Occupy 2012

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/occupy_2012_20111130/

The Occupy LA encampment didn’t look like an enterprise with a future. The skateboarders hurtling through the crowd, the soccer ball in the air, the tree houses, the young men and women sleeping in tents and in the open air made the place look more like a low-budget vacation at the beach than a protest movement.

Occupy LA was closed down early Wednesday morning by hundreds of Los Angeles police officers who arrested more than 200 in a comparatively peaceful operation that contrasted sharply with the conduct of cops in New York, UC Davis and other places.Its legacy is likely to be much more lasting than the abandoned tents and makeshift structures it left at Los Angeles city hall.

For in its two months of existence, Occupy LA showed a resiliency and purpose that could make some of its participants leaders in a great confrontation over economic injustice at the 2012 election. The same is true of the many Occupy movements, from Wall Street to Harvard Yard to Chicago, to Denver to Philadelphia, to Berkeley, Davis, UCLA and other places.

In other words, the election could be the next step for the Occupy movement.