Occupy Christmas

Is now live.

It exhorts us to pay attention to what is important: Christmas with “No credit cards. No big business. Just Christmas”.

So what is “Just Christmas”? The anti-festive malcontents don’t propose to occupy Christmas with the birth of Jesus, joy to the world, the mystery of the Incarnation or anything so trite. The real meaning of Christmas, the logos of the layabouts is the damaging of corporate America:

Occupy Christmas is about turning the tables on Corporate American greed during the season when the 99% can cause the most economic damage and send the clearest message. Instead of spending your hard earned money with Corporate America this (or any) Christmas, why not make the conscious decision to fuel your own local economy? Why not refuse to use credit cards?

At least I have to give the Occupy movement credit for being non-inclusive: they could have called it “Occupy the Holiday Season”.