When you’re a complete failure you take any victory you can get.

(State Journal-Register) — The Occupy movement should take credit for chasing the G-8 Summit out of Chicago in May, a founder of the radical 1970s Weather Underground said in Springfield Tuesday.

“They realized the couldn’t actually put on their little show of power,” Bill Ayerstold about 50 people at the Golden Frog Cafe in an appearance hosted by a new Springfield group, Foundation for a United Front. “It’s a defeat for them and a victory for the people’s movement.”

The G-8 Summit brings together leaders of the world’s largest economies. The upcoming summit was abruptly moved to Camp David this week.

Ayers spoke about activism. He said he thinks it’s good that the Occupy movement doesn’t have a single focus.

It creates a public space, he said, “where every grievance is welcome.”