NATO, G-8 Chicago, 05/2012: Rahm Emmanuel says that The Secret Service

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6. The video? sure! Interesting to see how Occupy handles major event protest as opposed to a tent city

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My concern is...

The only "successful" direct actions held against an event I can think of are ones where chaos ensued, causing media blowback (expending political capital and good will, to get egg on their face, in other words). Seattle 99, Chicago 68.

That's because the media and TV-land ignores protest marches even when a million people block off the streets peacefully, as in the Iraq War marches.

Wisconsin may have been an exception because it was a sit-in of the Capitol building.

The tent cities are different because Occupy refuses to go away.

Maybe the solution, therefore, is a sit-down lockout strike (???)

(In Chicago, that is.) Like in Wisconsin?

That would make it difficult for the media to ignore the protestors. Such ideas I hope will be deliberated upon... and not broadcasted prematurely... like they did with the November 17 action on Wall Street that preempted the shut-down of Zucotti Park. Unfortunately from what I've heard, Occupy Chicago is struggling quite a bit?

Americans claim to insist that they will not tolerate disruptive protest,

yet we only seem to be entertained by violence. It's all very titillating.