Dig the tents, folks. Love reading the signs—like primitive Tweets of revolution. Seeing you just lounge around the Green debating issues and strumming guitars is as cool as any of the (many so far) organized rallies and events.
Beautiful weekend for Occupying New Haven, no?
Activism-wise, I never was much of a joiner. My skills veer more towards indoor pageantry and letter-writing. Never needed there to be an organized struggle before I sounded off. Didn’t need out to be a social thing.
But the Occupy [insert place name here] movement is appealing. It involves mass gathering, but is less vindictive than, say, those anti-corporate demonstrations in the ‘80s where people blocked the entrances to big buildings rather than just contemplated their meaning.
Fraught with less violence than other forms of largescale physical protest, Occupy is more like camping or flash mobbing. Its the anti- capitalists’ answers to the tour of classy houses in Newport.
The rich are different than you and me. Discuss.