The Road To "Getting" The Occupation

Nov 11th, 2011
by F. Grey Parker

"At first..."

If you are paying attention to the established punditry and their evolving attitudes regarding the Occupy movement at all, those are words you have probably read in one form or another by now.

I started out, like most voices on the left, asking "where are the demands?"

At first, I simply couldn't view this outbreak of civil disobedience through any prism other than the traditional 'issue-action,' 'party-politic' or 'platform-plank' approach which has, let me be honest, defined my activism for a quarter of a century. It just didn't compute...

at first...