Odd. My wife has been an Occupier (she can't actually do the camp-out thing, obviously) and she's talked to a lot of them, and she could give you a dozen off the top of her head. She has a Facebook community called Hell in a Hand Basket and most of what she posts there shows the reasons pretty clearly.
Whenever I've seen pictures of Occupy groups, there's always at least a few clear reason signs among the We Are The 99%.
On the other hand, I've also seen a number of articles saying that the lack of a message is a message in itself, that there are too many individual things to say and that having a single unified message also makes it easier for that message to be attacked rather than the base causes. This makes the overall message more "there's a LOT of problems that are hurting the majority of the population, you at the top know PERFECTLY WELL what they are, and we're sitting here until you've addressed enough of them that we no longer feel threatened."
I'm sympathetic to their cause. I can't be a part of it and I'd do it differently, but I am not able to commit huge chunks of time to any cause right now as I do in fact have a job (two of them) and need to keep doing them for the sake of my family.
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Date: 2011-12-09 12:43 pm (UTC)Whenever I've seen pictures of Occupy groups, there's always at least a few clear reason signs among the We Are The 99%.
On the other hand, I've also seen a number of articles saying that the lack of a message is a message in itself, that there are too many individual things to say and that having a single unified message also makes it easier for that message to be attacked rather than the base causes. This makes the overall message more "there's a LOT of problems that are hurting the majority of the population, you at the top know PERFECTLY WELL what they are, and we're sitting here until you've addressed enough of them that we no longer feel threatened."
I'm sympathetic to their cause. I can't be a part of it and I'd do it differently, but I am not able to commit huge chunks of time to any cause right now as I do in fact have a job (two of them) and need to keep doing them for the sake of my family.