I’m not the only one to have doubts about the strategy of stopping ports from operating and keeping workers from earning a day’s wage. I have a feeling I’m not the only one who likes to earn money to put food on the table and have a warm and safe home for my family—even if it is an apartment I rent rather than an “American Dream” house I own.

At first, I wondered whether the Occupy Movement people were just dreaming that they could actually shut down West Coast ports on this day, postponing imports and exports. Then I realized what started as Occupy Wall Street has grown and spread throughout the country and even to other countries around the world.

Perhaps their momentum is enough that they can do what they say and shut down West Coast ports.

Yesterday the Occupy Movement did succeed in disrupting operations at ports along the west coast. In some cases, they caused delays, keeping trucks backed up from port entrances and in other cases kept whole shifts from working ports.

U.S. importing and exporting by no means has been stopped. And maybe these protests and picket lines of December 2^nd that have slowed port production on the west coast won’t cause corporations and the 1% to feel pinched. But maybe there was another goal accomplished.

Maybe the Occupy Movement is simply getting people’s attention. Maybe that will wake people up to various possibilities for creating positive change. And maybe, we’ll be able to come up with better ways to change the status quo than shutting down the ports through which our economy is fed in the global market. Maybe.

There definitely is a sense of unrest in the nation. More people certainly will be joining the Occupy Movement. Many more protests will be seen from them. Do you have better ideas for change? Share them.