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OWS: 84-year-old woman gets peppers sprayed; Amazing marketing; A lesson from a Dog; Cops arrest Cops?

Occupy Wall Street continues on. The politicians must be getting worried at this point, two months in and people are not letting up. I'm sure no one expected the 'ADD-Twitter-Post-MTV' generation to have this kind of staying power.

OWS has gone from being branded a 'bunch of communists' and being told to 'get a job' to now being seen as a bunch of people 'determined to change the system' - ironically, this is why people voted for Obama (he was suppose to be changing the system). OWS is quickly becoming a vehicle for those disappointed that Obama did not bring hope or change to the country (at least I think it is).

Anyway, some interesting videos associated with OWS that caught my attention this week:

Pepper spray makes a return. Student protesters get doused by the cops.



84 year old protester gets pepper sprayed by the police.
(Really? spraying old ladies might go down as one of the dumbest PR moves of the police yet.)



Ok, now this is amazing. I don't know how they did this, but this is top-notch marketing tactics right here. OWS used a projector of some kind - very Batman-esque - to project a message on the Verizon Building in New York while protesters were marching towards the Brooklyn Bridge.






A protester's dog and a police officer's horse play around at OWS (if only humans got along so well).



And perhaps one of the most telling videos that sums up what is going on with OWS is the video of a Retired Police Chief who joined OWS and who the police actually arrested.

You know things are upside down when you have police arresting police. If that's not a warning to politicians that over the long run using the police to squash the protesters will be a failed strategy, I don't know what is.






As this PR war for the hearts and minds of Americans plays out, right now I'd say OWS is winning the war. Not decisively just yet, there's still plenty of folks that don't support or like them, but those numbers are less today than they were two months ago.

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