While Media Looks for Encampments, Occupy Helps Build the Popular Resistance

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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers - Dissident Voice, May 3rd, 2013

Yesterday, a media outlet contacted us to be on a show about how Occupy had “fizzled coming into this year’s May 1”. The media keeps looking for encampments or last year’s protests and is missing how popular resistance is growing and demonstrating all over the country.

This year there were actions in many cities on May Day. On Occupy Washington, DC we have reports from New York, NY, Denver, CO, Portland, OR and Richmond, VA as a few examples among many.

Allison Kilkenny, the movement writer for the Nation, got it right when she wrote, “Now is actually the time when the most exciting grassroots workers’ actions are taking place.” She points to the low-wage worker, fast food andnon-unionized workers actions as examples. As you will see in this weekly report there are many more examples of the growing popular resistance.

Kilkenny also points out that the FBI counter-terrorism unit in Washington State remains concerned and was interviewing activists about their plans for May Day. In the end, in Seattle, there was a mass peaceful march on immigration and an anti-capitalist march marred by police violence and property destruction.
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1. It's a Purloined Letter kind of situation

"Occupy" is hiding in plain sight among all the other protest and community empowerment movements that have broken out in the past year. But the media is too dumb to identity it if it doesn't have tents and dirty hippies.

[limpyhobbler]

2. As far as I can tell Occupy is just infused into all the social movements.

If you go to climate or fracking rallies, you see alot of the same people there.

Occupy wedged opened some extra space to talk bluntly about corporate capitalism and our tattered democracy.

[hay rick]

3. The media believes its own stories. That's why we love them.

They told the story that Occupy was about camping out and being a public nuisance. The police cleaned that mess up! End of story.

The really disruptive public nuisance was the idea that "we are the 99%." That idea is camping out in a lot more American brains now and it provides a call to action that doesn't always require tents. Thank you, Occupy.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Exactly. The unions are standing up, unions are forming, bad conditions being challenged.

This is Occupy, from within the workers versus outcry from the general public. It's working

[sabrina 1]

5. Like all other Social Justice movements throughout history, OWS got the ball rolling in a very big

way and have now moved on to a new phase.

The media apparently has missed the success of OWS in the courts, their work on saving people's homes, more than Congress has managed to do so far.

Their brilliant project for buying back student loans, teaching Congress if they were interested which they are not, how to do it.

Our media is a joke, nothing but a huge AD Campaign for one product or another, which is why in our house we don't bother watching it at all.