The Occupy movement has received a fair amount of flak recently for several West Coast group’s “Occupy the Ports” activities. Occupy protestors argue that closing the ports sends a message to the richest corporations by effectively preventing their business in that area. Opponents of the port protests argue that these protests “hurt the working- and middle-class wage-earners the Occupy movement purports to represent.” What are your thoughts on these protests? What forms of protests would you advocate instead if any?
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