Just back from OccupyMN

[lydy]

Don't really know what to say. We were there a couple of hours. DDB took a bunch of pictures. My favorite sign, hands down, was "Serfs Up." Brilliant sign. The people we talked to seemed neither more nor less clued than I would have expected. It's early days, they haven't really cohered, and it's all up in the air. Which is as it should be at this stage in the game. It seems to be mostly real people, doing real things, which is cool, but messy and difficult to sum up.

There were two flavors of security there, not counting the OccupyMN people. One one was city cops, the other I'm not sure, but maybe the building security people? Don't really care. They hung out in groups of two to four, but they met people's eyes, smiled, and generally seemed calm and non-threatening. About ideal. I didn't go over and talk to them because I couldn't think of anything intelligent to say.

I don't know if this is just a spasm, or the next big thing. Time will tell. I have hopes. At least, they seem to be protesting the right things: the big money, the inequality in the distribution of wealth. That, to me, in really the central issue. So, I have hopes. But not much in the way of intelligent thoughts, unfortunately.

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[quadong.livejournal.com]

I hear there have been (or has been) protest(s) in Chicago sympathetic with Occupy Wall Street. But even being in a University neighborhood, I haven't heard anything about them.

[jiawen]

http://occupychi.org/

[quadong.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[jiawen]

No porbelm.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

The noisy crowd's home base is the foot of LaSalle St., across from the Merc one way, and the Fed the other.
The core is drum-bangers and costumers, but there is serious general and union sympathy.