The time may not be right for Occupy Wall Street to forge a common message. But a unified slogan could be just the thing for the moment when critics are trying to debunk the movement for its formlessness.
"Just Show Up" could serve the purpose.
Six million Americans have been out of work for more than six months. If that doesn't qualify people to protest against the greed and opportunism that has exploited them, what would? The thing about the six million -- and all their dependents -- is that most of the time they're invisible. So it's hard to imagine how much misery and shame that represents.
As long as people who are suffering from the system's excesses remain huddled by the hearth -- as long as the unemployed protest their fate from corner bar stools across America -- they can be dismissed as an inevitable consequence of capitalism.
Right-thinking people know they are not. Increasingly, they represent the silent majority. Instead of being shuffled out of sight, isn't it time for the real majority to JUST SHOW UP?
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