I went to Occupy Wall Sts around the country, in DC, Nashville, Miami, Las Vegas, Sacramento, SF. Wildly different experiences, moments of intense idealism and dark nihilism. Lots of heartfelt expressions of anger at injustice and a lot of creepy conspiracy-mongering.

In Nashville met a really diverse group of farmers, local activists, people fed up with student/mortgage/medical debt, angry that the local economy was fueled by mega for-profit hospital and prison corporations. Really interesting mix.

In Sacramento, the days I went, Alex Jones fans had basically taken over the camp, focused on fluoride in the water-type conspiracy issues. The strange lefty-obsession with absolute consensus-based process allowed fringe groups to take over a lot of camps.

The most economic justice-focused events were in Las Vegas, where local unions provided a lot of leadership and pushed to harness the energy of Occupy into labor/wage issues, but that also faced pushback from the libertarianesque element of Occupy which distrusts all hierarchy.