Occupy Wall Street

As LDL pointed out in an earlier post, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Boston are becoming important enough to mention in class. I am anticipating an in class discussion on this, and if there isn't, I will make one happen on Wednesday. I will ascertain this by occupying Boston over Fall Break, and then coming back with an eyewitness report on the proceedings.
Here is a repost from BoingBoing:

Most revolts are snuffed out well before their efforts impact the political scene – not because their ideas and issues aren’t relevant, but because the major institutional players within the system-that-is rapidly attempt to snag the power and energy for their own. In the eyes of the Democratic Party or the national environmental groups, this revolt is merely seen as an opportunity to assimilate newly emerging troops back into those groups’ own flaccid and ineffective organizing. After all, if those institutional groups have actually been effective all of these years, why the need for a revolt at all?

BoingBoing is a fantastic blog, and is my chief source of news as of right now. The reason why I sometimes giggled in class during Ragtime, whenever someone mentioned the author as being "Doctorow", was that the main contributor on BoingBoing is Cory Doctorow. If you want news on Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Boston, don't go to CNN. Don't go to NPR. Go to BoingBoing. They'll sort out the stuff from CNN and NPR for you and provide psycho-socio-economic analysis....as well as posting about the random stuff they find elsewhere. I have to warn you, though, that this is not for those who are easily offended by geeks and nerds.