Will OWS Hibernate For The Winter?

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John Heilemann has reason to believe so:

It’s perfectly possible that … the raucous events of November 17 were the last gasps of a rigor-mortizing rebellion. But no one seriously involved in OWS buys a word of it. What they believe instead is that, after a brief period of retrenchment, the protests will be back even bigger and with a vengeance in the spring—when, with the unfurling of the presidential election, the whole world will be watching. Among Occupy’s organizers, there is fervid talk about occupying both the Democratic and Republican conventions. About occupying the National Mall in Washington, D.C. About, in effect, transforming 2012 into 1968 redux.

(Photo: An Occupy Philly camp area is seen after the 5 pm deadline to clear the encampment expired November 27, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The city has issued a summons to protesters to leave the site where almost 50 members of Occupy Philadelphia are demonstrating. By Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)