Occupy LC
From the end of today's NYT article on Occupy Wall St, titled "Wall Street Occupiers, Protesting Till Whenever":
Sid Gurung, 22, a student at the New School who enlisted because he said he was “extremely disappointed and angry that I have no future,” would agree to no timetable. “Our task is important,” he said. “We could be here for months. Our opponents are giants.”
I realize that the Occupy Wall St movement isn't very happy with their media treatment, but here's their about statement from the movement's own web page:
Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.
Good to hear they have a tactic! And a goal? A friend checked in on the livestream last night in time to see them expressing their solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal.
I do respect the marchers, I share its underlying emotions, and I have friends who have participated in them, but collectively, the message I'm getting from the protests is something like this: