I think that's exactly it.. a social media enhanced movement. because of social media it doesn't have to be 'traditional' with a 'grass-roots' organization.. it can't be organized anyway since everyone is there for different reasons, every 'occupy' has it's own agenda..
It's going to be very hard to sustain, but as long as FoxNews unfairly and inaccurately vilifies them, as long as newt disparages them, as long as the police pepper-spray the innocent.. it will only grow... and in the end, even if it OWS were to 'die' today, there would be another tomorrow.. like I said, look at the Walker-recall, John Kasich's loss.. the outrage for what these Govs did started their own massive protests.. this is the new world, massive protests in different states, different cities with different agendas... "Occupy" has only 'organized' those singular protests and made them more impressive.. so in a way, they have already organized, because just the name 'occupy' instill fear...
so yeah, it is our own 'Arab spring' if you will.
well they did 'mic check' Obama, but their goal isn't in get rid of leaders and install crazy fanatics like Joe Walsh.. it's to let those who are already elected know the whole world is watching..
What is this "Arab Spring" comparison? I really don't get that. Is Obama = Mubarak?
I thought this was a good breakdown of OWS now that the camps are gone.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/283927/second-act-ows-charles-c-w-cookeWe are also told by the likes of Douglas Rushkoff in the New York Times and the ever-reliable Naomi Klein in The Nation that it is precisely because OWS is not a political party and has no policy platform that it is powerful. Unfortunately for OWS, this somewhat anarchic approach relies heavily upon organic growth for success, and such growth never came. Despite claims to the contrary, neither Zuccotti Park nor the other encampments across the country were meeting points for ordinary and concerned citizens spontaneously taking to the streets. Instead, they were a veritable convention of the usual suspects. Members of the professional Left congregated and were soon joined by a steady procession of young acolytes, whose disappointment that their expensive college educations had not shielded them from the vicissitudes of the dire economy roused them to join the witch-hunt. Then — less innocuously — the homeless, the mentally ill, and the downright criminal joined the unholy partnership. The necessary dramatis personae for a successful insurrection never showed up and, if Act II is to be more successful, Occupy is going to need to expand its base to include the general public — the sort of people who are now bustling past Zuccotti Park as they did before, as if nothing out of the ordinary had ever happened there.