I guess this is positive.

It's positive that middle class and affluent people are feeling the pinch and have decided to adopt a political agenda that aligns more with the working class.   I <3 Occupy.

However, I see a huge cultural divide.

It looks like a lot of occupants are the top 30% or so.  I say this as a member of the upper 50% or 60%.

A lot of your concerns and ideas are coming from that class.  The collapse of 401Ks isn't a factor to people who don't have them.  Foreclosures don't really affect renters. Open university is, well, open university.  The media ignore you right now, but they always ignore the poor and homeless unless it is to other-ize them.

Dialogue?  It's really only the middle class who don't talk about class and money honestly.  The rich have outsourced their economic violence to wealth management companies.  The poor talk about being broke because it's such a difficult thing.  The middle class avoid it because we're busy trying to get ahead of each other, and it's really an immoral, unfair, evil thing we do.

BTW - This isn't the first movement to integrate the homeless.  In the 30s Communists and anarchists organized in the Hoovervilles, which were basically shanty towns of homeless people.   In the 1600s, radicals organized the landless.

Also, you don't need a filter to drink water.  Tap water is fine.  It just smells like chlorine.

In this video it's a group of mostly middle class, mostly white people, and the perspectives are of that class.  These folks are setting the tone of occupy LA.

I'm not saying they're classist.  I'm saying they have a "myopia" or nearsightedness about what matters.

It's be valuable to have conversations where people just express what they think is important, without having people trying to universalize it into a coherent message.  Don't force it.  Just listen to each other.