At Occupy L.A., no lock step or group think

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By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
October 29, 2011
As cigarette smoke and the scent of burning sage drifted over the crowd at Occupy L.A., a young protester took to the people's microphone to give a rousing recitation of the group's "points of solidarity."

The crowd echoed his words back at him.

"We are daring to imagine," 300 people chanted. "A new sociopolitical and economic alternative that offers greater possibility of equality."

The harmony was shattered by a woman shouting wildly. "Why don't we have a microphone? They don't want you to think, they want you to repeat!"

"We need to maintain solidarity!" a man in the crowd bellowed back.

more (pretty fair article)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-occupy-la-20111029,0,7726205.story