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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Are you comparing protesters trying to block the Brooklyn Bridge durng rush hour to the Thanksgiving day parade? LOL
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No. You mentioned a couple thousand people shouldn't be hard to cope with. I agreed. The TG parade is massively more amounts of people walking in (from parking to the parade) and out, like the protests are walking in to the park and over to another.
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Hard to believe that you continously complain about the news outlets then say what the news is talking about is a sign of progress? I mean if they arent covering it how can there be so much progress being made?
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Yes, it is clear the American news media is barely covering the two months of Occupy, in hundreds of towns in the US, unless there is violence. Yes, Occupy changed the conversation in the one example I gave and said, "it's a start".
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Income inequality isn't something that can be protested away. The thing is that most of what these people are protesting cant be changed through protesting. This isnt the civil right movement where things were black and white (pun again).
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The Civil Rights movement didn't ask for specific demands, specific laws - they demanded general ideals of equality, justice under the constitution, etc. Then the politicians created the appropriate laws and political process.
Same thing. The protest is saying that American citizens are fed up with corporate ownership of our government, of plutocracy. Before you change it, you identify it. We happen to have lawmakers that do NOT want to change a thing.