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Published on Sunday, October 23, 2011 by the Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/19/2460420/worlds-eyes-on-occupy-movement.html
by Leonard Pitts Jr.
"You say you want a revolution?"
— The Beatles
By one measure at least, the movement that began with Occupy Wall Street is already bigger than the Tea Party ever was.
According to a report in the Washington Post, Occupy rallies were held in more than 900 cities around the country and across the globe last weekend. The Tea Party is big, but it is not known to have had an impact in Barcelona, London, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Brussels, Munich, Rome, Sydney, Manila, Lisbon, Paris and Zurich.
Granted, that observation is deceptive in one sense: it quantifies breadth, but not depth. That is to say, while the Occupy movement has spread broadly, there is as yet little evidence of its ability to seize political power and use it to execute the movement's agenda. Say what you will about the Tea Party — a straight line if ever there was one — but give it credit for moving quickly to translate its angst into political capital with which it impacted the 2010 midterms and presidential politics to this very day.
The Occupy movement, by contrast, remains what several people have called it: a primal scream.
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