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Occupy Underground

hay rick

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3. The media believes its own stories. That's why we love them.

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2013, 08:46 PM

May 2013

They told the story that Occupy was about camping out and being a public nuisance. The police cleaned that mess up! End of story.

The really disruptive public nuisance was the idea that "we are the 99%." That idea is camping out in a lot more American brains now and it provides a call to action that doesn't always require tents. Thank you, Occupy.

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While Media Looks for Encampments, Occupy Helps Build the Popular Resistance [View all] limpyhobbler May 2013 OP

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