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Monday, October 24, 2011

Occupy Dallas protesters vary on goals, endgame - SMU Daily Campus

The "Occupy" movement has crept into cities across the United States, and so has the criticism that they have no uniform goal.
Occupy Dallas has not escaped this critique.

While the complaints of the protesters in Dallas vary, they all share a common theme: corporate greed and the silencing of regular Americans. They also share a common timeline in that they don't have one.

Cordell Cameron, who runs OccupyDallas.org and frequently blogs on the site, said he feels the criticism is unfounded."When people here can't articulate a legitimate solution to the problems, they say ‘you are ignorant, you don't know what you are doing out here and you are about nothing,'" he said.

"My point is that it's not the people's responsibility to do that, it's the politician's job. People should be expressing their grievances here and the politicians should be listening and coming up with solutions."

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