First off Occupy Wall street was in the short term moderately successful considering it's ambiguous goals and moderate funding.(1) What 'killed' it the fact it lasted for months and people just started ignoring it. The simple truth is sitting around in parks is something homeless people do and as a protest it's just inflectional. As to dogs, well people with guns and riot gear showed up and said leave and don't come back, there is only so much you can occupy at that point. You can come back, but so do the people with guns and after a while that process will break most people.
(1) There are some pieces of legislation that where influenced by the occupy movement. But, it the impact was more a demonstration of an actual grass roots organisation demonstrating that people where unhappy. A few of of those organisations are still around they just don't get the same sort of press.
Anyway, compared to the environmental movement (aka stop killing people) or the civil rights movement saying bankers are fucking us over only get's so much play.
PS: Also, there where a lot of parks being occupied. However, the one in New York had a lot of symbolic value.
(1) There are some pieces of legislation that where influenced by the occupy movement. But, it the impact was more a demonstration of an actual grass roots organisation demonstrating that people where unhappy. A few of of those organisations are still around they just don't get the same sort of press.
Anyway, compared to the environmental movement (aka stop killing people) or the civil rights movement saying bankers are fucking us over only get's so much play.
PS: Also, there where a lot of parks being occupied. However, the one in New York had a lot of symbolic value.