Occupy needs permanence

[anodomino]

The best thing the occupy movement could need at this point is a permanent fiixture. One that will NOT go away. Once a TV channel, a building site or other permanent struct can setlle, the ideas and growth would propogate accordingly. This is the worst nightmare for Wall Street controllers and their minions. If knowledge and truth were free and held a representative entity that matches the entities that have allowed them to perpetuate expploitation of our ignorance as a society, they would be alarmed. but, the greatest thing about creating permanence is that they will eventually and inevitably be drained of their powers and influence! They will not go peacefully but if their lifeforce drained, THEY HAVE NO CHOICE!
OCCUPPY CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OCCUPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Trader Jim]

A live sex show featuring a donkey like in Tiajauna might get things going.

[Mark]

An occupation, by nature and definition, is without permanence. When we gain permanence we cease to be an occupation.
The permanence you talk about, anodomino, is not something that hasn't been tried before. In fact, it has been tried so many, many times it has to be considered a failed strategy. There is no end to the amount of progressive, radical and even revolutionary non for profit organizations safely and permanently ensconced indoors. If we got ourselves firmly indoors we'd become just another one of those. Then what? We'd be back where we started and be in need once again of an occupation to come along and start some change.
When you get too comfortable and sedentary you're not motivated to get up and shake things up. You're afraid of change then. You have more invested in the status quo than you do in changing it. You have become bourgeois, a property holder.
Unfortunately, the middle and upper class college kids that seem to predominate our little movement have a hard time resisting the bourgeois comforts they are used to. I suspect they wouldn't last very long at all in the bush with the Viet Cong or in the Sierra Maestra with Fidel and Che if they so can't handle occupation.