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starroute

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3. Street theater has the potential for attracting more attention
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 10:32 PM
Mar 2012

It isn't just the media that's going meh. Even people who are interested in Occupy tend to tune out when it's the seventeenth identical story.

That was one thing about the 1960's. There were both the anti-war movement and the hippies, and by 1967 they'd hooked up together and turned into Yippies and were pulling off all sorts of colorful, what-will-they-think-of-next type events.

So as the weather warms, we need more street theater -- and the livelier and more entertaining the better. Grab the Americans by their need to be entertained and the media will follow.

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On the press...and occupy. [View all] nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 OP
A police riot is always good for that. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2012 #1
I intend to be there with a zoom nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #2
Street theater has the potential for attracting more attention starroute Mar 2012 #3
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