The biggest victory that has been achieved so far is the amount of attention the protests have been getting, which precisely serves to get people to focus on something besides the mainstream media's regurgitating of politicians' and bigwig types' diversionary tactics.
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Honestly, I'm not hearing much
positive from any media outlet, and this includes my beloved NPR (although they're a little less hateful about it than the mainstream media).
The way I heard about everything was via Facebook, blogs, and people talking about it. At first, I was like a lot of you and I was all "well this is kind of stupid."
But then I saw
union pilots occupying alongside with the kids. And then
nurses joined up, too. Sure, they're union, and the union has it's own (often greedy) agenda, but it's interesting to see more than "just unemployed kids without a message" show up and protest. Say whatever you want, but these trained professionals who actually had experience out there are standing alongside the youth.
I think the message is pretty clear. "The other 99%" hits it home for me.
I wanted to go to our local protests, but I won't go alone, and after asking Chris about it, I'm pretty sure we won't go. I'm curious at the very least. I want to see just what kind of people are down there and how they're conveying a very important message.
There's nowhere I can't reach.