A extract from an interesting article from the Bureau of Public Secrets, on the Occupy movement.
"One of the most notable characteristics of the “Occupy” movement is that it is
just what it claims to be: leaderless and antihierarchical. Certain people have
of course played significant roles in laying the groundwork for Occupy Wall
Street and the other occupations, and others may have ended up playing
significant roles in dealing with various tasks in committees or in coming up
with ideas that are good enough to be adopted by the assemblies. But as far as I
can tell, none of these people have claimed that such slightly disproportionate
contributions mean that they should have any greater say than anyone else.
Certain famous people have rallied to the movement and some of them have been
invited to speak to the assemblies, but they have generally been quite aware
that the participants are in charge and that nobody is telling them what to do.
This puts the media in an awkward and unaccustomed position. They are used to
relating with leaders. Since they have not been able to find any, they are
forced to look a little deeper, to investigate for themselves and see if they
can discover who or what may be behind all this. Since the initial concept and
publicity for Occupy Wall Street came from the Canadian group and magazine
Adbusters, the following passage from an interview
with Adbusters editor and co-founder Kalle Lasn (Salon.com, October 4) has
been widely noticed: ---"
