Todd Gitlin has written an amazingly articulate expression of the history, aims, and “feel” of the Occupy movement.  The following does an amazing job of explaining (at least for me)  the appeal,  the effects,  and the values of Occupy,  and is,  by virtue of that,  an expression that ventures close into theological territory,  for it hits around the universals of community and interdependence:

Is it reasonable to speak of success when the plutocracy prevails, when big money still dominates official politics, when the investment banks and their executives thrive with impunity under minimal regulation, when corporate power still rules markets and melts icecaps? Despite a world of change it has not achieved, the movement can still take a certain success to heart—can feel success—even if, at some level, it still disbelieves what it has wrought. It burst out of nowhere. Its interior bonds, many of them, are intense. Enough of its inner life satisfies enough of its inner core. Arrests, and the insults and injuries meted out by the police and their ideological cheering squads, consolidate bonds. If the working groups and decision-making structures are only intermittently functional, they have created a sort of way of life. However outlandish that way of life may look to traditionalist outsiders, outlandishness is—to the core—proof that they are authentically resistant.

Gitlin, Todd (2012-05-01). Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street (Kindle Locations 1595-1601). Harper Collins, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

with the phrase “outlandishness is—to the core—proof that they are authentically resistant”,  I am reminded a bit of the reassurance Paul articulates for the Christian church in identifying the way of the church as being at odds with the ways of the world;  the “status quo”.  The crux is here: “Be not conformed to this world,  but be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of your minds”