What Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode?

[ellenrr]

4. I don't think having many different groups is necessarily a bad thing--

"so many special interest variants trying to fight the spread of Oligarchy - should I join the green party, should i join greenpeace, OWS, move-on and all the other hundreds of groups committed to social justice?"

we have different groups means we can follow our own critera. For ex, I choose to work with groups which are not allied with the Dem Party, like move-on, or those which are into electoral politics like the green party.

So I have a choice of other independent grass-roots groups.

Also I think we are seeing more and more groups coming together to work together.
And also a growing realization that "one-issue" will not get it.

In my town we started a group to become educated in direct action.
I have never been arrested, but want to be arrested, when it seems the correct thing to do. (Not that all people who do direct action plan to be arrested of course.)

We have a large membership of many different groups. We hope that this group can serve as a "clearing-house" so to speak of unifying and alerting each other to our various actions.