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That the occupy movement had taken to bring in these big, large, warm, secure army tents that can be used for building institutions and so on. taking those down is a terrible blow. what happens next, i don't know. i just came from the park and they have their nightly general assembly. their direct democracy sort of activity. and it was, i have to say, the most energetic, the most joyous one i've seen there in all the time i've been covering this. and there's a lot of adrenaline going around. but, you know, after a day of real police violence, the dominant emotion wasn't anger, it was kind of j...

And everyone knows what that is. a statement against our economy that the system is only working for the most powerful people in the country anymore. 0 occupy wall street is famous by now. everybody understands the basics. less famous and less understood is occupy, occupy wall street. that is not a teleprompter error. occupy, occupy wall street is an actual thing, an actual satire thing. it is, as far as i can tell, two guys pretending to be the 1%. they are occupying occupy wall street. see their signs? thanks bloomberg,ing 1% stick together. and rere-elect bloomberg. get it because he is alr...

The movement when the tents came out, when they erected tents on the site. i thought about that today, when we had multiple reports that police were using knives to physically shred the heavy duty tents, the military-grade tents people thought would be key to how they would survive winter. we don't have footage of that. we've seen multiple reports. we have footage of police using portable hand held saws to saw down the tent poles from the tents. how to you feel like the movement will be effected by that in particular? >> by the tearing down of tents? make the distinction between the small sort...

>> i'm going to stay here and i'm going to put my tent right back up. we show them that we are not just words on internet screen. we are people. and we are willing to put ourselves in pain and misery to put our point across. >> how important is the occupation to occupy wall street? >> i think it's very important. this is the location, this is the scene of the crime. and we need a critical mass of people. when people get together and they talk face to face and have a library and people are coming down to talk and organize and -- it's what's needed. you can't do everything on the internet. >> th...

Co-founding member of occupy writers, a group of writers that came out in support of the occupy movement and will assist with the effort to rebuild the occupy wall street library and a contributor at "rolling stone" where we has a piece in the current issue chronicling the rise of the current issue. i know you and other occupy writers folks have talked about ways to help the occupy wall street library. why do you think that library is important? >> the library embodies the imagine nation, the driving force of this thing. a lot of people who haven't had a chance to visit it get caught up on pol...