Can you imagine if OWS went to Washington and 500,000 people showed up, stopping all traffic...

[Sarah Ibarruri]

stopping everything, very peacefully?

[midnight]

1. What a beautiful sight that would be.....

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Yes! nt

[hack89]

2. I doubt there is that level of interest - might be worth it to give it a shot though. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Well, 6 months ago I had no idea all this would be going on with OWS. Not at all. nt

[hack89]

5. I am somewhat disappointed in the numbers

there is an occupy Providence that really doesn't seem to be having much of an impact on the people's consciences - which is shocking when you realize what a big college town it is and how Democratic the state is. For every occupy like Oakland there are a dozen more that are slowly withering away to nothing.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Don't be disappointed. This movement has already had an effect!

Can't you tell?

[hack89]

23. No - it has had no impact on the big issues in Rhode Island

we are in the throes of a huge and contentious effort to reform public pensions - OWS has had absolutely no impact. They are ignored not only by the power infrastructure but also by those fighting for reform.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

26. The OWS movement just barely began. It started on 9/17/11...

It took from 1980 (Reagan) to the present for GOPigs to fuck up this country.

Fixing EVERYTHING they fucked up, and destroying the momentum the GOPigs set in motion, will not happen in one day.

Do not lose hope. Just move the movement. Please.

[jimlup]

6. The Movement must at some point mature to this point.

This will tell the true story of our future.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

10. I agree. Slowly. We can't expect it to happen overnight. It was born on 9/17/11 -

not so long ago.

[jimlup]

21. Yep - you are absolutely right!

That is why I'm essentially holding my breath that the movement matures fast enough to survive. Now seems to me to be the critical period. The media wants to call it "over" and they even keep trying to do this. This is why it (the movement) needs to hold tight and fast right now. How? I honestly don't know. But if the movement is to mature it must live through its "adolescence" (which could actually last for quite some time) somehow.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

25. I think people like me are important in this movement. I haven't been able to participate

in the protests. I work and my work doesn't allow me to displace myself by going to where protests are being held. But I donate $, I give my time by making phone calls, writing letters, writing emails to organizations and politicians and the like, and I keep my friends and family informed, and they pass these things on. I am part of the OWS movement, but I am invisible because I'm not on the street.

I think the physical protests are ONE PART of the movement. A VERY VERY important part of the movement, because they are VISIBLE! The rest of the movement, tho, is invisible, because it is all those millions of people like me. :)

[steelmania75]

7. I think the reason not as many people are in the streets is because people are on the edge of losing

their job, and they feel if they were to join a movement like OWS, they would get fired.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

11. On the other hand, there are SO MANY people without jobs that are desperate! nt

[steelmania75]

15. true. maybe people are just that pessimistic?

they won't jump aboard until they see larger protests poking a hole in the establishment.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

24. It's poking! lol I can't participate. I have a job I don't want to lose. But I donate $ to help

whoever is wonderful enough to be protesting, and I bow to their awesomeness, for they are helping me, and they are taking my place. I send out letters, do phone calls, send e-mails to organizations, politicians, friends and family, and so on, to spread the news of this movement. However, I have not been able to be present at OWS protests. If one were to be held here in my city, I would, however!

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Well, last time a half-million people showed up in Washington...

we went to war anyway.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. Yes, but they showed up, stayed a little while and went home and remained silent

And there were leaders, and they were pretty obsequious.

[redgiant]

13. Not enough PortaPotties n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

14. Well, if port-a-potties are avail for 2,000, surely there can be for more nt

[lbrtbell]

16. It wouldn't be peaceful.

The thug police would make sure of that.

[Cresent City Kid]

17. They need to occupy the space between K Street and Congress

It may only be symbolic, but some symbols are worth brandishing.

[BlueToTheBone]

18. Can you imagine if they STAYED! For weeks or months

500,000 continually? What a sight. Things would change. I would have to be there.

[steelmania75]

19. Occupy the National Mall!

[Huey P. Long]

28. This is what needs to happen. And yes despite the 'horror' to some, block traffic.

It will happen eventually, someday, when things are unbearable enough.
At least I hope. We evidently need more victims, more injustice, more destruction of the middle class.
And it WILL come, make no mistake. They are oblivious to our pain.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

29. God, I'd love it! nt

[Starry Messenger]

20. That's something that needs to happen, IMO.

Occupy the Mall. It has powerful historical precedence.

[brooklynite]

22. If 500,000 people showed up to protest, they wouldn't need to block traffic....

[Sarah Ibarruri]

27. :-) nt