About OWS

It is horizontal, anonymous, individual, and autonomous. It's hard to hold down.
There are also libertarians and anarchists who brought in malice against the police. This malice was fueled by the actions of the police.

As a group, I think OWS sees the macro economic injustice (Finally) but don't really notice the overall macro injustice, the means by which the wealthy gain and keep power. And they don't seem to see micro injustice, the little part they play in the oppression of others.

When I talk about macro and micro injustice, I'm talking about tactics used since the first European touched foot on American soil. Those tactics are all the -isms. All the things that divide people. Murder, Disease, Disenfranchisement and overt control of legislation and enforcement of that legislation.

The purpose is to prevent workers from uniting and removing the wealthy from their seat of power. Divide and conquer works so well because when they divide, they give one group privilege over the other. They tell one group that power and control could be theirs if they work hard enough.
Then they plant the seeds of fear. That women and people of color are trying to take privilege from white men. So those with privilege are always paranoid. Always afraid that what they have is going to be taken by someone else who is not deserving.

The wealthy create a sense of envy in the have nots and make us believe that the only way to come up is to gain privilege that is somehow withheld by white men.

OWS arises from a protest against The 21st century application of divide and conquer because the wealthy are starting to take economic privileges away from white men Because they really don't need them anymore. The wealthy have got workers in China and Mexico to do their bidding at a lower costs. They realize that giving white men privilege is expensive and interferes with their profit.
White males Continue to covet their dwindling privilege and take efforts to ensure that POC and women are at lower rungs than they are.

A time tested strategy that is based off of fear and complete bullshit but works brilliantly. We all need to see that we are being played against each other. I don't think OWS, as a whole, is aware of this. They don't notice the ingrained competition/conflict within us all.

I remember when people started to talk about the treatment of people of color and women within OWS, White OWS people balked and said they were distracting from the movement that was basically a fight between the 99% and the 1%.

OWS tends to have a surface admiration for movements of the past but they are so interested in creating something unique that they don't seem to delve deep enough into past movements to really learn anything from them. They seem to learn tactics but that seems to be it.

It's all about people getting together because they are angry about injustice that affects their life. That injustice is economic injustice.
And most people in OWS are not dealing with racial injustice or sexism. So they balk when people bring it up and when people shine the light on them.

It's all about life, liberty, and property. OWS focuses on property and people of color have to focus on life.