So, can we point out and strategize when Occupy is being

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11. I think many people are just getting their Occupy news from the mainstream media

Coverage of Occupy has diminished over the winter, and even someone who watches Olbermann and Maddow could have the impression that the movement has peaked and lost momentum, that it was done in by violence in the streets and garbage at the encampments, and that it's time for attention to be turned back to electoral politics.

You have to be following pretty closely to know how much work is being done on Occupy 2.0. Partly, the energy has been going into local events, appropriate to smaller towns and neighborhoods. Partly, it's being saved up for the big protests announced for this spring. And partly it's going into planning something completely different.

When one foreclosure gets stopped in one city, or when a cash mob descends on a small business, it might make the local papers but it never reaches the national media. When eight occupiers marching from Atlanta to Chicago camp overnight in a field in nowheresville Tennessee, you'd have no clue unless you saw their picture on Facebook.

So correct the more egregious errors if you like. But mostly just relax and let the process develop in its own time.