really offsets
I mean it's its its interesting cuz I
think that they're valid criticisms of
Occupy Wall Street certainly but then
it's also like
you know part of the reason to fizzled
out was because the
you know the the protesters were like
mode out of their protests owned by the
police with
helicopters and noise machines and
batons
that you know that duh those sort of
things plays a role Africa I
effort I forgot who said it but yeah I
someone said it and
someone said and to me it's its perfect
way to stay Occupy Wall Street in fizzle
out
they were crushed in one big they were
driven out
yeah no i i but I and I think that they
still and I think though that that's
it's not at all an excuse
from any mistakes Occupy Wall Street may
or may not have made but
you know when you think about it after
the financial crisis Occupy Wall Street
was the first major social movement in
america
that actually was addressing the issue
right like the tea the tea party went
through this economic crisis in the
first thing they want is they were was
those damn unions we need to get rid of
them
like the Tea Party was this complete non
sequitur
that had nothing to do with the causes
%uh the crisis
and the Tea Party it came a little bit
later became in 2011 and
you finally had a movement that was
actually talking
and pushing on what the actual issues
were
and I you know and i also I don't know I
think that the
able to talk about lack of focus but I
think they brought Wall Street for
option they brought income inequality I
think they did bring those things the
table
and that's always gonna be to occupy
spread and the stuff to do in a
grassroots level like protecting people
from
you know home foreclosures are you if if
we're going to even go yeah on just the
Occupy Wall Street right itself i mean
that move minutes it
it created multiple grassroots movements
from occupy I homes to a
to occupy sandy which was amazingly
occupy sandy in New York City just so
folks now
outside New York after superstorm sandy
occupy sandy was more affective
at delivering a I need to people
helping people who were suffering from
having their homes destroyed or whatever
said he's not down some for NYPD
cooperated happily with them because
they were just so
effective in some in some parts of the
Rockaways and Staten Island
they will literally be only about since
the relief even bothering to help those
people there
absolutely they were there on the scene
before a lot of the Bajur
you know marquee organizations like the
the red cross
and and so and I was you go even further
also without rolling Jubilee strike debt
after I late date that belief if they
hit over a million dollars in debt
just gone from our all these people in I
think they chose randomly at the other
being
a group of people ing up Kentucky their
medical debt is clear now is that was
clear and I remember you know 7
conversation with a friend
at the beginning the Occupy protests I
said
at time I said however this turns out
this is like a greenhouse this isn't
incubator
and a million you know lot of things
have come out with us that wall
you know fail and a lot of things that
come out this that will succeed
because the point of this is that people
are meeting
and they have the right basic
understanding what's going on and great
ideas and movements and practices and
businesses and
and social movements is all sorts things
are gonna come out a bit like that and
the have-nots sense
I think it's a huge success
