Editor's Note: Writer and political activist Steve Iskovitz has occasionally emailed around updates from Occupy Wall Street. I asked him recently if he minded if I posted them and he said No. So, here's his latest update, from Nov. 23:
It's been slow around here since my last post. Strange to
say this, since up to recently things have been frantic.
We're still hanging in, securing housing for ourselves and
running meetings again. I went to a spokes council meeting the other night. It
was kind of nice to see the process functioning. Spokes council is a cumbersome
process, but it's quite democratic. Of course, it's a messy process, lots of
arguments, and then the next day everyone else yells about the decisions made.
Once you explain the reasons, they lower the volume of their yelling a bit. I
suppose groups making decisions about how to conduct themselves is by nature
complicated and controversial and always will be.
