In a clear provocation of the police, occupiers for some bizarre reason decided to bring in sleeping bags to Zuccotti Park late night Feb. 28, 2012. This action, according to news from twitter, resulted in 10 people being arrested few hours later on Feb 29th. But what was the point of it? Do some people get off on being in handcuffs? Really, if you're into kink, can't you do that privately, instead of having the cops do it for you? In the beginning, street actions that led to confrontation with the police got media attention. So yes, it was necessary in the beginning. But as time goes on, Occupy needs to evolve, and this is something its had trouble doing.
On a more serious note, occupy should be rallying itself behind causes that the public cares about. Nader has suggested that they support a minimum wage increase, to keep the minimum wage up with inflation. This is some a big percentage of the public could support. Or there are other causes to do with labor, environmentalism, etc, that yes, the public could and would support activists on. But randomly picking fights with cops? What nonsense is this? Occupy is squandering its chance to have a big impact on elections.
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