The occupiers' concerns are rooted in the environmental sensitivity of the region, traditional land title, and protecting the economic viability of small-scale commercial fishers.
What ground should occupiers occupy?
Jon Cuba, a junior, who is one of the occupiers, said that, as they planned the action, he and the others were concerned that the barricade panels, each about the size of a Ping-Pong table, lying around the building might arouse suspicion.
"The idea was to ask the administration to be more transparent," Gollan said.__ Jon Cuba, a junior, who is one of the occupiers, said that, as they planned the action, he and the others were concerned that the barricade panels, each about the size of a Ping-Pong table, lying around the building might arouse suspicion.
But as Todd Gitlin shows in his new book Occupiers were suspicious of leaders -- not only politicians, but also movement leaders, concerned that big personalities within OWS might undermine the movement's egalitarian character.
Their mockers understood, however, that, as far as most of the country was concerned, the battle of images was the only one that these gun-toting occupiers would be fighting.
Second, military planners were concerned about Afghanistan's long history of resisting foreign invaders and wanted to avoid the appearance of being occupiers.
In an extraordinary development, a growing number of Sunnis who had sympathized with the insurgency or even fought American forces were now more concerned with removing Al Qaeda from their midst — so much so that they had chosen to ally with their supposed occupiers.
He said he would consider any troop requests in the coming weeks, but told Bloomberg News that he was concerned about "the implications of significant additional forces in terms of the foreign footprint in Afghanistan, whether the Afghans will see this as us becoming more of an occupier or their partner, and how do you differentiate those".
(Not that we're doing so great on race: Birthers. Or class: Typical right-wing response to Occupiers voicing legitimate concerns about income inequality, "Get a job!") I don't even need to reach back to the Herman Cain blame-the-victim carnival to make my case.
