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Occupy Wall Street: What Happened?
Posted: 09/10/2012 3:33 pm Updated: 09/16/2012 4:40 pm


By the time the police kicked the protesters out of Zuccotti Park last November, the Occupy Wall Street movement had already split into at least two distinct factions. There were the mostly college educated activists and intellectuals who essentially made up the government of the park, and the drifters who slept in the park and relied on donations mostly allocated by the first group for food, clothes and other basic necessities.

After the eviction, some members of the first group tried to portray the raid as an unintended gift from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the NYPD to the movement. The 22,000 square-feet village of tents and tarps had garnered incredible attention and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, but maintaining the space had come with significant challenges. In addition to feeding, clothing, and caring for the hundreds of people living there, the activists had to contend with the hazards of drug use and mental illness, reports of crime and the imminent approach of winter. Some saw the eviction as an opportunity to focus more of their energy on bigger things, like pushing for reforms to the financial system and to the United States government.

Members of the second group, many of whom had lived on the streets long before anyone pitched a tent in the name of “the 99 percent,” went in search of a new place to stay. Most eventually disappeared from the scene, but a few hung on, trying to find a spot where they could continue to live together in solidarity with the larger movement and in accordance with its communal values. For a time they found shelter in churches around Manhattan, but by the end of two months they had worn out their welcome. Their clergy hosts, many of whom had been happy to speak up for the protesters when they did not have to deal with them on a daily basis, balked at the difficulties of providing free housing to an unorganized group of indigents and turned them back out onto the streets............................>>>>...................>>>>........................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/occupy-wall-street_n_1871661.html

Ask BuckStrider - he'll tell you this is old news and we should move on.

Why don't y'all fade away? Have another Christmas boycott at Crossgates- lol.

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Ask BuckStrider - he'll tell you this is old news and we should move on.

The 'old news' is that Zuccotti Park isn't publicly owned...So, yeah, you are about a year late with that info.

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The 'old news' is that Zuccotti Park isn't publicly owned...So, yeah, you are about a year late with that info.

If I buy you a tank of gas, will you get on your bike and ride away?

40-something smarta$$ wannabe.

What happened to Occupy Wall Street ???     George Soros and the Leftist Neo-Liberal "deep pockets" are too busy spending money to reelect Mr. Obama and the Pelozzipalooza Crowd to send money to a bunch of hippies who want to hang out in public parks and get high.

what happened was it got it's 15 minutes and squandered it.... They wasted their time camping out. smoking dope, and vandalizing nearby public areas and private businesses

Occupy didn't move the public opinion polls like they were designed to.  The Buffett tax, Occupy Wall St., and all the class warfare rhetoric Obama was using didn't work.  This was the counter Tea Party, but it didn't work.  Occupy was actually becoming a liability to the democrat left, so the government media and plutocrats that funded it made it go away.

they were looking to get someone else's paycheck into their pockets......

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If I buy you a tank of gas, will you get on your bike and ride away?

40-something smarta$$ wannabe.

Will take a bit more than a mere tank of gas...

I will consider a Stage 3 upgrade kit from IPD for my Volvo

Since the Occupy Wall Street group was so upset about the wealthy and privileged 1% -- how come they didn't occupy Malibu or Beverly Hills or one of the enclaves of the Hollywood elites ????????????  I am sure that Barbra Steisand would have enjoyed 1,000 smelly, pot-smoking neo-hippies camped out on her front lawn.

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Since the Occupy Wall Street group was so upset about the wealthy and privileged 1% -- how come they didn't occupy Malibu or Beverly Hills or one of the enclaves of the Hollywood elites ????????????  I am sure that Barbra Steisand would have enjoyed 1,000 smelly, pot-smoking neo-hippies camped out on her front lawn.

Well actually, DV, and I think you will have to agree, they really should be occupying downtown Schenectady and Proctors.   Gold ceiling and a lavish banquet hall for the rich, paid for by the taxpayers.   And stealing from the homeowners, and tax seizure of their homes when they can't afford to pay the taxes of Proctors and the downtown politically connected and wealthy.   You DO agree, don't you?

Occupy went the way of the Tea Party of course. See the good people in the main parties' i.e. the original occupiers and tea partiers get attention with solid ideals, morals and actual good will towards our country, then the big money comes in, corrupts the movement and folds it into the corporate scam that is our two party system. The dems killed Occupy, like the Reps killed the tea party, and alas we have two candidates that agree on almost everything running for president. Pretty funny to here people taking shots at occupy or the tea party when in reality as long as they are dumb enough to keep voting dem or rep, these movements may be the only chance for this country to regain it's success.