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None of us are winning, yet by Subhash Kateel

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I just finished reading Sally Kohn’s piece in the American Prospect titled Follow No Leader that outlines her criticism of the Occupy Wall Street(for a good explanation of the action check out this Voices from the Frontline Occupy Wall Street protests). Now, I know Sally to be thoughtful and articulate. I am especially proud of her courage being in the Fox News studios going head to head with the Michelle Malkin’s of the world. That respect made her article even more curious to me. In the article she basically reduces the Occupy Wall Street protests to “making noise for its own sake,” and cites a New York Times writer, Ginia Bellafante, who accuses Occupy Wall Street of “pantomiming (maybe I am dumb, but I had to look that word up to make sure I knew what it meant) progressivism rather than practicing it.” Sally even seems to co-sign the Times writers’ characterization of the protestors as hippies and anarchists.
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A Grounded Movement by Sally Kohn

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This is a response to the None of us are winning, yet by Subhash Kateel which we posted late Tuesday night as a challenge to Sally Kohn’s original piece in the American Prospect which criticized the nature of the Occupy Wall Street Protest. We are publishing this back and forth because our mission at Organizing Upgrade is to upgrade the theory and practice of left organizing, and this exchange is great example of real time debate about what is happening right now. Also, it is great to see two people with so much respect for each other engage in a principled public debate.