What Occupy Wall Street Wants - Carl Franzen - TPM Idea Lab

For weeks now, mainstream media outlets, and some in the movement itself, have struggled with one pervading question about the Occupy Wall Street protesters who began gathering in Zuccotti Square on September 17: What do they want?

It’s very clear, after all, what they don’t want: That is, they don’t want the economic or social status quo to continue unabated.

But now, there may be something approaching consensus emerging, at least via the movement’s Tumblr blog and guerrilla PR team.

On Sunday, prolific ecofinance blogger and Roosevelt Institute Fellow Mike Konczal, akaRortybomb, posted an eye-opening analysis of the movement’s ideology based entirely on the wording of protesters’ signs that appear in the Tumblr blog’s photos.

Konczal explained his methdology as follows:

“I created a script designed to read all of the pages and parse out the html text on the site. It doesn’t read the images (can anyone in the audience automate calls to an OCR?), just the html text. After collecting all the text on all the pages, the code then goes through it to try to find interesting points.”

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