What ever happened to Occupy Wall Street?
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It died because most supporters were assholes. I do not know about other places but I am so happy that its gone here in London. The movement itself and its underlying reasons were brilliant and it intrigued me the problem was its support group. Here in London, all they did was setup tents in public places, smoked weed and shit in parks and pretty much destroyed wherever they went. I remember them camping in Finsbury square in the City of London in front of Bloomberg offices for about 9 months or so. Within a month you could smell shit and weed from around the corner. They had no placards and nothing to say really. They were just boozing around and generally destroying the place. When they were finally forced out they left a big mess. It took the council months to clean up the place and make it into a usable park again. If you're going to go around and destroy much valued public property, then you are not going to get my support. Good riddance I'd say.
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Occupy as a movement is still going strong, at least in Canada. I live in South-Western Ontario and I have many friends who are very involved in the movement which orchestrates many protests, honorary marches and tries to educate the public on why they are opposed to capitalism in general.
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What should've happened to it, Is what happened to it. Like the red square movement, they only succeeded in pissing off the people they were trying to gain support from.
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Since it was a largely leaderless movement, it is not surprising that people went their different ways. Some moved on, got organized and did a lot of things to help with Hurricane Sandy Relief. http://occupysandy.net/
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Actually, some of the Eugene occupy people in Oregon started a free medical clinic every Sunday that's still running. Don't know much about it but I still see it from time to time
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In New York City, a lot of folks went into Occupy Sandy - for hurricane relief - after that hit. Libraries, kitchens, etc. was pretty helpful out on the shore when services went out. A lot of the Occupy movement move into different advocacy organizations. Folks got tired of being spied on by the NYPD and other folks. So in that sense, the police pressure worked to destroy the movement.
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"I was always told to "never complain about a problem without offering a solution." They didn't follow that advice. If they were demanding a higher minimum wage, better benefits, lower salaries for executives, more fair business practices, ect, it might have stuck. It also lost credibility when people who had vague disagreements with capitalism joined in. Now, it consisted of people who opposed the wealth gap, AND people who wanted other things entirely. Many of them didn't make sense. "We need an INDIGENOUS economy. Before the white man showed up, we ain't have none of these problems." Lasty, as much as I hate cliches, the "college liberal hippies," as explained on South Park, made up a large part of the movement but couldn't stay forever "
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It was a catalyst movement that was based off of a popular, yet vague, feeling among the public that there is vast wealth disparity in the U.S. It never managed to focus the feelings into any actionable ideas though. It seemed reasonable and to have the potential to actually change things when it first started. You can't go on without any progress and maintain that momentum and impact. A lot of the louder and more outlandish far left people who became faces of the movement didn't really help its credibility among the mainstream public.
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It was subverted by crackpots and hippies who thought they could bring in their personal cause into the movement.
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