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Monday, September 17, 2012

1 Year On, Occupy Is In Disarray; Spirit Lives On

Occupy Wall Street began to disintegrate in rapid fashion last winter, when the weekly meetings in New York City devolved into a spectacle of fistfights and vicious arguments.

Punches were thrown and objects were hurled at moderators' heads. Protesters accused each other of being patriarchal and racist and domineering. Nobody could agree on anything and nobody was in charge. The moderators went on strike and refused to show up, followed in quick succession by the people who kept meeting minutes. And then the meetings stopped altogether.

In the city where the movement was born, Occupy was falling apart.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well its not like they got jobs or anything.

Anonymous said...

they're sooo much better off, now.