Nathan Schneider writes a piece for his blog Waging Non Violence that is published concurrently on Ad Busters in the run up to September 17 Occupy Wall Street that cites myself and US Day of Rage:
Few groups taking part are more organized, though, than US Day of Rage. Its founder, a sharp-featured, sharp-tongued IT strategist named Alexa O'Brien, insists that she's "a normal sort of nobody." She and her colleagues are prolific on Twitter, and their website features a range of resources, including nonviolent direct action manuals, a tactical plan for September 17, and an embedded YouTube video of the group's official song, the theme from the 1970s show Free to Be... You and Me.US Day of Rage also has a head start on answering the question that Adbusters posed in its initial call: "What is our one demand?" O'Brien launched her site back in March, while she was blogging about the Middle Eastern revolutions and the revelations coming out of WikiLeaks. On Twitter, she asked people what they thought was wrong with this country, and it all seemed to come down to one thing: the influence of big money in politics. This led naturally to the group's slogan, a plan for radical campaign finance reform: "One citizen. One dollar. One vote." Besides that, O'Brien refuses to label herself or the organization with any ideological stamp.
"I think it's really typical of the internet generation," she says, "to look at process much more than ideology as what's going to save us."
There's a certain ring to this proposal; it has the makings of what Buckminster Fuller called a "trimtab"--a simple change that could change the course of the whole system. But it's far from a universal priority among those organizing for September 17. Others have called for restoring the Glass-Steagall Act, or imposing higher taxes on the rich, or ending the endless wars abroad.
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But September 17 isn't just happening on Wall Street. For its part, US Day of Rage is organizing actions that day in Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle as well. (Washington, DC will have to wait for the occupation of Freedom Plaza planned for October 6.) Meanwhile, Take the Square, a network that grew out of the Spanish May 15 movement, lists solidarity demonstrations across Spain, as well as in Italy, England, Canada, Greece, Germany, Portugal, Austria, the Netherlands, Israel, and France.
