Bring the Heat
Occupy the Winter of Our Discontent
by David Swanson
Can occupations survive a winter of global weirding, escalated police brutality, and the corporate media’s venom? Should they?
In some parts of the country there will be no cold weather. In others, police abuses will result in larger occupations, not smaller. And it’s certainly possible that for the first time in recent years an independent progressive populist campaign will survive the enmity of the corporate media.
In other cases, the cold, the communications assaults, fatigue, and the difficulties encountered by activist camps that also become homes for the homeless and the mentally ill may begin to erode the usefulness of encampments. What to do? (more…)
