The article suggests that the experiences of the people of Argentina after their economic collapse in 2001 and others in coping with economic crises in recent times can provide useful lessons to today's Occupy Wall Street protest. Then it describes what is happening at the Wall Street Occupation.
These are just a handful of movements and grassroots initiatives that provide helpful models (in both their victories and failures) for decentralizing political and economic power, and putting decision making into the hands of the people.