TPP in the USA Is Why We Occupy  Thursday, 19 September 2013
09:06 By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed   • Print   •
Email  From the Solidarity March going down Broadway from Union
Square to Wall Street, New York City, May 1, 2012.From the
Solidarity March going down Broadway from Union Square to Wall
Street, New York City, May 1, 2012. (Photo: erin m )   The
second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street came and went on
Tuesday with a fair degree of introspection in the socially
conscious corners of social media. What did it mean? What did it
accomplish? Is it over or just beginning?  More than a few
voices suggested the whole thing was nothing more or less than a
body-odor ego trip for righteousness junkies looking to lord it
over their less-invested activist counterparts. For some of the
people in those very large crowds, I'm sure that
characterization is true; shake a tree full of activists, and a
few rotten gourds are sure to fall and splatter.  The excellent
author Rebecca Solnit, in a Facebook post on