Posted on 06/26/2014 12:02:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Social media makes it easier and cheaper to build movements quickly – but bypassing the business of creating decision-making infrastructure means they can disappear just as fast.
Where have all the chanters gone; the gospel-minded Christians and the denouncers of ‘banksters’ and tyrants; the homeless and the indebted and unemployed who filled our urban squares in 2011-12, crying out such slogans as "We are the 99 percent" and "The people want the end of the regime"? Where are the leaderless revolutionaries who turned cities around the world upside down?
The simple answer is: they were dispersed. When the sometimes public parks were swept clear of troublemakers, many dispersed into a scatter of left-wing campaigns. Other activists now escort visitors around bare, fenced-off Zuccotti Park near Wall Street. In London, free bus tours with guides in top hats carry the curious around the City and Canary Wharf (“Make your very own ‘credit default swap’ and find out how to create money out of thin air!”).
One Occupy London stalwart, a sermon-on-the-mount Christian who negotiated with the Bishop of London at St Paul’s in 2011, emails me to say: “Many of us from Occupy London have ended up going all over the world. Our decisions to travel to the far-reaches were probably inspired by Occupy in many cases, although not all of us are working as activists in other countries. We remain in touch with each other, and support the hardcore group that are fighting fracking in the UK now … B returned to the USA, C is in Pakistan, D in Spain, E in Tunisia, F in Greece, others are in India, Africa, Thailand … I am currently living in Kuwait, teaching the young to be critical thinkers.”(continued)
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They’re working for the EPA.
EPA Told Employees To Stop Pooping In The Hallway http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3172481/posts
Where are the Occupy protesters now?
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Hired by ACORN.
That particular avatar gif, with the cartoon figure beating himself bloody, I have always found quite disturbing and saddening. Somebody who comments on The Blaze also uses this avatar gif. Different strokes for different folks, right? I’m sure somebody somewhere bursts out laughing when they see the same ‘bloody’ drawing.
Back in mom’s basement.
They voted in Mississippi
and this is one of the morphs of Occupy .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWLPwWqzsg
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu8_z4CMmnw
Are they gathering to protest at Hillary’s 1 percenter house?
IF they should ever involuntarily begin to grow out of their liberalism, they’ll think they’re going insane. That’s how deeply into their psyches it has gone.
“They disappeared because THEY WERE NOTHING BUT ASTROTURF ALL ALONG. When the Democrat/media complex realized that the general sociopathy exhibited at Occupy camps was hurting more than helping, they began ignoring the Occupiers. The whole movement was based (as with all things leftist) on emotion rather than intellect, so it crumbled rather easily.”
Living a dozen miles to the west, and knowing a couple of people working in the financial sector at the time, I must say that the original Occupy Wall Street was misunderstood all around. At first it was a group of laid-off white workers (probably left of center, due to the area) who had watched their jobs go overseas; it was taken over by leftist whackos of every stripe, and was relegated to pure theater. I remember when they used to get news coverage, and I remember when it stopped: Live interviews started showing “normal” people ranting against Obama. After that, the plug was pulled by the mainstream media.
As for where they are now, I’m sure many of them have joined the white exodus out of the NYC area - there isn’t much future here for people looking for decent-paying work.
Where are they?
Poopin’ in the halls at the EPA.
All donations were routed to accounts held in a bank they own.
I worked not 12 miles but three blocks to the east at the time. It did not begin with or ever include “laid-off white workers” - it began with professional protesters from Day 1.
That is your take on it; I remember the clean-cut Anglos standing outside the buildings from which they’d been laid off.
You are simply not telling the truth. Sorry, no way to sugarcoat that.
The ‘Occupy’ movement was funded - by that I mean protestors were paid from $300 to $500 per week - by:
The Communist Party US
The SEIU
American Socialist Party
Communist, socialists and (some) SEIU folks look just like ‘clean-cut Anglos’ - - - John Kerry, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bill Ayres are all socialists.
The Occupy movement has no use currently, it will be used against the next capitalist Republican president.
It’s a game the left plays...
Where are the Occuturds?
A couple of them recently shot two police officers in Las Vegas. And a conceal carry citizen in a WalMart store in that city.
When it was revealed that the shooters were occupy types, that’s when the media lost interest in the story.
How odd, since I just left the:
Or that it was largely Astroturf. The same issues exist today and perhaps for many they’ve worsened, yet the protestors are like so much smoke.
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