occupations are spaces where people practice "alternative lifeways"
they are designed "to allow unceasing discourse demanding the official governments respond to the needs of their people rather than to the needs of global capital"
"the governments involved [have] to face either siccing their police and militaries on their own people, or waiting out the occupations for what could be months, or actually changing in the ways demanded. Time to dismiss the people and elect another one! as Brecht had so trenchantly phrased it."