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Occupy Underground

starroute

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1. It's a Purloined Letter kind of situation

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2013, 07:24 PM

May 2013

"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.

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While Media Looks for Encampments, Occupy Helps Build the Popular Resistance [View all] limpyhobbler May 2013 OP

It's a Purloined Letter kind of situation starroute May 2013 #1

As far as I can tell Occupy is just infused into all the social movements. limpyhobbler May 2013 #2

The media believes its own stories. That's why we love them. hay rick May 2013 #3

Exactly. The unions are standing up, unions are forming, bad conditions being challenged. Fire Walk With Me May 2013 #4

Like all other Social Justice movements throughout history, OWS got the ball rolling in a very big sabrina 1 May 2013 #5