Adbusters calls for a "spiritual insurrection" starting May 1

[zeemike]

9. Well I hope it works.

Because we need creative solutions...
The one failing I see in the Occupy movement that makes it unlike the civil rights movement is the unwillingness to go to jail...and I can understand that
But what made non violent protest work in the civil rights movement and with Gandhi is the willingness to go to jail...
When the first two buses of the freedom riders left for Mississippi one of them was surrounded by the Klan and burned and the occupants assaulted...when the cops arrived they told the Klan..."OK you boys have had your fun, now go home"
The second buss made it to the buss terminal and there were cops there to protect the white waiting room and every one of them were arrested and put in Jail.
But that touched off a wave all over the country of young people...black and white who wanted to become freedom riders and were all willing to go to jail and Mississippi was overwhelmed and defeated at least in the bus station.
The sit ins at the lunch counter went the same way....when the ones sitting were arrested there was a line of people waiting to take their place.....it was a badge of honer among the young to be arrested for civil disobedience.

I hope creative solutions can be had that will work without putting your body on the line.