The Occupy Wall Street movement, like all radical movements, has obliterated the narrow political parameters.
It proposes something new. It will not make concessions with corrupt systems of corporate power.
It holds fast to moral imperatives regardless of the cost. It confronts authority out of a sense of responsibility.
It is not interested in formal positions of power. It is not seeking office. It is not trying to get people to vote.
It has no resources. It can’t carry suitcases of money to congressional offices or run millions of dollars of advertisements.
All it can do is ask us to use our bodies and voices, often at personal risk, to fight back. It has no other way of defying the corporate state.
This rebellion creates a real community instead of a managed or virtual one.
It affirms our dignity.
It permits us to become free and independent human beings.
http://www.truth-out.org/movement-too-big-fail/1318858329
Extract from an online article by Chris Hedges in Truthout.