Damn, I wish the Occupy Movement hadn't petered out.

[Laurian]

Any chance of a revival? We really need some kind of presence in the streets to demonstrate our outrage at any and all who are pushing austerity for the 99% and no regulation of the 1%.

We also need some media on this issue. Even MSNBC seems to be wishy, washy these days.

I'm so discouraged.

[indepat]

1. The OWS movement didn't peter out: it was crushed by big brother who will blanche no

impertinence by a left-wing protest group voicing outrage over massive Wall Street fraud, abuse, and other RICO-like perfidies which big brother has chosen not to prosecute.

[Laurian]

8. True, and I recall hearing that the

Department of Homeland Security (part of the Obama Administration, no less) was complicit in stifling the movement. Another reason to be discouraged.

This Administration obviously does not want to hear our voices.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Not too late to revive it again!

[Cleita]

3. It's only spring. It probably went indoors for the winter.

Watch outrage to express itself during the warmer summer months.

[ladjf]

4. The structure of the movement wasn't made for long term actions. nt

[Phillip McCleod]

10. yep.. i think this is it.

my experiences with general assemblies in my city was uniformly *terrible*. eventually i stopped even showing up to the actions because the g.a. trolls always there, still pretending there was anything horizontal about the supposed 'democracy' of the organizational model when really it was tyranny of those with the most free time and the loudest mouth.

[ladjf]

13. There was no organic "end game". However, I think they had a good impact far beyond

what they might have thought. They did a great job of waking Americans up to the realization that the 1% was exploiting everyone else.

[Phillip McCleod]

15. don't get me wrong.. i had to go to lots of g.a.'s..

..before i became disenchanted with wiggly fingers democracy du jur.

[agent46]

5. Occupy - What's Next?

A couple hours ago, I posted this in GD. Only a few people responded and it sank like a rock, but I think it belongs as part of this discussion.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022649907

[tokenlib]

6. The collusion between local. state. and federal governments to suppress it...

..is something that truly scares me....

[randome]

19. After letting people camp out for months on public parks...

...why would you expect ANY municipality to let that go on forever?

[SoCalDem]

7. It was too diverse to succeed

The Tea Party succeeded because it was financed by secretive millionaires, and was focused on ONE thing.. getting democrats OUT of their congressional seats.. That was why is was started up in August, so they could stage their mayhem at the meetings/townhalls during a time when the DC media folks had little else to report on (DC "closes" every August)

Occupy was a meandering miasma that never really defined itself.

It's the same reason why most liberal parades/protests are not covered affirmatively.. There are too many "distractions" that media glombs onto.. the hippiechicks...the puppets...nudity...profanity.... the obvious provocateurs.. Issues co-mingled with every other issue..

Tea Party events were carefully staged and focused..

[KoKo]

11. SoCal...after all these years...you haven't done the "Alternative Media"

thing? Remember back when you and I figured out that "Blackwater" was a Contractor based in NC? Do you remember we broke that before the MSM did ...and we did it here on DU...

Remember?

[SoCalDem]

12. Those were the days, my friend

These days.....I'm not so sure of anymore..

Mainstreamers think they invented the wheel every time they "learn" something we have known for a decade

[KoKo]

9. Oh...it's Very Busy...you just don't hear about it in MSM-America.

There are other sources for Occupy News. If you support them you can find the news..with just a little digging.

[SidDithers]

14. It hasn't petered out. It's restin'. Pinin' for the fjords...nt

Sid

[Zorra]

16. We haven't gone anywhere. We're all still here.

We're all still waiting for you.

[MrSlayer]

17. It didn't "peter out", it was violently put down.

The owners didn't like that the message was catching on so they sent their soldier cops to smash the movement.

OWS is still around but the big demonstrations are done. Outlawed now in most places and will be met with outrageous violence otherwise.

America is pretty much done now. Most of it was an illusion anyway.

[kenny blankenship]

18. Turns out, very few people can hack pepper spray in their nasal cavilties

or rubber bullets to the skull. I know this applies to me.

I don't think they even had to roll out the Sonic Pain Ray.