economic institutions.”71 Such economic interventions can that is a problem that the world needs to respond to, not
create dramatic change when global activists and other just the oligarchs and so-called nuclear experts. During the
interested parties work together to determine the desired Occupy Wall Street protests there was global solidarity that
outcome of each type of intervention, and then proceed to lead to the creation of the website Occupy Together, which
effective implementation of their strategy. For instance, was international in scope and did allow for the
Russia and the U.S. may already be implementing some of synchronizing of activist ventures without regard to
these strategies as part of their own economic warfare borders. Of course the Occupy movement is not a new
techniques, but it may come as quite a surprise when both movement, but just a reinvention of an old movement that
sides see their plans backfiring because of the indirect began building momentum in U.S. modern times during the
intervention measures taken by global activists. Scenarios 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. In my
of this sort include the large scale use of bit coins or other opinion, and from my experience of knowing people who
non-standard currency not regulated by government. Wide participated in those protests, they were not orchestrated
scale use of such currencies have the potential to by any pro-Communist or anti-American organization. They
undermine the value of global financial holdings of were protests against the corporate greed among the
billionaires, which would require them to rethink their own world’s wealthiest CEOs and the damage that greed has
investments. A seizure of assets operation could include done to the Earth and it’s global inhabitants.
S u c h p ro t e s t i s n o t a n e w
the petitioning for changes in
phenomenon. It was in the same
economic policy which require
spirit of protest against greed that the
billionaires to pay higher taxes in
French Revolution was launched and
order to provide the necessary public
the Boxer Rebellion carried out.
goods which can enable regional
Peasant uprisings are common
peace and political stability (i.e.
throughout history, but middle class
nuclear waste prevention and clean
and low income peoples rarely rise to
up funds, arms for jobs campaigns,
power during such uprisings, no
and cultural & educational programs
matter what people are led to believe.
promoting diversity, cooperation, and
Lenin and Trotsky were not peasants
collaboration). The billionaires are not
and Mao Zedong, although born into
to be shunned from such actions
a
peasant family, was well enough off
either, as not all billionaires and
to
be
able
to
travel
the
country and attend school - not
oligarchs are war profiteers or corporate despots. And their
something
most
poor
peasant
farmers in China were able
involvement adds a new dynamic that can help reshape
to
do
at
the
time.
Barack
Obama
may have been a
future events in dramatic ways.
community
organizer,
but
he
never
truly
experienced what
Sharp lists six actions holders of financial
it
was
like
to
live
in
the
ghetto,
and
Putin
is just as KGB as
resources can make to help influence events through
Bush
is
CIA
hardly
clubs
for
the
common
layperson, no
economic noncooperation. Thos