Au contraire. Please know you are doing just about everything right.

Of course it's a big, unwieldy experiment. Of course there's a learning curve. Of course there are blips and frustrations and huge uncertainties. And, yes, the messaging is a bit messy at times.

These are things that can normally sink a protest, so it's no surprise that there's plenty of impatience and criticism -- from outside and mostly from within the camp. But a genius ingredient that's been added to the mix of this global movement must be acknowledged and appreciated. It is time.

The fact that the Occupy Wall Street movement has been able to sustain its occupation over time has been the ground on which this global movement has arisen.

The national memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. was dedicated last Sunday. President Barack Obama said of Dr. King, "If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there." The dedication occurred amidst the increasingly popular and increasingly global Occupy Wall Street movement. What Obama left unsaid is that King, were he alive, would most likely be protesting Obama administration policies.

The year 1848 is noted for the revolutions that swept across much of Europe. Historians in the future may write of the revolutions of 2011. What started as a popular revolt in Tunisia in late 2010 and spread throughout the Arab world has now gone worldwide as people gather everywhere to protest the current order.

Here is a Globe and Mail commentary I wrote after attending the wonderful Occupy Toronto protests on the weekend.

The media keep going off about how this movement has no "central demand." Go to a Tea Party event in the U.S. and see if you can find "one central demand." That doesn't stop them from being politically influential. Their power and unity stems from an implicit common understanding that all problems are caused by "big government," and hence the solution to all problems is to shrink government.

It's the political puzzle of our times: Why, in the wake of the most spectacular failure of free-enterprise in 80 years, was it the global right that became stronger, not the left?

In the 1930s, the last time capitalism failed so destructively, radical opposition movements won the day: Demanding both immediate aid for the Depression's suffering, but also bigger structural changes in the economy. Pressured by these radical forces, governments' response went well beyond "stimulus." Instead, government was given powerful, countervailing powers to offset the skewed dominance of business and wealth -- everything from unemployment insurance to stronger regulations (aimed especially at finance) to union-friendly labour laws.

Just in time for the "Occupy Bay Street" protest this weekend, Canadian Business magazine has come out with its annual listing of the richest 100 people in Canada. So in honour of the protesters and their noble cause (demanding more attention to the 99 per cent, instead of the 1 per cent), let's peruse together the sordid details of Canada's ultra-rich.

Indeed, if there wasn't already a grass-roots surge of outrage against the excesses and privilege of the wealthy, this magazine alone could spark one. It is so unself-conscious and uncritical in its slavish reporting of the wonders of wealth, that one wonders if Canadian Business's editors have any awareness whatsoever of how most human beings actually live.