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(Occupy Wall Street) was an absolutely necessary eruption that forced the central but unspoken issues of our time on to the center stage. Indeed, what has been achieved is so important that it is now imperative that the victory not be sacrificed by continuing to focus on tactics. Translation: letting this movement descend into a prolonged cat and mouse battle over physical space, tents and parks would be tragic. The fight for physical space is not only unsustainable, it is also politically insufficient and ineffective. The more OWS becomes about itself, the more it looks inward, the more pointless it will become.
OWS must look outward.
- USC’s Marc Cooper, author of Roll Over Che Guevara: Travels of A Radical Reporter, in a post called “Occupy What?”
