I have fucking had it with: "Sanders, which could potentially force Hillary Clinton further left..."

[sabrina 1]

258. That's what I thought. In my OP I posted the statement from OWS Organizers, the original organizers

It's not difficult to understand. OWS was not started by the people who ended up participating in the movement.

It was the brain child of some pretty savvy, experienced organizers who worked for three months on the plans to put their idea into action.

They started a website so people could see them working on the plans.

Their reason was that they realized regular, one day protests did not have much effect, such as the War protests, no matter how big they were, because the media ignored them.

So they based their idea on other movements where protesters occupied public space and stayed there for a period of time.

They were fascinating to watch as they planned the whole thing, covering ever possible issue that might arise.

They assumed the media would ignore them, so planned to cover it themselves.

They were being observed during the planning stages by the police etc. And when they did a trial run to find out how the police would react, they were able to include in their plans how to deal with the anticipated arrests, legal representation etc, documentation of every arrest which served them will in the long court battles they had later thousands of which were thrown out.

These are the same original organizers now entering a new phase which this endorsement all the more important.

They are playing the same role they played when they kicked off the first phase.

So this does nothing to contradict the philosophy of OWS. Once in motion, the idea will be handled by OWS groups who will decide in General Assemblies for themselves.

I did not think they would say that Bernie 'won't win'. These are not the kind of people who get into something not believing they CAN win.