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0rnery
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How is it the Tea Party has been so successful without all the violence, anarchy and arrests? Is anybody here actually proud of these antics (“diversity of tactics”)?

Whether this (bowel) movement continues or not, doesn't really seem to matter. Might consider actually having a plan next time around...
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Why are you associating May Day with OWS? I've seen a lot of attempts to do so, but they baffle me; May Day is for anarchists.
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I thought May Day was for communists and the labor movement.
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Yeah, it was. In the early 1900s, May Day was all about communism and the rise of the proletariat. About three decades ago, it got seized by the anarchists. While there may be a small intersection between either of those groups' interests and OWS, I think any OWS "involvement" in May Day protests would be due purely to such an incidental intersection; there's not any obvious ideological linkage between the two.
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Occupy Wall Street’s May Day Strike: a March for Relevance

Five months after the movement's birthplace was raided, Occupy Wall Street planned marches across the country on May 1, also known as International Workers' Day.
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I work for Rutgers. Rutgers had a pretty active Occupy presence (we're only an hour from Zuccoti Park.) and there wasn't a word about May Day here.

We'll see how the summer goes.
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It's worth noting that any coverage from the Post or the Beast is going to make up negative crap about OWS. They hate it, for reasons I've never completely understood.
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quote:
Originally posted by 0rnery:
How is it the Tea Party has been so successful without all the violence, anarchy and arrests?
It has a lot better funding?
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That's the problem when you exclude the 1 percent; you lose 90 percent of the money. [Smile]
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One of the single highest priorities of the Occupy movement has been to resist co-option from other entities. It has been largely successful at this, but naturally that has cost it financial support and media coverage.
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