THOUGHTS REGARDING THE #TAKEWALLSTREET PROTEST IN PROGRESS RIGHT NOW:
Here are a few tips. Let me say first that I agree that if this was a Tea Party protest with as many people as there are on Wall Street the protest would be headline news. But there's not a media blackout like y'all are claiming. Tea Party shit sells newspapers. There are many reasons why, but the chief reason is that Tea Party people are fucking nuts and most of the nation is waiting for them to get violent. No one's watching because they care about the Tea Party, they're watching for the spectacle. I don't propose that you guys create a violent spectacle, but I'll give you one example of why no one cares about radical leftist protests. It's because you over dramatize them so much. When the Tea Party people protest they just stand around looking pissed off and waving flags and polishing guns. You guys on Wall Street, and I know this because I have been watching your live stream for the past two hours while I work, you people are sitting around parroting whatever anyone who stands up to speak says. It's almost ironic.
For people who haven't seen the protest, everyone is sitting around, one person stands up, gives their statement one sentence at a time, and after each sentence the crowd repeats what was said. It's a good tactic, I've been to alot of protests and I've never seen that. But here's a recap, and I am typing word for word as I listen to it now:

Person #1: i have a proposal
Crowd: i have a proposal
Person #1: that we all meet
Crowd: that we all meet
Person #1: over by the staten island ferry in one hour
Crowd: over by the staten island ferry in one hour

Person #2: i propose
Crowd: i propose
Person #2: that we all love
Crowd: that we all love
Person #2: and respect each other
Crowd: and respect each other
Person #2: since we are
Crowd: since we are
Person #2: hoping to
Crowd: hoping to
Person #2: achieve the same goal
Crowd: achieve the same goal

Person #3: i propose
Crowd: i propose
Person #3: that we don't
Crowd: that we don't
Person #3: get arrested tonight
Crowd: get arrested tonight

Person #3: i can't
Crowd: i can't
Person #3: stay the night
Crowd: stay the night
Person #3: but i will come back
Crowd: but i will come back
Person #3: tomorrow
Crowd: tomorrow
Person #3: i propose
Crowd: i propose
Person #3: that we protest tomorrow too
Crowd: that we protest tomorrow too

Person #4: more peanut butter
Crowd: more peanut butter
Person #4: is on the way
Crowd: is on the way

Person #5: i propose
Crowd: i propose
Person #5: that we all stay
Crowd: that we all stay
Person #5: true to our revolution
Crowd: true to our revolution

And so on. For the past few hours. Tune in for yourself to see. So my advice is slow down a bit. You've got alot of wound up anarchists camping out, maybe keep the chanting to a relevant minimum so as not to blow your proverbial load too quickly. And chill out. If you're hoping to make this protest last two weeks I recommend a sit-in style protest, not the let's-all-sit-around-for-two-weeks-chanting-irrelevant-facts style protest. I'm gonna make it down to join in for a night, and I was going to go tonight before I saw the self-righteous crap going on for the inaugural night. So I do support your protest but christ, you're acting like you've been out there on a salt march for weeks and it's only been 8 hours. What's with the call for more computers and batteries? You're in New York City, J&R is right around the fucking corner. Get your own batteries. Or send someone home to charge up their phone. You're not under attack.

So to summarize: sit back, relax, get used to the idea of a two week protest. And get Tinhat off the microphone. If you're protesting the TARP bailout try to stay on topic, no one needs to be giving "September 11th was an inside job" speeches. Like I said before, there has to be an equivalent of Godwin's Law that estimates the amount of time a protest can exist before it's co-opted by ego-maniacal conspiracy theorists. That is where the left's protests always fail, in my opinion.

In Support,
Thomas Monopoly

Edit: And the guy with the megaphone who is currently screaming about how we are all American political prisoners, and who has the gall to be equating the conditions of any American anywhere in America with actual political prisoners being tortured in third world countries, is doing your cause a great disservice and claims like that are an insult to true political prisoners everywhere. I should start my own protest. It would go:

Me: Most of us
Crowd: Most of us
Me: have it pretty good.
Crowd: have it pretty good.
Me: But some of us
Crowd: But some of us
Me: Don't.
Crowd: Don't.
Me: We demand
Crowd: We demand
Me: More quality.
Crowd: More equality.
Me: But we're not going to compare ourselves to Bhutto
Crowd: But we're not going to compare ourselves to Bhutto
Me: Just for dramatic effect.
Crowd: Just for dramatic effect.