So we've had a few visitors from OWS join us in the last few weeks, and I was lucky enough to hang out with one of them, Kris from Harlem. It was pretty interesting hearing what he had to say about Occupy LA. You're friendly, you have a great community, your struggles to  improve the General Assembly and figure out 'the process' of consensus and participatory democracy directly mirror a similar stage OWS went through...

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you. Erin Burnett on CNN declared Occupy Wall Street protesters were all ignorant, Bongo-drumming circus acts who do “not know what they want,” and then featured a video clip of herself triumphantly outwitting an apparently clueless protestor - by actually misrepresenting the facts concerning TARP and the American taxpayer. Burnett’s twitter response to a journalist’s question ‘What’s the purpose of Occupy Wall Street?’ was ‘Bang on the Bongos, smoke weed!’.

So I usually blog over here. In my time, my blog had a pretty big following, got profiled in the New York Times, got me a book deal, a few Bloggie nomination and a LOT of hate mail. I consider the hate mail the pinnacle of my success.