Leaderfull movement

This is a nice article here, profiling the OWS protests and their deliberate avoidance of raising single people up as leaders.

http://www.alternet.org/story/153223/occupy_wall_street%3A_a_leader-full_movement_in_a_leaderless_time/?page=entire

This echoes an NPR planet money podcast I listened to a few weeks ago that discusses the focus on consensus within the OWS movement, and its parallels with some radical economic ideas.

It will definitely be interesting to see what comes of all of this.

Occupy Everywhere

It seems that the favorite tact for traditional media voices to take when covering the Occupy (insert city name here) movement is to comment on how the protesters can't agree on a platform, that they tend to be shabby and young, and that it is not going to amount to anything.  I don't really think this is the case.