From Aljazeera
By Danny Schechter
"In fact, OWS activists caution against bringing demands before bodies that really don't have the power to satisfy them. The recent edition of Occupy's theoretical journal, Tidal (as in "tidal wave"), carries an essay warning that by floating specific demands, you lose control over how the public perceives issues that are interconnected. This can also, they fear, validate institutions that lack legitimacy.
As a long-time human rights advocate, I have a slightly different approach. I think it's important we recognise that there are economic and social rights as well as political ones, and that if the UN has the duty to "protect" ordinary people against military abuses, it also has the obligation to protect citizens who are being abused by the decisions of the 1 per cent - bankers, economic policymakers and big business honchos."
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