Occupy Wall Street -- just venting

[PamNY]

They are still claiming to be leaderless, but have finally appointed representatives to deal with community concerns. So far, we've gotten them to stop the "drum circle" at 10 pm.

I personally want half the park returned for normal use -- we'll see how that goes. They claim to be concerned that they are hurting the farmer's market, but I see no evidence they've done anything concrete. Today a young man was proudly holding his sign and being interviewed by a reporter -- and also blocking access to the market. I shooed them away and they complied, but I can't be there all day, and it probably wouldn't help if I could.

The park is noisy, crowded, ringed with cops and looks a garbage dump (though they are trying to be clean). I'm sure most people just decide they will buy tomatoes at the grocery store until this is all over and skip the farmer's market.

This negotiating with OWS is being done by community volunteers.

I no longer get out of the way of their little mini-marches, which I seem to have a special gift for running into (unless a cop tells me to). Over the weekend I kept going right through them on my Xootr and they did move to let me through.