peace in the OWS threatened by pro-Palestinian African American lesbian amidst new cycle of drumming

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I have really enjoyed Megan McArdle’s Occupy Wall Street vs. the Drum Circle article, and here is a tidbit that I think ought to go down in history:

mediation with the drummers has been called off. It has gone on for more than 2 weeks and it has reached a dead end. The drummers formed a working group called Pulse and agreed to 2 hrs/day at times during the mediation, and more recently that changed to 4 hrs/day.
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Last night the drumming was near continuous until 10:30 PM at night. Today it began again at 11 AM. The drummers are fighting among themselves, there is no cohesive group.
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Unfortunately there is one individual who is NOT a drummer but who claims to speak for the drummers who has been a deeply disruptive force, attacking the drumming rep during the GA and derailing his proposal, and disrupting the community board meeting, as well as the OWS community relations meeting. She has also created strife and divisions within the POC caucus, calling many members who are not ‘on her side’ “Uncle Tom”, “the 1%”, “Barbie” “not Palestinian enough” “Wall Street politicians” “not black enough” “sell-outs”, etc. People have been documenting her disruptions, and her campaign of misinformation, and instigations. She also has a documented history online of defamatory, divisive and disruptive behavior within the LGBT (esp. transgender) communities.
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At this point we have lost the support of allies … We have sadly demonstrated to them that we are unable to collectively 1) keep our space and surrounding areas clean and sanitary, 2) keep the park safe, 3) deal with internal conflict and enforce the Good Neighbor Policy that was passed by the General Assembly.

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Sadly, this seems to be why a group cannot be tolerant and inclusive of absolutely everybody. If they are, eventually someone will come into the group who will take advantage of that tolerance to act like a complete ass.

It’s hard to be tolerant of an intolerant, divisive, rude self-absorbed person.