Putting words in their mouths..............

Bottom-up change is a process.  A process that is difficult, often
dangerous, and time-consuming.  History makes me believe that,
when the most successful bottom-up changes have occurred,
those seeking the change occupied the high moral ground, and
further, they behaved in a manner that preserved their hold on
the moral high ground, while continually exposing those
defending the status quo as occupying the not-so-high moral
ground.  Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. come to
mind as practitioners of successful bottom-up change.

Part of my difficulty in seeing much good coming out of the recent
Occupy Wall Street movement was the seeming incoherence of
the message being delivered.  One of my early teachers instructed
that there is little power in being against something.  The power
comes from being for something bigger than yourself.  That sort
of power was not clearly on display last fall.

So, it was with great interest that I read the Business Pundit's
recent post, 10 Clearest Demands of Occupy Wall Street.  The
full post is here.   Rationale for the post here:

"One of the chief criticisms leveled at OWS by detractors
wasthat its message was garbled, incoherent, and the type
of socialism we hate except when its our Medicare.  On the
opposite side of the argument, there's the opinion that maybe
there is just so much wrong that it doesn't easily distill itself
down to a CNN-bullet point.  It may take some reading
between the lines, but here are the most salient points that
emerged from the admittedly schizophrenic protests."