The MYTH about Occupy's 'hibernation'
We keep being told that the Occupy movement is in 'hibernation,' waiting for Spring. Occupy supporters here know that this is total BS.
Occupy encampments may have been raided by authorities and their tents cleared out, but Occupy actions have continued through the Winter.
Most Occupy protests this Winter have been relatively small, local events, often ignored even by local media, let alone national MSM. It's not often that OWS plans a major event calling thousands to one or a few places (like Occupy the Ports). Even the demonstrations against ALEC corporations were local actions--but they were conducted in cities nationwide.
Probably everyone in this group is aware of their local Occupy Our Homes actions that have continued to support homeowners against evictions and to protest at banks and at foreclosure auctions throughout the Winter (by April, Occupy L.A. will be occupying 99 homes foreclosed or threatened with foreclosure and eviction) .
In Occupy L.A. alone we've had so many actions going on that it's hard to keep up with them all.
Some supporters may find the notion that Occupy has been sleeping and will arise in the Spring heartening--but the idea that Occupy has been sleeping or hibernating is the narrative that has been pushed by Occupy's critics, and that narrative is a lie.
Even from the beginning, OWS and the Occupy movement were never exclusively about encampments. Even from the start, ACTIONS were conducted far from the camps.
The false narrative that has been pushed promotes the idea that Occupy is so weak that it was knocked back on its heels without tents, and that Occupiers are a bunch of wimps who can't take the cold weather (those dirty, long-haired entitlement hippies!1!!).
What really strikes me as funny: The movement's critics have computers that allow them to post their nonsense online, but they don't seem to have access to teh google or other search engines. Because if they did have access to search engines, they'd be able to see what Occupy has been doing--every single day, all Winter long in thousands of actions throughout the country.
Yes, the Spring will see more activity, and major events will get media attention. But the Occupy movement did NOT wimp out for the Winter. The truth is that it never stopped, or slept, or hibernated. That's just anti-Occupy BS.
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But Occupy is here, it's only getting stronger, and it's not going away.
And it does take old people. I'm a case in point. 
But even before an idea is presented and adopted as 'official,' Occupiers proceed with independent actions--and participate in actions sponsored by affiliated groups.
Recently, I received a notice about an action in L.A. that was not backed by OLA. Just before the event, the GA consensus approved it, and it became an 'official' OLA action.
Even in our local Occupys, we have to deal with delays, bureaucracy and red tape.
