Hmmm?? Am i the only one who

Hmmm?? Am i the only one who still posts links and thinks we should still be discussing and learning from the Occupy Movement? Never much comment or observations from others after i leave my messages. Anyways here is another useful article from the excellent if eclectic and occasionally estoteric webside Alternet http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/155227/the_99_movement_has_something_for_everyone_–_but_is_it_occupy/?page=entire Occupy was selected as 2011 word of the year. The article describes a development within the Occupy Movement to usurp 99% into another brand-name but this time to co-opt the protests into mainstream Democratic Party politics particularly by MoveOn, a top-down organisation without a democratic structure that allows the members to vote on who the leadership will be or how decisions are made, let alone have serious input into the positions. Bill Dobbs of Occupy Wall Street, said that “Groups like MoveOn can walk into any Occupy movement and engage in the discussions, but we can’t participate in their strategy discussions.” [once again the example of our open WSM democracy demonstrates how different we are to other political organisations in that we invite participation in debate but reserve actual decision-making for the Party for party-members only,  in a very visible and transparent process and can be used in our interaction with Occupy] “The 99% Movement employs the ideas and language of Occupy Wall Street towards ends diametrically opposed to it: support for Democratic Party candidates up to and including President Obama. Protesting corporations but not the politicians who work hand in hand with them is a crafty way to redirect Occupy’s energy away from the Democratic Party, which is as much an object of Occupy Wall Street’s ire as the Republicans… For Occupy, the danger of being sucked into the Democratic Party as its purpose becomes supporting a party that is in the pocket of Wall Street, instead of ending the tyranny of Wall Street.” But perhaps some members and sympathisers now consider it too late for the WSM to even ever so slightly influence the Occupy Movement, and that maybe Occupy itself has become passe.