Occupy Wall Street and the larger Occupy movement it spawned is one of the most important stories in 2011. However, it is also one of the most poorly covered stories, probably because the corporations that control our media found it threatening. Setting Fox "News" and their blatant propaganda aside, the rest of the news media really seemed to struggle to understand OWS. I suppose they will have more time to figure it out since I do not think OWS is going away any time soon.

I am going to be interested to see what the relationship between OWS and the Democratic Party is like in 2012. Embracing OWS may be politically risky, but I suspect that trying to ignore it or worse - alienating it further - could be politically suicidal.

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