A number of the usual suspects—the People's Park crowd, and Gray Panther types with steel wire hair. Note two girls with covered heads, and the traditional-seeming white couple next to them. No organized left (the RCP was having a dollar-book sale at their HQ .25 miles away instead, the ISO sent nobody over) which is by now no surprise to anyone. I've been saying for the last decade that the reason I didn't join or rejoin any group was because I left that the organized left as constituted was existing at right angles with the social forces that pushed people to the left. Well, tada, I was right again, and even in Berkeley.
Somewhat related: don't take this link as a suggestion to read Above Top Secret regularly, but this guy had some interesting comments about his trip to Occupy Wall Street:
I left the protest about two hours after visiting. I left embarrassed and rather ashamed, to be honest. All this time I had been calling them welfare-addicts, hand-out lovers, lazy bums, socialist/communists, and all the names under the rainbow. But when I left it gave me an entirely new opinion of them. Sure there are a few nuts there, aren’t there nuts everywhere?
And, finally, http://www.occupywriters.com/ (Some background on the page can be found here.)