Recovery begins when addiction ends: an open letter to Jamie Dimon (#OWS)
May 17, 2012
Posted here on Naked Capitalism, written by the Alternative Banking group of Occupy Wall Street.
Please spread widely!
mathbabe
Exploring and venting about quantitative issues
Back in early October, the OWS anti-co-optation group was about to issue a rhetorically grandiose, sophomoric statement that I thought would embarrass the movement. That’s when I got vocal on the listserv. In the end, we tossed the rhetoric and pared the statement down to a clear, brief, strong statement. When it was finally presented to the GA, a couple of small objections stalled it.
Maybe if we’d kept the rhetorical excess it would have passed the GA in a rush of cheers. But I felt, and still believe, it’s perfectly okay for OWS not to have written statements, and should issue only strategically well-crafted material in writing.
That’s what I found so gratifying in your presentation on Frontline, Cathy. It made OWS look smart, professional and incisive, not bush-league or naive.
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Thank you! It’s my opinion that everyone in OWS has to do it their own way, and we go about it in a million ways, which is a good thing, because we are trying to reach a million people (at a time).
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