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Originally Posted by AGDee

The Talker and his new gf are very into this and are part of the planning group for Occupy Detroit. From what I've read on the Occupy Detroit Facebook page, they are the Tea Party's liberal counterpart. They are protesting the "Rich get richer, poor get poorer" trend and are angry that the politicians aren't listening to the bottom 99%, just the top 1% and meeting corporate interests, not the interests of the people. That's the gist of the posts I'm reading anyway.

Occupy Detroit is scheduled for 10/21.

This explains it for me. The major parties must be frustrated that the two "splinter groups" are starting to thrive outside their nomenclature.