go a long way toward fixing the core problems we now have. These include:

    a) A constitutional amendment that fixes our broken electoral system by 1) completely removing campaign contributions from the political process; 2) requiring all elections to be publicly financed; 3) moving election day to the weekend to increase voter turnout; 4) making all Americans registered voters at the moment of their birth; 5) banning computerized voting and requiring that all elections take place on paper ballots.

    b) A constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not people and do not have the constitutional rights of citizens. This amendment should also state that the interests of the general public and society must always come before the interests of corporations.

    c) A constitutional amendment that will act as a “second bill of rights” as proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt: that every American has a human right to employment, to health care, to a free and full education, to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat safe food, and to be cared for with dignity and respect in their old age.

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    • ashley
      December 14, 2024 at 5:20 pm

      I agree , I’ve scene the reports on the news and I’m all for the community and the occupation but wasn’t clear on the motive behind it, the only way to achieve success is to be extremely organized and precise. But nice to see my city is doing something positive.

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    • Matthew Darcey
      January 2, 2024 at 3:19 pm

      Its a good List.

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  3. Tim L.
    November 21, 2024 at 10:32 am

    I just wanted to suggest Occupying Capitol Mall in Downtown Sac. This is the hub of business here in sacramento and has TONS of space and is PUBLIC! If this is considered, I will join the protests.

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