If and when OWS resumes its activities and I am assuming that it is when I have a suggestion. The media will never cover any of these events unless the police are busting heads and pepper spraying. And the media will never talk to OWS people unless it is to mock or trap them in some way.
I could be wrong, but OWS might actually get coverage if they demonstrated outside the sites where MSM studios are. They almost have to show something if you are outside of their premises on public property. I believe that OWS and other protest groups have to start challenging the media itself. You could have a million people and if they won't cover it the word will not really get out on a national feed. Time and time again with the antiwar demonstrations the media almost never came.
If you have a particular issue you make signs addressing that issue. You also have signs criticizing the media for being a RW shill. The media simply has to be put on the defensive in some way.
If you want to start movement I think that it is essential to occupy the media first.
The OWS movement simply has to adopt the Second Economic Bill Of Rights as first brought up by Teddy Roosevelt and more thoroughly defined by FDR on January 14th, 1944. Had Roosevelt remained healthy enough and lived through the war things might have been different.
The Second Economic Bill Of Rights was his model for a new post war economy where all workers benefitted from the fruit of their labor. That idea addresses ALL the issues around equality. And it is a huge strategic error to ignore that speech.
I have brought that speech up several time on this forum and get very little response. It is the best push back against this free market garbage that is being pushed now.
= new reply since forum marked as read