"The Making of a ‘99% Spring’" ---- (Article mentions "Move On.org., Labor Unions and OWS)

[nashville_brook]

7. your point about Vietnam-era protest is one that i've been making to the group

that, the era's protests lasted for more then six years and created massive social change. the civil rughts protests ran for more than a decade, and changed our culture to the core.

now, imagine if both these movements requied that their partipants sleepover in a public park for the duration of the era. they would have limited involvement to a fraction of the people mobilized, and we'd still have "colored" drinking fountains.

the intragroup bias toward "principled camping" is stupidly high bar to set, and it self-selects for social outcasts...in our town that meant drug dealers, hobos, and seriously mentally ill people. we literally had a stabbing to deal with bc of one young man who was off his meds.