Though some see the protest as scattered and vague, it will hopefully help to wake people from the complacency that’s eerily widespread in light of the current financial crisis. The reluctant media coverage should be a serious wake-up call. And “#occupywallstreet” being blocked from trending on Twitter? Land of the free / land of the police state. 

From What I Saw at Wall Street Last Night, and What I Saw When I Left:

It seemed like pretty much everyone there basically agreed on certain basic principles — that something was seriously broken in the American economy, that something was seriously broken in American politics, and that an accelerating concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a small minority was at the root of most of of that brokenness. People differed on how to address that problem, I said, but they all pretty much agreed about what the problem was, that it needed to be tackled, and that it wasn’t really being tackled now …

Maybe what they have to offer isn’t a plan so much as an opportunity to have a bigger conversation, or even just an invitation to continue and expand a conversation that’s been going on in small ways in small places for a long time. 

And that’s a conversation I’m really eager to see continue.