re: #454 Obdicut

We’re going to protest Congress not doing enough by making it harder for them to work.

Yeah.

Without a strong, coherent message, the news story of the day on OWS is going to be what people perceive of them. And since they have a lot of confrontational people there, the news story is going to be about confrontation.

I’ve been having these fantasies where the Occupy Wall street thing still happens but everyone’s well-dressed and spends their time distributing literature about wage stagnation and how ripped off the middle and lower class is. Where they pool their money and rent a storefront near Wall Street and picket individual institutions with clear, direct allegations of wrongdoing.

It’s a nice fantasy.

I’m pretty sure there aren’t clear objectives for the movement for a reason. The protests themselves are the entire purpose and the goal is to keep them as active as possible.