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In reply to the discussion: Do you understand why Occupy was infiltrated and broken up? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)what OWS was and is all about. Not a clue.
I'll give you one clue. OWS did not have 'long term goals for their particular protest. They planned for only a TWO WEEK occupation AT MOST, and only in NY.
They so exceeded those goals when the occupation lasted a day more than two weeks and could have gone home completely victorious as all of their goals were more than accomplished by them.
That was it, at the most, two weeks and then go home.
But instead, more and more people joined them, the Unions, Veterans, older people, teachers, students, firemen, it just kept growing. Then the even more amazing thing happened, it spread to Chicago (they are still doing incredible work there, and LA and Oakland and Colorado, Maine, NJ, Texas etc and then across the ocean, to London, Dublin, Paris, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, African nations and China.
It was AMAZING. So instead of going home after two weeks, their demonstrations grew bigger and bigger. And in the Fall of that Year one of the first INCREDIBLE GLOBAL OWS protest which was connected by the Social Media across the Globe took place. Italy, Spain, the music, the speeches were unbelievable, India, Egypt, Tunisa, everwhere and we could see it all, the people from all over the world, millions of them, all exposing Wall St corruption.
So they couldn't just go home after two weeks, the world wouldn't let them.
And now there is an actual Global People's movement in place, joining the the original Occupiers, the Indignados in Spain, who, among others, inspired OWS and they are ready to continue as all Social Justice Movements have in the past, to bring awareness of the corruption of Corporate Rule around the world.
When your goal is set at two weeks and one city, and your spread around the globe and are still going strong two years later, that is not just success, it is spectacular success.
They are working on issues now that badly needed attention, saving people's homes from foreclosure, very successful so far, building homes for the homeless, and one of their best recent projects has been their Student Loan Forgiveness program which is brllliant.
No, you don't know the answers to the questions you asked, you would have had to know the answer to 'what was their goal' first, which you did not.