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Originally Posted by Danzig
yes, i know there has been a group there. what i'm saying is the protesters need to band together, get a leader, actually find some cohesion. small groups in these cities can't do nearly as much as a large group in the one place that they can actually make some progress.
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Oh, I dunno. They have spread from 200 people in one park, to hundreds of thousands at over 200 sites internationally, in only two months.
The public conversation has been changed, by Occupy, from "deficit", to "income inequality".
They had a "Move Your Money" deal against the big banks, that resulted in the largest increase in credit union accounts in one month (400,000 new accounts), ever.
Bank of America reversed their decision to add the debit card $5 a month fee.
They were very supportive and helpful in recalling the Ohio Union busting legislation on the Nov. 8 ballot.
They had thousands of union people join them last Thursday at their "N17 Day of Action", resulting in a peaceful public demonstration of 15,000 - 20,000 walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. This was less than 24 hours after Bill O'Reilly declared Occupy "dead and gone" on his television show.
That success helped encourage the unions forming an "Occupy Congress action, where they hope to bus in thousands in just a couple weeks.
Occupy citizen journalists have exposed rampant police brutality in some locations.
A Wall Street lobbying group was just exposed by MSNBC to be very worried that Occupy might permanently harm Republicans and elected officials favorable to big banks, and they were asking for nearly a million to subvert and try and destroy the movement.
They want money and corruption out of capitalism and politics. How do you think this energized, angry voting block is going to do in this next election year? They will be quite active.
I think they are making fine progress in the political world, so far.
As I have said, the "mainstream media" hardly covers any of what Occupy is doing. It's all being done in the "new" media, and virtually instantaneously.
And they have a half-million in the bank, to buy new computers to replace the ones the City of New York destroyed and mangled while "keeping their property safe for pickup".