LOS ANGELES October 4, 2011 - Day 4 of the encampment at city hall ? Los Angeles City Councilmen Eric Garcetti and Bill Rosendahl visited the encampment today and expressed their support for Occupy LA. They announced to the crowd gathered around them that they plan to introduce a resolution to the city council tomorrow declaring the council's support for Occupy LA.
I'm still supporting those protesters (materially) but their lack of politics, and excessive reverence of power will be their undoing. What kind of "leaderless revolution" gives so much power to the famous and powerful?
Politicians are not the 99%. They are the intermediaries between the 99% and the 1%.
People like us cannot talk directly and influence anyone like Phil Anschutz, Ralph Horowitz, or any of the big mucky-muck developers. It's supposed to be the politicians keeping these billionaires in check, to limit their ability to do whatever they want with our city.
But time and again, the 1% find allies among the city politicians.
And now these Occupy LA campers are busy rejecting some people on the left and others who have been involved in pushing the LA mainstream to be more progressive.
