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Eviction Will Rekindle the Occupy Fire

It’s the best way the protests could have ended.

If you count yourself among the 99 percent, don't be dispirited by early Tuesday's police raid on Zuccotti Park: It may look like the end of Occupy Wall Street, but it’s a development protesters should actually welcome, writes Matt Yglesias at Think Progress. “OWS was either going to end with the cops clearing the park, or else it was going to end with the protestors losing interest.” Without intervention, OWS was facing a demoralizing potential end when the winter hit. “The worst possible outcome is for the movement to just kind of fade away, and by trying to forcibly clear the park with the NYPD, Bloomberg has guaranteed that won’t happen.”