When Alison at Creekside first blogged about it, I was unimpressed with "Occupy Wall Street." I agreed with them and everything, but I saw a small group of lefties like me, speaking into microphones to the occasional acclaim of the tentative applause of the few hundred lefties gathered around, while a city of millions passed them by, completely oblivious and a nation of hundreds of millions continued even more completely oblivious, [... if that's possible!].
It would be over when the authorities decided it was over. Which would be a couple of days at most.
But it's still going on. And, of course, the US media, which will report on whenever a member of the right-wing chumps known as the "Koch Brothers Tea-Party" farts into a microphone, is doing its usual best to ignore or denigrate a genuine protest movement.
But where is the Tea Party?
Just some links:
http://radiopatriot.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/the-occupy-wall-street-effort-is-not-tea-party-eric-odom/
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/29-11
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109290009
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/29-7
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I to haven't been following too closely until I saw a little something on "politics and discontent" showing a video of Chris Hedges being interviewed on the street as the "occupiers" were marching. A later link to "Truth Dig" sums up his feelings quite appropriately, "You are either a rebel or a slave".
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