[lbo-talk] Democratic Party base discovers OWS

[Ferenc Molnar]

Van Jones endorses:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/01/van-jones-occupy-wall-street-rebuild-the-dream_n_990463.html

A doctored photo on the front page of Daily Kos misrepresenting crowd size. Crowd sizes were large but not this large. Also not sure if protesters ever stepped off the sidewalk to take the full street in the Wall Street area as the photo shows here.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/01/1021956/-First-official-statement-from-Occupy-Wall-Street?via=blog_1

And then a piggybacking video sponsored by the redoubtable Institute for Policy Studies in DC which represents the movement as one of taxing the rich. A representation which is, alas, not exactly consensus at the moment as I understand it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/01/1021856/-Occupy-Wall-Street-open-thread:-Tax-the-rich?via=blog_1