Monday, November 21, 2011

Occupy Wall Street and the Importance of Creative Protest | Common Dreams

Occupy Wall Street and the Importance of Creative Protest | Common Dreams:

"Perhaps the single biggest factor that helped lead to the Occupy movement’s success in capturing the media and public’s attention has been its creativity. Novel protest strategies have served as OWS’s foundation since its first days. The very idea of occupying, and sleeping in, a park twenty-four hours a day was new and exciting."

Interesting perspective since I think the failure of the movement is a LACK of creativity. To me, a creative change would be to make it more like a recall movement than a protest movement. Gather support, throw the old government out, found a new Occupy party. Especially since evictions from parks, I see no creativity at all.

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