Article on infiltration

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4. 99% Declaration is different group from 99% Spring -- and, i think 99D fizzled

b/c it was one guy who either had a profit motive or did some shady stuff with copyrighting and trying to 'own' the rights to the document or something like that.

all this has interested me b/c there's a massive branding issue emerging. or, what i'm thinking about in terms of branding. like, who gets to associate themselves with the "Occupy" or "99%" brand? no one has control of it -- no one should, b/c it's not a hierarchal thing. this uncertainty is creating a turf battle, which puts a new light on what "infiltration" might mean. this article seems to me to be pointing fingers at established activist groups saying "you're not us," therefore you're infiltrators. and, there's no reason not to imagine that this isn't payback for the Chris Hedges critique of the Black Block as giving cover to infiltrators.

and so it goes.