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transitfan,

First, I really appreciate the way you're 'reading' Freire across the settings of classrooms, social movements, etc.  Your contrast of Earth Quaker Action Team and Occupy with regard to acting out of love is an insight I find provocative; is this partly about ecology and economy?

I'm also glad you raised the pedagogy of codification (which is really part of the whole conscienticion process), and I too find the visual of the drunk helpful in understanding this.  I'm thinking about this in relation to 'buy-in,' your phrasing later in the passage, and wondering whether these two are contradictory in an essential way (that may be in Freire's work as well as your comment).  Looking for participant buy-in suggests to me an impositional curriculum, whereas codification is supposed to come from the inside out or the ground up, so to speak...  What do you think?