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The Occupy movement is both very new and rather diffuse so far, and appears less interested in gaining power than making power uncomfortable and raising far-reaching questions and public awareness.
Just over two months old, it has succeed in changing the terms of the national debate about income inequality in this country with shocking rapidity. And whether it flames out in a rash of alienating and chaotic street clashes or builds into a goal-oriented and sustainable force in American life — sustainable as any protest movement, that is, which is to say not very — it’s clear it has already made one of the most significant interventions into the national debate on economic equality in years.
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Too Much Violence and Pepper-Spray, The Atlantic
This sums up pretty tidily why I think this is tremendously important and moving. We’re going to see this play out over the next few years and election cycles.
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