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By: Bronte McGillis
Just like its name, Occupy
has just been one big fill-in-the-blank. It refuses to
explain exactly what it is protesting, mainly because it isn’t really protesting anything—it’s
protesting everything. “We are ,” it says, “from . We are
protesting and our idea is . Here is our proof: ...
We want the government to .”
A
s I was walking through Confederation
Park last month, where Occupy Ottawa
had been protesting for a few weeks, I
looked around at the signs. Some of them were
about wanting the “9/11 truth.” Others were
about racism, sexism, egoism, militarism, and all
sorts of other evil “-isms.” What specifically does
it want to prove More importantly, what the
heck does it want everybody to do about it Like a
whiny two-year-old, it’s criticizing hundreds of
things that nobody can change, especially not all
at once.
has devolved into chaos. Really, it isn’t “Occupy
Wall Street, Vancouver, Australia, Chicago,
Dublin, or Ottawa." It’s “Occupy Everybody’s
Time, Space, and Energy.” I say good
riddance.
The definition of a protest is a group of
people coming together with a common change in
mind. Key words: common and change.
Otherwise, it is a group of people coming together
to do what we like to call “complaining.” What
started out as an organized rally against capitalism
It's Occupy Everybody's Time,
Space, and Energy