So what is the Occupy Movement up to these days?

It may seem hard to believe, but the Occupy Wall Street movement has moved on to new issues in many parts of the country. Their new motto must be "All protests, all the time!" Here is a good example: in Washington state, the Occupy movement is jointing forces with the Longshoremens' union to block access to a huge new grain port built to expedite the shipment of American grown grain to other countries. These agricultural products are one of the biggest of all American exports and these sales support the livelihood of millions of American farmers. The last time I looked, none of these farmers were part of the so-called 1%. So why, you may ask, would the Occupy movement block the port? The answer is that there is a fight between the company that operates the port and the Longshoremens' union. No, the company is not using non-union labor. ECT, the operator of the port, is indeed using union labor, but the workers are from the Operating Engineers union rather than the Longshoremens' union. It is a jurisdictional dispute. That means that the Occupy movement is threatening massive civil disobedience in support of some union workers against other union workers. No one in the 1% here; there is only the opportunity for a flashy protest.

The truth is now out about the Occupy movement. It never had a clear objective, but rather had some slogans about anger at the rich. Even those slogans, however, were not the essence of the movement. No, that essence was really about the "joy" of protesting. Aging hippies and newly minted protest lovers wanted to recreate the 1960's, a time when protests were commonplace. In the 1960's, though, the protests actually had a target, be it segregation or the war in Vietnam. Today, the Occupy movement is just there for the fun of it.