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OWS has managed to shift the focus of discussion on many economic issues. Where they fail is when they become fixated on "occupying" land (and attempting to build "new society" communities) which distract from their messaging and seperates them from the bulk of the "99 percent" that is trying to live in the "real" world.

Occupying turf is how they create space where they can direct media attention. Deprived of that ability the media pretty much ignores them, which they have managed to do despite the occupy movement doing tons of stuff over the winter. When the camps were broken down the cameras stopped showing up.

You can always tell when you are getting to them, they begin passing bills like hr347.

"May 1st, also known as International Workers' Day, is the annual commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, when Chicago police fired on workers during a General Strike for the eight-hour workday. In many countries, May 1st is observed as a holiday. But in the United States, despite the eventual success of the eight-hour-workday campaign, the holiday is not officially recognized. In spite of this, May Day is already a powerful date in the U.S. In 2006, immigrant's rights groups took to the streets in unprecedented numbers in a national "Day Without An Immigrant" - a general strike aimed at proving the economic power of immigrants in the U.S. At least one million people marched in Chicago and Los Angeles alone. Hundreds of thousands more marched throughout cities across the U.S."http://occupywallst.org/article/6-ways-to-get-ready-may-1st-general-strike/

Thanks for the thread, alp.