"This government, we must chant, is corrupt. We can say that clearly and loudly from the left. They can say that clearly and loudly from the Right. And then we must teach America that this corruption is the core problem -- it is the root problem -- that we as Americans must be fighting."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/a-letter-to-the-occupiers_b_1007459.html
"It all started with an e-mail. On July 13 Adbusters magazine sent out a call to its 90,000-strong list proclaiming a Twitter hashtag (#OccupyWallStreet) and a date, September 17. It quickly spread among the mostly young, tech-savvy radical set, along with an especially alluring poster the magazine put together of a ballerina atop the Charging Bull statue, the financial district's totem to testosterone."
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/19/141501013/the-nation-from-wall-street-to-everywhere
What it has become is a dialogue. Democracy at work.
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