Reply #1: Solidarity. I better google to see what is happening in Boston.

[No Elephants]

Lest we forget, though, the original plans were for a long term occupation of Washington, D.C., starting in Freedom Square on October 6, 2011, which I believe was the tenth anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan. That was a very well planned occupation, with a website set up well in advance, etc.

I don't remember the names of everyone involved, but I do remember Chris Hedgs.

The OWS people jumped the gun by a few weeks, starting in September. However, leaders of the D.C. occupation took it in stride and Hedges made an appearance at OWS in Manhattan. IIRC, he even got arrested there.

We will never know how things would have gone if the Wall Streeters had allowed the D.C.ers to take the lead. Maybe nothing, maybe something even better. We will never know how history was altered.