Based on 2what's happening right now, the #OccupyEverywhere tactic is clearly unsustainable because a) it is too vulnerable to "legal" attack and dispersement by the security apparatus of the 1%, and b) it is not a tactic in which most members of the 99% can participate, what with them having life stuff to do. (That's a statement of fact, not in any way a criticism of anyone participating in the occupations/protests.)

Because of this, it isn't hard to foresee that most of these occupations will continue to dwindle in numbers in days to come, media will continue to focus on their diminishing numbers and their more colorful controversies (hello drummers!,) and eventually the 1% will feel safe to send in their security apparatus to shut them down.

When and as this happens, I think it is very important for the left to be clear in its own mind that "OccupyEverywhere" is just a tactic, and that the important lesson this tactic has shown is that the 99% movement behind the tactic is widely supported by the public in a way no left or progressive movement has been supported in decades. The 99% movement has already changed political discourse by bringing growing and desperate inequality back into public debate, and has shown itself to be potentially an incredibly potent social and political movement.

What needs to be avoided is trying to continue to implement a tactic that isn't sustainable and really can't succeed (at least in the early days of this movement) and countering the crap that the right is and will be spewing in days ahead about the movement itself being discredited as the occupations dwindle and/or are busted up by the 1% using their security forces.

That be my spiel...

- B