[lbo-talk] Occupy's 89%? Where anarchism shuns unionists, it allies with the ultra-right

[shag carpet bomb]

At 07:13 PM 3/7/2012, // ravi wrote:
>On Mar 7, 2012, at 6:19 PM, c b wrote quotes some dude named Greg Rose:
> >
> > It is a sign of the intellectual bankruptcy of the Oakland Commune,
> > which sees the failure of organized labor to immediately form up
> > behind the Black Bloc as an indication that organized labor should be
> > demonized and dismissed in favor of a mix of the unemployed, the
> > underemployed, lumpenproletarians, and the homeless who form the new
> > revolutionary hope.
>
>
>That's a winning argument, right there!
>
>         —ravi

this from Occ Seattle - which doesn't seem to be what Rose says it's about:

<http://www.facebook.com/OccupySeattle>Occupy Seattle

The historic Dec 12th 2011 West Coast Port Shutdown revealed that the 
Occupy Movement has become a new type of movement of unemployed, low waged, 
and casualized workers both in the workplace and outside of it. We are the 
89% of the US working class that is not unionized. Many of us are 
immigrants and women. We showed we are capable of shutting down the 
businesses which fuel Wall St. profit.

Some of us are also rank and file union members who realize that we need to 
expand beyond the limits of traditional labor struggle if we want to stop 
the attacks we are facing.

We are in solidarity with Occupy Longview and ILWU Local 21. EGT is a 
multinational conglomerate owned partially by Bunge, Inc, a grain cartel 
that controls 1/4 of the world's grain supply. They are trying to bust the 
International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 by hiring scab 
labor in their new grain terminal. We won't let that happen. Some members 
of Occupy Seattle are preparing to join Occupy Oakland and Occupy Portland 
in a mass convergence in Longview. On the 6th, come learn more, get 
involved, and prepare for this event.