Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.

If what you want is actual change, then what has to be built is a mass movement that is militant and can use direct action to slow or stop profit. A movement that can do that can demand whatever it wants.

Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty?

The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens.

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.