Some Facts on Occupy in the Net

Dear Folks, I sent the following to Michael Moore in reply to one  of  his pitches for the Occupiers.

Dear Michael, You are certainly one of my heroes. Your books have given me a strong voice Now OWS has given you, I and millions a public voice we have desperately needed. Is there a plan for an Occupy Congress? In a Friday November 25th page A 20 New York Times article, entitled, "Protesters look for ways to feed the web." I read there of a national day, Dec. 6th to protest foreclosures. This is the kind of focused agendae we need. In this article, leaders of the movement hold that building "a large network on social media sites" needs also the "on the ground face to face actions" to buttress the growing network info. Agreed. However it is worth noting, as this article points out, that video on YouTube helped enormously to spread the word and pictures of the U of Calif Davis pepperspraying of peaceful students. YouTube is "now a formidable digital presence with l.7 million videos, viewed 73 million times....tagged with the word, 'occupy.' ....in the YouTube's News and Politics category." Also, "The movement counts more than 400 Facebook pages with 2.7 million fans around the world." People can go to such sites as above noted YouTube site, as well as Tumblr.com and GlobalRevolution.tv and finally 140elect.com


Michael I have been a Democrat because it is aligned with the deep intent of the Founding Fathers and, because -as an eleven year old --I watched men in our Italian community in Portland, Ore, once out of work and despairing, going to work in the CCC and WPA as created by FDR. What ever of value that exists for the ordinary person, the poor and the middle class has been created by this party in 95 percent of the cases over these 80 years. Sincerely, John Giannini