Hope it works out okay for you tomorrow. Exciting but not...disruptive.
But I feel like the "Occupy" element of the protest is just not sustainable, and not necessarily good, either, for a number of reasons (safety, disrupting small business -- the things you mentioned). At this point they don't really need it anymore, so I hope they don't try to find a different area to Occupy.
I agree. I think the danger right now is that they are disrupting the wrong people. If it's really the corporate lobby and wealthy lobby they want to counter-act? Then shouldn't they find a way to attack that? I get that the Occupy Movement was meant to show an alternative way of living - living without greed, as a community, with communal sharing and discussion and caring (although unfortunately counter-acted by some protesters who were just pissed off and wanted their share - that's the problem with free speech, you sort of have to deal with the people you don't agree with too, which was also part of the movement). But...they need to try something else now, move to a new stage. I don't know what it is though, but I keep hoping someone will come up with something.
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Date: 2011-11-17 04:06 am (UTC)But I feel like the "Occupy" element of the protest is just not sustainable, and not necessarily good, either, for a number of reasons (safety, disrupting small business -- the things you mentioned). At this point they don't really need it anymore, so I hope they don't try to find a different area to Occupy.
I agree. I think the danger right now is that they are disrupting the wrong people. If it's really the corporate lobby and wealthy lobby they want to counter-act? Then shouldn't they find a way to attack that? I get that the Occupy Movement was meant to show an alternative way of living - living without greed, as a community, with communal sharing and discussion and caring (although unfortunately counter-acted by some protesters who were just pissed off and wanted their share - that's the problem with free speech, you sort of have to deal with the people you don't agree with too, which was also part of the movement). But...they need to try something else now, move to a new stage. I don't know what it is though, but I keep hoping someone will come up with something.