America. Is. Too. OBEDIENT.

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36. Occupy is keeping quite busy

And it's getting a good solid experience of community activism under its belt, so to speak. Every Occupy enclave is actively 'occupied' in their community now, engaging in replacing the broken system that doesn't work anymore with something that does. You should try to be more patient and understand that grassroots movements are organic things that must grow and change and grow roots so as to have a solid foundation. That all takes time which any study of history will show. Example: Women fought for the vote since long before the Civil War and they finally obtained it after WWI which was decades later. Blacks fought for their civil rights much longer but in the end they made it happen. Gays are still fighting for equality and they will get it too.

Occupy has also avowed they're against violence so their method of fighting back is not as glamorous as some sort of physical confrontation. And the magic of Occupy is that you can do it in every aspect of your life without having to be in the public eye. Like most massive popular movements work is done at the kitchen table in small groups and out of sight of the press.