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Originally Posted by valo403
There's a difference between apathy and finding this protest to be ridiculous. These people are largely just hanging out, they aren't doing anything constructive. They're literally just sitting in a public space. Quite the accomplishment. The only people being impacted are those who live in the area and now have to deal with the trouble of negotiating this village to get themselves to work and back, unless of course you go to work before 9 since these warriors on the front line like to sleep in.
I'm all for reform, I think it's needed and selfishly it would be beneficial for my career, but this camp out is ridiculous and achieves nothing.
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Largely just hanging out couldn't be further from the truth. They have setup a functioning camp within the park with designated areas for signage, kitchen, first aid, sleeping area, etc. They have a schedule for events through out the day, be it general assembly, marching to other venues to demonstrate, holding open forums, and the like. Pretty good organization for 'just hanging out'.
Also, are they really achieving nothing? Just merely referring to a point in your post where you discuss people in the area having increased difficulty of navigating the area. This, I'm sure is spawning complaints as people who go through this tell co-workers. This in turn spreads awareness of the movement as some people who hear their co-worker complain probably heads to the Internet to research what is going on. This then leads to conversation as that person heads out to drinks with friends and brings up the subject to discuss. This ultimately leads to the underlying point of all this, and all the other #occupy movements popping up in other cities - If anything, what needs to happen is discussion about the issue. As more and more people talk about this the more chance we have of bringing about change to a system which clearly needs it.