Occupy Portland -- the Pearl District expansion.

I wasn't there at the 4:00 hour when they were supposed to start, but at 5:00, there wasn't much going on at Jamison Square, which is quite the disparate anomaly of Occupy Portland's standard crowd of thousands.

The media expectation far exceeded the actual turnout, as witnessed by the satellite poles, sitting amid Kenny Scharf's totem poles.

The problem for Occupy Portland's attempts to move into the Pearl District, is that they misunderstood what the Pearl District represents: mixed use, including several buildings dedicated to low-income renters. And it also hurt their image, that they were going to occupy a park that is well known in the City of Portland, as a family-centric park, all year-round.

The people using the park aren't 1% people, but 99% folks.  It was a bad miscalculation on the Occupy Portland movement, and part of the reason for this mistake is due to its lack of central message.  In this case, a splinter group wanted to make a case for legal camping in public parks.  This has more to do with homelessness and less about the 1%, but because the movement is directionless, it has given way to these splinter groups.

What they need to do, is focus on how to decrease the disparity between the 1% and the 99%, by legal, public coercion of corporate officers and their companies, and the first target should be, obviously, banks.

To start, march daily to local branches of banks and protest in front of them for a couple of hours (before moving on to the next spot), whose corporate officers earn over 100x the average bank worker's salary.  The goal is to get those banks (and their corporate officers) to agree to capping their total compensation at 100x.

That is what I would do.