I'm saving this one. But I bet someone could draw an even bigger tree that included real but intangible fruits such as changing the debt-ceiling media saturation, bringing income inequality in to the national discussion, bringing the cost of student debt to the fore, the success of citizen journalism, exposing the insecurity of the 1% and the great expense they'll go to protecting their interests etc., just off the top of my head.

I'd say that Occupy is leafing out....for the diehard critics will say "Where's the Fruit?"

I say it's going to be revolutionary....and we aren't going away.

We are the 99%, which means you 1%ers aren't going to be making the rules, and sooner than you think!

is probably not going to be very effective.

Occupy was a bourgeois group that did some awareness raising. Whether it will morph and continue to grow remains to be seen. One thing I can tell you, though, is that conditions will dictate how strong resistance becomes and what form it takes. When people have little left to lose they will be in the streets. We may not be at that point quite yet, but if the austerity continues (particularly if either party kills social security) I expect that time could come quicker than we think.

"Was"?

(Seriously, that's rhetorical.)

I'm not actively involved and if folks are still operating that's great. It's the first time in 30 years I've heard people get out there with a class-focused message and that IS very exciting.