"Today's Wall Street protests represent the left's <http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AmrKe6r1jlX1ApKBBBgvPJC1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFrM2g5 cm4zBG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzExBHNlYwNNZWRpYUFydGljbGVCb2R5QXNzZW1ibHk- ;_ylg=X3oDMTJqaXFnc3ExBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDYjcxZWRkYzUtY2VlNy 0zYzE0LThiMzEtMmQ1MTBiOTViMjQ4BHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdl;_ylv=0/SIG=145rqc nbb/EXP=1320073775/**http%3A/www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/10/occup y-wall-street-protests-spell-trouble-for-obama-in-2012.html> decoupling from Obama and the Democratic Party, something that the global nature of the movement will only reinforce. That doesn't mean the movement has a clear critique of unregulated capitalism yet, let alone a concrete agenda for reform, but it means that the left finally is forcing those questions onto the public agenda. By confronting Wall Street, it is creating the populist energy that Obama himself has not."
http://news.yahoo.com/occupy-protests-seismic-effect-062600703.html I still don't know what to make of the "occupy" movement, but I thought this was interesting. "This past weekend, in 900 cities across the world, tens of thousands <http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AvAaMYSijq.3yO4iij0R.MG1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFqMDgx ZXM0BG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ-- ;_ylg=X3oDMTJqaXFnc3ExBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDYjcxZWRkYzUtY2VlNy 0zYzE0LThiMzEtMmQ1MTBiOTViMjQ4BHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdl;_ylv=0/SIG=1490in bhd/EXP=1320073775/**http%3A/www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/15/rome- protests-black-bloc-militants-turn-occupy-protests-violent.html> demonstrated against unregulated capitalism." The link in the sentence above leads to an article about anarchists taking over the protests in Rome. Whatever the occupy movement represents, it is tapping into something that activates a grass roots constituency. Like the tea party in its roots days, this is a movement that cannot be ignored. Chris -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
