Caucus, a native American Indians word that means meeting, is a council organized by a political party in the smaller States of The USA. In those meetings, card-carrying members choose the US Presidential candidate. The voting procedure in the Caucus is different from the formal one adopted in the primary: in the Caucus citizen vote signing on a voting paper with the name of the candidate or showing hands. The vote is not secret and could lead to electoral rigging. In fact votes are collected and sent to the party headquarters.

The election campaign for the US President starts in Iowa Caucus. In the 99 county of Iowa there are 1700 caucus and those informal meetings are organized in public spaces, like schools and churches.

The Occupy Iowa Caucus Movement claims that both candidates are focused on the interest of rich people and that the US electoral system reflects this trend because of the huge amount of private funding.

“The presidential candidates – including President Barack Obama – are essentially representatives of the corporate agenda, not the people, because both political parties and their leadership are beholden to the same network of corporate campaign contributors, elite, wealthy donors, war profiteers, and army of big money lobbyists and special interest groups.  Our electoral system naturally reflects this reality and the resulting public policy outcomes of each election cycle predictably serve the interests of big banks and multinational corporations before the interests of everyday people, hardworking families, and the environment.  The left/right, liberal/conservative, Democrat/Republican dichotomy is a distraction from the real social conflict undergirding American society:  the 99 percent versus the 1 percent.”

This statement asserts that there is no a real differente between Democrat and Republican.

“For too long, the 99% have been silenced by Wall Street and greedy corporations while the 1% ruling elite have robbed us of our democracy, our dignity and our livelihood.”

These assertions are from the Occupy Iowa Caucus Movement official website: http://occupythecaucus.org/.

Instead, the video posted above is a declaration by the hacker group Anonymus, which distinguish itself from the Occupy Movement: Anonymus place itself on a more radical position, claiming for the boycott of the elections.

Susanna Gallini