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Occupy on Maui -- and "Paia Girl"
September 13, 2012 | 11:01 PM
“Paia Girl” is, of course, entitled to her opinion, and goodness knows we have heard it plenty of times. Or rather, heard _of_ it " never directly, to our faces, in open meetings. And that remains at the core of Occupy and OWS-Maui, from start to now " open meetings and open discussion (yes, they get loud and messy " it’s called participation and exchange of ideas, building new structures, that sort of thing). We began and remain committed to the principles laid out in the NYC declaration (it’s on Occupymaui.com, if interested). And yes, we go beyond waving signs and supporting one set of tired old pols over another. We do get theatrical, even confrontational " non-violent (our commitment) does _not_ mean “non-challenging.” It’s part of what makes us Occupy, not just another bunch of shills for yet another tired cause or party. (And by way, we’re the only group on Maui to have committed themselves to all those Occupy ideas and ways of working, whatever “Paia Girl” may think.)
Let’s be clear: we’re interested in real structural change, coming from people making themselves heard, not just being told what to support and handed the signs and T-shirts. Should we ask the “newcomers,” whoever they are, to go back where they came from, and take their dangerous democratic (small “d”) ideas with them? Not hardly -- somehow we feel this is a movement and, in the end, a society for all of us " the 99%, including kama’aina and malahini, “local” and not, young and old. Not just one for those who can summon the shrillest insults " there’s enough of that going around already.
Linda Green
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