As of 10:00am today, there have been a total of 1,786 protest related arrests. From listening to the protestors as I walk past them in the East Village, it now seems to be cool and an honor to have multiple arrests under your belt. People mill about in groups sharing their arrest experiences and try to one up one another in telling their own tale of what they did to fend off police .

Yes, they are violent and they are proud of it. But what of there message? IÂ’ve been getting emails with questions about this very thing. You are puzzled as to why there have been so many arrests. What are they trying to do/accomplish or say? Well Jeff Jarvis, commenting about this phenomenon yesterday in his blog sheds some light on these very questions and poses one of his own:
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