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Originally Posted by Muta
No, they have a reason for protesting (atleast initially). The message is just really poorly articulated, and they didn't do themselves any favours by not clariyfing it over the last month.
Whether you think they're 'ego-driven, self-centered [and] grandstanding' is pretty much irrelevant; they started protesting because of the movement inspired in New York, which was about income inequality and the gap that continues to widen (and other things like crony capitalism, excessive big government intervention, etc).
They don't have a clear message. They need one. However, I don't think it's smart to discredit them in the same way you think Ozy's over-crediting them (atleast initally why they started protesting, which might have seemed somewhat legitimate). But we can definitely all agree that now, they have no message, they are not willing to take that responsibility on, and their gig is up.
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But you understand that the demands that were published by occupy Vancouver and all of the jingoism that Occupy Calgary and to an extent Canada is spouting out is really related to the American problems and not the Canadian problems.
You can't protest the lack of banking regulations in a country that had banking regulations that saved this country from a lot of the problems that the States had. For example.
If they would have said, we're protesting for OWS, then that would make sense, but that didn't even get articulated.