Cross-posted from occupygoddamnit.wordpress.com. I don’t know if there are May 1st actions in Columbus. I hope that there are. My brother said “I hear there’s supposed to be a general strike” with a fatalist inflection that was two steps away from an exhortation to return to watching reality television. “I haven’t really heard anybody talking about it anymore.” The Chronicle called the movement “mostly moribund” re: the SF Commune. MSNBC.com (who’s just a puppet for the socialist far left, right?) called the Wells Fargo shareholder occupation as “an attempt to revive the Occupy movement.” The narrative has been cast. The movement is dead. Time to move on. Time for MoveOn. You want to fight the 1%? Vote for Obama. Electoral politics, politics as usual, they’ve got this under control. No cause for alarm, for emergency, mayday. From Thomas Friedman...
