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Fire Walk With Me

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6. On Mayday in Los Angeles, the four Caravans joined another huge march at Pershing Square

Reply to Chathamization (Reply #5)

Tue May 29, 2012, 12:53 AM

May 2012

and had a General Assembly of 2-5,000 people (I'm not really good at guessing that sort of thing, but it was Huge, with well over 1,000 Occupiers from around the city). It was wonderful, bi-lingual, extremely positive, lots of cheering, lots of joining-in...and the next GA we had that week? Not a single new person was there. Not one.

A people-powered movement requires people to show up and participate. I don't know what it's going to take. People have to want change enough to join and create it.

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"What happened to the Occupy movement?" by Arun Gupta at Aljazeera [View all] applegrove May 2012 OP

Looks like it is finished n/t doc03 May 2012 #1

No way. Occupy really woke many people up. People liked that feeling of being able to think for applegrove May 2012 #2

Today, Occupy Fights Foreclosures helped a family with a special needs daughter to Fire Walk With Me May 2012 #3

Lol, they wish. They sure tried but failed, thankfully. If anything it is growing. Across sabrina 1 Jun 2012 #11

It took some forty years for the CIA and the truedelphi May 2012 #4

Occupy was never that big Chathamization May 2012 #5

On Mayday in Los Angeles, the four Caravans joined another huge march at Pershing Square Fire Walk With Me May 2012 #6

Well, you're right Chathamization May 2012 #7

What city do you live in? U4ikLefty May 2012 #8

Washington, DC N/T Chathamization May 2012 #9

For me, General Assemblies are the problem --> daaron Jun 2012 #10

The issue is that you need some form of GA for Occupy to work. What would you suggest? Leopolds Ghost Jun 2012 #13

My suggestion is to show our gov't --> daaron Jun 2012 #14

There are many possibilities. Leopolds Ghost Jun 2012 #15

The Problem is Lack of Participation Chathamization Jun 2012 #16

Yes what really gets my goat are the groups that insist on imposing litmus tests on getting involved Leopolds Ghost Jun 2012 #17

Really? You know it is a Global Movement don't you? One of the biggest movements sabrina 1 Jun 2012 #12