In its heyday, Occupy Seattle drew near-daily media attention. Hundreds of people converged on Westlake Park, drawing dozens of police and a fleet of vans from local television news stations.

Media coverage was constant. The Seattle Times reported on the movement every day from Oct. 6 to Oct. 25, 2011. The newspaper mentioned Occupy Seattle in all but five of its editions in October.

New people seemed to be joining all the time. An Oct. 8 march between Westlake Park and the Bank of America plaza drew 1,000 people. Protests organized by labor groups, such as the shutdown of University Bridge on Nov. 17, ballooned with the ranks of newly minted Occupy Seattle participants.

Three months later, Occupy Seattle is making headlines for squatters, vandalism, and a quirky publicity stunt involving a bride and a building.

The last one's a good one: On Jan. 29, occupier Babylonia Aivaz staged a wedding in which she entered into matrimony with a Capitol Hill building slated for redevelopment.

The faux matrimony was covered with a wink and a chuckle on local television news. It was arguably more persuasive than the anarchy symbols and "Occupy Oakland" that someone spray-painted onto a Madison Park Wells Fargo Bank.

For Occupy Seattle, the honeymoon is over. The General Assembly, a consensus-based weekly meeting and governing body, makes it hard for the group to come to agreement over what directions to take. Meetings become overheated with unresolved arguments.

This indecision is compounded by the fact that people affiliated with Occupy Seattle have attempted to speak for other movements, and their efforts are not always welcome. An immigration rights group, El Comit