Occupy Wall Street was successful in the sense that it caught people's attention. However, I think the protest gained attention for the wrong reasons. Rather than being about the actual issue, media and publicity accused the protest for being a disturbance to the public. Occupy Wall street was unclear in stating what goals they were hoping to achieve and lacked any sort of spokesperson. It appeared the protest was more concerned with publicity than making any sort of change. In my opinion, Occupy Wall Street was the least bit successful.
To improve its approach, I would have created an organized plan in order to make a certain statement. I would not have wanted people to make a huge disturbance to the public. I think this disturbance took away from the actual message they were trying to get across. I would have an assigned spokesperson and a unified message. I also would create a specific route and time frame for when and where the protest would take place. The main problem with this protest was no unified message. In no way did Occupy Wall street change public opinion. If anything, the protest turned away the public rather than grabbing their attention.
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