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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
People say that these protests are nothing like the sixties, but in truth they are exactly like the sixties, they are made up of people that don't want to do the un glamorous grunt work of affecting political change, endless days and nights working on campaigns with no reward, lots of donations to various movements, membership to a party.
These 'protests' are in reality lazy and uncommitted to change, change comes through work, not screwing around and having fun at what is essentially a crusties party.
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They're dissimilar from the 60's because those protests had numbers whereas these are still peripheral curiousities relative to the total population base.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/hardhats/kent.html
In the early 80's, there were single weekend protests numbering 250,000 and more in Europe calling for unilateral disarmament by America as a goodwill gesture to the Soviet Union. A terminally stupid idea but big numbers.
Occupy Wall St. needs a different strategy. The Business Section of the Globe & Mail offers some serious tips:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...rticle2216900/
And Branding Occupy Wall St.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...rticle2216298/
If you were to ask me - and you aren't - I would call for people to travel across country to big, single day protest events . . . . say simultaneous marches on Wall St. and on the Mall in Washington, thereby creating the spectacle of numbers instead of the current nickel and dime approach.
The movement is starting to get murdered on the PR front with the demonstratable "dirty hippy" accusation by local governments tired of them destroying public parks . . . . and dropping the $40,000 cost accusation was brilliant by the City of Calgary.
Cowperson