Seriously, people at the rally were congratulating each other on which signs were the most fear inducing. Only crazy homeless people that hold up signs about the apocalypse would pay attention, everyone else sees us as conspiracy theorists.
Yes! it's just like the anti-war movement, they blame everybody but themselves. Even though they don't morally support wars, their lifestyles support the oil industry and isolation from each other, which inevitably leads to seeing others as non-humans. Most of the anti-Monsanto crowd don't realize that if they were billionaires they would be trying to maximize profits and destroy the competition as well, because that's part of the American way of life.
I don't believe the OCA will do much good unless the movement becomes locally based and off the Internet. Despite what the media says, the revolutions in the Middle East did not come about from online social networking. Without the vibrant, educated communities in the physical world, organizing and informing on Face book wouldn't have been enough.
