Although Monday's open forum was meagerly attended, politically active members like Cecily McMillan and David Haack, who first proposed formulating demands in a pre-campout planning meeting in August, said they were ready to take action.
Elsewhere, Occupy Boston, Occupy D.C. and Occupy Philadelphia were among the many groups in the movement slowly formulating demands, though in each city, opposition has arisen from skeptical demonstrators.
Browbeating the mainstream media for favourable coverage, in short, is an important part of any protest movement, and while Mr Keller is right that formulating demands for things the political system can deliver is a crucial step towards effectiveness, he should also recognise that the drubbing he's just received is also a step towards effectiveness.
A3M was born at an April 3 , 1969 meeting in Dinkelspiel Auditorium, where students formulated demands to end classified and war-related research on campus.
And this is why all exhortations to "formulate demands", embrace structure, or turn to "everyday life" miss the point: the activists' unwillingness to engage is precisely what has allowed them, up to now, to disrupt the timetable of official politics.
However some activists have warned that without organisation, leadership and properly formulated demands, the protests risk losing momentum over the summer vacation period and could be eclipsed by the Palestinians' expected bid for statehood at the United Nations in September.
The 2005 riots were her generation's equivalent of 1968, she says, but there was a difference this time: "In 68, the anger was understood and translated by an intelligentsia: authors, intellectuals, artists, who then formulated demands, and so made progress.
It is clear that negotiations in which one State formulates demands and the other is to be obliged to accept those demands unaltered are not negotiations in the spirit of the declaration of 1934 and are incompatible with the vital interests and dignity of Poland.
To start an #Occupy Movement in your town, you don't have to take the time to form a coalition of community groups and unions, meet in church basements to formulate demands, negotiate with the police for permits, put out leaflets, etc.
Inside the school, the terrorists were formulating their demands, which were passed in two notes to police outside.
Huge numbers of people cannot formulate their demands in the language of politics.
