Burkle is best known for his investments in grocery companies and has good relations with unions. Both Ross and Burkle are billionaires. Dutro was wary about Ross and Burkle's stake in Amalgamated but said "the people in that bank and in their management are very committed to their principles, and I really don't see them being co-opted by a couple of vultures.
Dutro, who has a background in operations management at Internet services companies, said the amount raised so far should be taken in context. You have a huge community — we're bigger than most of the occupations — and we probably spent a lot more money," he said. While Occupy Wall Street has had attention over its money and whether it should share with movements in other cities, most camps say they are just fine on their own.
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Many activists love meetings. White is not one of them. Holmes, however, is a meetings person. And she was not alone. In a film she made about OWS called All Day All Week , we see a number of mostly young people excited by outreach meetings, actions groups, legal groups, communications groups, town planning, treasury and comfort groups, food committees and student assemblies.
There was even a demands group, that duly failed to come up with any demands. In the film you can see a performative aspect to the occupation, and not just in the drummers and buskers who seem to provide an endless noisy soundtrack to the proceedings.
Although the autumnal weather soon turned cold, people kept coming in the early days, and the crowds kept swelling. The police made continual attempts to stem the flow by insisting that all tents and permanent structures be removed, but Liberty Plaza, as it was renamed by the protesters, held firm.
On 25 September, protesters marched from the plaza to Union Square, where the police pepper-sprayed screaming demonstrators and arrested dozens of activists. The scenes were captured on smartphones and quickly went viral, turning up on the evening news, which served to bring more people to the protest. There were also celebrity visitors, such as the film-maker Michael Moore and the radical academic Cornel West. A rumour also went round that Radiohead were going to pay a visit and play a concert in solidarity.
Had the band actually turned up, there is the question of whether they would have been allowed by the occupiers to perform, and how long it would have taken to reach that decision. After 20 minutes of listening to this back and forth, Lewis left, having not addressed the gathering. Although the Radiohead rumour was soon exposed as false, more people came flocking to the plaza un New York.
For one young protester from Brooklyn, the new arrivals were not a wholly positive development. Cantave herself only spent one night sleeping out in the plaza. It was not always a safe space for women or female-presenting, female-identified people.
Yet by comparison with sleeping out elsewhere in the city, it was relatively safe. As one witness testifies in All Day All Week , horizontalism faltered when it met homelessness. No one had the expertise or knowledge to deal with people who had really been let down by the system they were all protesting against. Cantave says she can remember a lively discussion about whether they were organising a protest project or providing social services.
The fact is, even in the most egalitarian of settings, some people are practised in discursive dynamics and others struggle to make their voices heard. It was amazing. To the academic, it was a theory that had been put into practice. Some of his fellow protesters were committed on a more practical level.
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