"But, in the end, the point of Occupy Wall Street is not its platform so much as its form: people sit down and hash things out instead of passing their complaints on to Washington. “We are our demands,” as the slogan goes. And horizontalism seems made for this moment. It relies on people forming loose connections quickly—something that modern technology excels at."

The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street by Mattathias Schwartz in the New Yorker.

A friend of mine recently asked if it mattered whether people who signed up to our Winter B-icicle Challenge actually bothered riding their bike every day. Wasn’t it more important that they simply signed up and showed their support? After all, did it matter if people who did the 40 Hour Famine cheated or not? They still raised money.

I said it did, because in carrying out our challenge (riding to work or school everyday throughout winter) you were actually fulfilling our purpose - which is to advocate bike riding and get more bikes on the road. Every challenger on the road, on each day, would be a riding advertisement for biking.

We are our demands.