Thomas Frank: Why Occupy failed and how it's more like the Tea Party than anyone wants to admit

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88. The tealiban are funded by the Koch brothers. Occupy is a populist movement.

Occupy Sandy Does Not Signify Occupy Wall Street Has Found ‘New Purpose’

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The media as a collective has never understood the Occupy movement.

From November 2011 to the movement’s one-year anniversary, various outlets pronounced the movement dead. The pronouncements ignored the various reasons why the movement appeared to be dead, such as less media coverage and the fact that it has never had a national organization at the top. It has always been decentralized.

To pronounce it dead is to say that all the small groups spread out through the nation are no longer organizing. Now, with the success of Occupy Sandy, the media is drawing conclusions about the Occupy movement that again shows it does not understand this social movement.