In a video tribute to the team at Occupy Wall Street that staged the OWS 15th Anniversary” at Zuccotti Park this past Wednesday, Baldwin applauded them for bringing the organization back into public awareness.

“I look forward to seeing a movement with sustained power that can help create a better world. I believe OWS2026 can do just that,” he declares in a video posted at the Occupy2026 website.

Wow, that’ a tough – let’s call it a promise from Occupy2026 – to fulfill. The organization is intent on doing that, but promise it will be done by perfecting their previous strategies and working tightly with sister organizations that want to bring America out of the wilderness in which it has been wandering for the past dozen years.

Same Message, Different Time as Occupy Wall Street Protestors Return to Zuccotti Park

Activist Donna Stein, president of the New York City Friends of Clearwater and co-host of Eco-Logic on WBAI captured the spirt from 15 years ago in her statement to Claude Solnik in an AM NY article.

“It was a wonderful community of people covering many ages,” Stein, who had been part of the environmental solidarity working group, added. “Not everybody agreed on every issue. It was interracial, inter-generational.”

Author and activist Cryn Johannsen, one of the OWS spokespeople, assures the AM NY readers that community – not tribes, not silos – would enjoy that same experience.

“We will pull together the collective forces that will have feet-on-the-street as well as people-in-power, and they will be smoothly joined in an unstoppable force,” she said. “Failing that, America itself with fail.”

Saturday afternoon, 9/19, Zuccotti Park, Last Chance to shake our hands

“Most of the Occupy2026 celebrators have already headed back to their states and communities to start the work of building the Occupy of the future,” Jerry Ashton (that’s me) offered.

“There’s a T-Shirt there that has your name on it.”