A couple of days ago, I reposted what I thought was an excellent article in Rolling Stone called Inside Occupy Wall Street, but Chuck Munson elected not to print it for some reason - whatever. 

I just wanted to make a couple of observations about what I saw at Occupy Chicago last weekend.  I was very late visiting the event, and it is starting to get chilly here, so I wasn't surprised to see that attendance at the site across from the Federal Reserve Bank and the Chicago Board of Trade was pretty sparse.  I talked to a few people, and got a general impression of camaraderie and solidarity, although some people seemed more connected to what was going on than others.  Just a few cops watching from accross the street around 10 PM, when I made it down there.

The next night I went to the General Assembly in the park at Congress and Michigan, which started off very small, and only made it up to about twenty or thirty people.  It was colder than it had been the previous night.  Very little was discussed aside from organizational topics (next GA time and place, committee stuff, etc.)  No cops around.  One guy I was talking to began telling me how important it was to start a "Workers Party", and another dude, who announced that his father (or uncle) is a Chicago alderman, proposed that a working committee be formed to establish a political party to support Occupy Chicago, as well as supporting sympathetic Democratic candidates in Chicago.  Amazingly, no one spoke up against this idea.  Now, I was very tempted to say something myself, but as this was my first time there, and I am old enough to be this guy's father, I thought I might come off as disruptive or bullying.  I did, however, post some comments at the Occupy Chicago web site's discussion board.

Frankly, I didn't hear anything at this GA that inspired me to get more deeply involved in what seems to be turning into just another leftist circle-jerk, at least in Chicago

We didn't approve it because the story had already been posted here a week earlier.