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Tansy_Gold

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54. But your answer is very different

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:42 AM

Sep 2012

bread_and_roses wrote: "I don't see "Occupy" itself as a "movement." I saw it as a protest and a demand. A spark. Sometimes it takes a lot of sparks before the fire gets going."

That's a much more reasonable observation than to say OWS is "We are the 99%." You're not calling OWS a movement, where others specifically are.

I don't think it's a movement either. But if it's not, then what is it? And why are people calling it a movement?

My duty calls, too, a pathetic day job that just barely pays the bills. But hey, it does that.

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