The workshop where Okutan's tofu is made occupies a multichambered grotto beneath the dining rooms which has the chaste and contemplative atmosphere of a chapel.
It made occupying this house feel so righteous".
This, they both say, makes Occupy Gramercy Park less onerous.
What makes Occupy Wall Street distinct from others America has seen — even the recent Tea Party Movement — is its urban origins.
Many of Obama's senior advisers have ties to the financial industry — a point that makes Occupy protesters wary of the president and his party.
And yet isn't that exactly what made Occupy Wall Street so refreshingly appealing from the very beginning: the unbounded radicality of vision, imagination, and tactics; the beauty in its articulation of the idea that the system itself is fundamentally broken and needs to be fixed?
The idea, led by a group that includes a Cornell law professor, a former director of Deutsche Bank and a former British diplomat, is meant to serve people who do not have bank accounts, but it also aims to make Occupy a recognized financial services brand.
But the millions of Americans it's inspired promise to make Occupy Wall Street as powerful, resilient and long lasting as any of the great American reform movements.
Is it because the inequality of wealth distribution across the continent makes Occupy Wall Street seem like a piece of performance art, or because we affluent Westerners want it to be that way so we can save it?
