Why another occupation?

i also do not see it as the movements inability to "get along" - and that the 1% "get along".

i see it as the movement's inability to honor, include, and value diversity, especially when those differences force us to examine our weaknesses (as the isms we intentionally or not bring w/us).

we have little experience being inclusive - i think i've said all this before - and i have suggested a model that i think will work.

but the bottom line is, before any other model can be introduced, we have to decide as a people that we WANT to value diversity.

and again, i think we need not view a number of occupations as 'division' but as making space for diversity.

because you believe the 1% models "getting along" doesn't really mean it is a model we want or even benefit from replicating, yes?

re:moving to mcpherson, i'm sure you know that there has been anti-codepink voices expressed there from the beginning (as at freedom plaza but more subtle there), which is one reason i hesitate; the other is that i'm not motivated by wall street but by ending war, which again is another slight 'difference' that doesn't mean division, just focus - for me, if (and when we did) have enough money in the beginning few years of war to both fund war and fund wall street, i was still out protesting.

and lastly, and most recently, i was 'attacked' (even called a "b....) by a few pro-war men at mcpherson who told me mcpherson was not all anti-war, that in fact many were pro-war, some people deserved to be killed, the military fights for my right of free speech, and that i was unpatriotic to stand against war, against soldiers who were training to and killing, against the u.s. military for exploiting our youth, etc.etc.etc. i felt like i was facing reapers at best, skin heads at worse.

so that's all i'm writing now! THANKS matt!