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>>obilgi+(OP)
Seems like GenZ is having their occupy moment. The police is probably just waiting for them to get tired and go home. In few weeks back to "normal".

>>joeysp+dJ1
There is a persistent desire to suck the funds out of the police force budget and redirect the money to things the community values. This unlike occupy is a tangible goal and if people only elect people willing to give it to them it will happen regardless of what people outside of Seattle want.

>>michae+CM1
Occupy Wall Street had a tangible goal. Break up big banks, and forgive predatory loans.

Even with Obama in office, we ended up with even bigger banks and a spiraling debt crisis.

>>hedora+BN1
I don't remember that being a consistent, clearly articulated goal. That's also orders of magnitude more difficult to accomplish than shifting some city budgets around.

>>noelsu+SU2
Via http://web.archive.org/web/20120621221550/http://occupycg.or...

- Reinstate Glass-Steagall to separate commercial and investment banking

- Require all votes to be made on paper to prevent malicious manipulation

- Overturn Citizens United v. FEC to prevent corporations from buying politicians and elections

- Implement the "Warren Buffet Rule" and restore historical tax rates for the wealthiest 1% of Americans