Occupy Oakland damages itself more than ports

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115. You misunderstand the structures and focus of OWS

You think of it as just one entity when it is many entities-- Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Boston, Occupy Albany. While they are all called Occupy and have similar messages, each is tailored to their own Local-- kind of like union halls only there is not a "national" entity telling them what to do, making them conform to any rules. Local Occupys decide through their GAs what their focus or most important issues are and how they wish to address them. In one place it may be failing infrastructure they wish to highlight, another may be widespread foreclosures, or diminishing public space, or police brutality/homicide being tolerated by the TPTB in certain sections of town, or a plant closure, or ridiculous hikes in tuition costs at a state university, or a hospital closure, or any of the signs and symptoms of wealth disparity, government collusion with the 1%, etc. Occupying public spaces in town squares by Town Halls and Big Banks were just to get their attention. We are Here and WE are not Going Away. The 99% were putting TPTB On Notice. Apparently, they got their attention.

If you wish to influence what your local Occupy does, I suggest you attend a GA. If you wish to influence what a different town or state's Occupy does... lots of luck unless you relocate. That is out of your sphere of influence.