Wanda June
Member
See, this is the whole problem. The OWS movement does have a lot of good ideas, but to get the general public's acceptance they have to get the general public's sympathy and understanding.Of course civil disobedience creeps into these kinds of groups, but hey, at least we got people to PAY ATTENTION. Part of organizing IS agitating people enough to do something about it (vote, write your elected officials, educate others, etc.) Nobody wants to hear someone just complain. People need to act.
The average person will not, and never will be, sympathetic to someone who closes down his highway on-ramp at rush hour, bangs on drums late into the night and turns a public park into a pig sty. You have heard of Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals". Read it.