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Originally Posted by Aliantha
I understand what you're saying. I just see them getting less news coverage here, and if they're not in the news, what's the point?
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They continue to be in the news on and off here in the States. The movement has several events planned which I'm sure will be considered newsworthy.
But news or no news, the point is that the American people are joining together in a common cause. I just got back from a "house party," one of two hundred scheduled across the country tonight. Most of the folks there were older, and we had a great discussion concerning the message we want to send to Congress.
I don't know why people say OWS has no objective. It's the corporations, stupid! Tonight our group told the leader - yes, we had a leader - that the message we wanted to send is that we want to work toward a Constitutional Amendment which will overturn the Supreme Court's ruling that corporations are people. We also talked about election reform, but tabled that for our next meeting.
On Friday and Saturday we will continue our version of Occupy Cortez and picket our Congressional Representative's office here, as well as a local bank that has affiliations with the one of the big financial outfits on Wall Street.
People are angry about what is happening to the US. I don't think we're anywhere near ready to take our toys and go home.
PS I just Googled "Occupy Denver," and within the last 24 hours, it has been written up in the Los Angeles Times, appeared on YouTube with its new leader, Shelby the collie, had a story about it broadcast from a local Denver TV station (KMGH), and was featured in a Huffington Post story.
That's just Denver. I'm too tired to check on the other Occupy groups.
So, the Australian media is not that excited about it. Why should they be? Their focus is correctly enough going to be on their own country.