What Should Occupy Wall Street Do Now?

Three organizing ideas and five policy ideas that could make the protests even more successful.

By Eliot Spitzer | Posted Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at 2:50 PM ET

This is the question frequently—and properly—asked of Occupy Wall Street and its fans. Those of us who have written and spoken vigorously in support of OWS and for its capacity, almost unparalleled in today’s political environment, to shift our political focus, have an obligation to contribute our answers to the question of what OWS should do. We should answer not because there is any reason for this organic movement—which has done just fine without advice from outsiders—to listen to any of the advice rendered, but because it will help those of us outside the movement clarify our own political ideas.