"We told him (Pres. Obama) that the country was on the brink"

[dixiegrrrrl]

Read what the community members of the Ferguson Commission told the President on Monday.

We told President Obama that we were not the “People’s Spokespeople”.
We told him that we had neither the power, positions, nor desires to stop the eruptions in the streets and that they would continue until a radical change happened in this country.
We told him that we had no faith in anything, church or state.
We told him that the country was on the brink and that nothing short of major capitulations at all levels of the government to the demands of the people could prevent it.
Straight talk like that.

If we don’t get what we came for, we will shut it down. President Obama knows that and we know it. No meeting can stop that.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/05/obama-ferguson-movement-oval-office-meeting

[SoCalDem]

1. Want to get some attention?

A simple across the board boycott of corporate america...by anyone who's offended by "the way things are"..

No Walmart
No McDonalds
No malls
no movie theatres

only home cooked meals with things purchased at locally owned businesses

something like that can get the attention of the moneyed classes a lot faster than marchers...and it won't get you arrested.
.......

and organize to get everyone registered

and search for viable candidates to run for local offices ASAP..

[starroute]

2. Most Americans don't have the time or the money

There's are no stay-at-home moms to do that home cooking -- or to make the leisurely round of local small businesses the way my mother did when I was little.

Americans want one-stop, quick in-and-out, buy something after work to throw on the dinner table shopping. They simply have no alternative.

The current protests at least have the virtue of magnifying the efforts of a relatively small number of protesters. But if you think a mass movement on the terms you're describing is viable, you haven't looked out your window lately.

[jeff47]

3. More like throw on the dinner table between job #2 and job #3.

But the real problem is all those downtrodden spending all their time at movie theaters.

[SoCalDem]

12. I have not been in a movie theatre since Pretty Woman came out, but

MANY young people DO go ..and they go over and over..

There are always millions of reasons why something won't work

[vt_native]

5. I don't think home cooking necessarily takes too long

But no one knows how to prepare quick and healthy meals.

[kydo]

6. I have been doing that for years

Well mostly, every now and then I go to micky d's. But its been years since I went to the movies. Years since going to the malls. And over a decade since I stepped foot in a walmart.

I also vote and research for viable candidates.
Sadly I live in Seminole county fl which makes mica my congress critter. He his an idiot.

But I have lost weight.... Wait for the dvd release for movies. And shop at places other then malls, and walmart. So I am reasonably happy.

[SoCalDem]

11. So have we.. We are in the divesting phase of our lives

and we love it

[RoccoR5955]

10. Better yet... GENERAL STRIKE!!!!! n/t

[albino65]

4. The time has come

Shut it down!

[jen63]

7. Who ever is contributing

to writing these letters on behalf of Ferguson is doing an awesome job with tone and content. Quiet determination and facts.

[zeemike]

8. Well it won't be easy.

Because our rulers have a "let them eat cake" attitude toward the "little people"

And they have confidence in their ability to control things with a militarized police department that seems to despise us as much as their bosses do.
And more importantly total informational awareness, and a band of agent provocateurs to create the negative images needed for the nightly news to use to discredit it all with.

But throughout history the elite has always overplayed their hand...so there is reason to hope.

[nichomachus]

9. The time for meetings has passed

You had the chance. You blew it.

Now it's either action -- or reaction.