From Occupy to Ferguson: The two movements are more connected than you think

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1. "...but these protests are disruptive."........

I said all along when people were talking about the failures of both the Wisconsin protests AND the Occupy protests, that it wasn't over. I fully expected another one of these manifestations of the dialectic of oppression engendering it's resistance. I also predicted that any new movement after Occupy would be MORE militant than Occupy.

Furthermore, I will predict right now that the movement against police violence won't be the last of it. Although I don't expect it to fade out like Occupy, simply because police violence against people of color is a daily occurrence, I DO expect it to morph into something more encompassing. A "blend" if you will of the Occupy economic message with the systemic oppression and anti-violence against black folks message of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. The next step after that will be to bring in what's left of the organized working class supporting both of these VERY interconnected issues. At that point, we have the potential of REAL change happening.