as you were introing and thinking about bridges, i keep thinking about the fact that it s the edmund petis bridge which is the moment, the turning point moment in the civil rights movement where finally you get a majority of the country on the side of civil rights protesters because as they re coming across that bridge they re turned back by the violence of local police. now, in this case what s been happening is that the occupiers are connecting with these local municipalities, with the mayors or with the police officers. and as fraught as that has been, as much as that has energized the movement and i think gotten even more people on the side of occupiers, it doesn t address this, as you say, parallel track. those local officials are under some of the same constraints that the 99% are. they are trying to deliver more and more services with fewer and fewer resources. and so that battle is insufficient. the real fight is this fight that is about whether or not we re going to actually g