For Twitter fans, it's a hashtag: #OccupyFail Here's just a sample of what the BBC doesn't want you to know about their favorite US political movement. A Petri Dish of Activism, and Germs 
#OccupyFail: You Know Your Movement's Over When....
>> SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011
The chorus began quietly at a recent strategy session inside Zuccotti Park, with a single cough from a security team member, a muffled hack between puffs on his cigarette. Then a colleague followed. Then another. Soon the discussion had devolved into a fit of wheezing, with one protester blowing his nose into the mulch between clusters of tents. “It’s called Zuccotti lung,” said Willie Carey, 28, a demonstrator from Chapel Hill, N.C. “It’s a real thing.”
Seems to be spreading. No headlice in NYC yet. Future of Occupy Burlington encampment uncertain after police clear City Hall Park to investigate man's death The city closed half of City Hall Park and put a halt to all camping at the Occupy Burlington site Thursday night while police investigate a shooting in a tent that cost a 35-year-old man his life. Meanwhile, the movement’s participants mourned a member of their community and planned the future of the encampment. Just a day after the joyful spontaneity of a Gogol Bordello performance Wednesday night at City Hall Park, Thursday’s shooting that police believe may have been self-inflicted spiraled into a tense confrontation between Burlington police and some protesters over access to the park.
Mostly Peaceful Occupy Portland Rape Policy: “Nobody Should Contact the Police”
Saturday, 12 November 2011
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