Neither Obama nor his logo have any rightful place next to the Occupy moniker, it seems contradictory and wrong. I'd add the Democratic Party to that too, sadly.
However, as much as I recoil at the juxtaposition mentioned above, I absolutely love that someone is actually putting energy into igniting a progressive resurgence in the Democratic Party.
We have the progressive caucus, which is ok but they're owned like the rest of them and not nearly feisty enough to hold the party hostage when they don't get their way (and that's what it apparently takes for anyone to pay any attention to the left).
The difference is the Tea Party was mostly astro-turf with huge organizational structure coming from corporate Koch revenue streams. And we operate in an uneven playing field dominated by the corporate-owned media who will show 10 tea partiers while ignoring 100,000 liberals in the street protesting.
Here's another organization few people have probably heard of (though I first read about it on DU):
http://www.99rise.org/
It looks to be mostly focused on campaign finance reform, which IMO is the exact right place to focus.
I support any effort for the left to get a seat at the table, so good luck to Occupy Democrats. And major kudos to her for the Birch Society and Koch research.
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