Occupy Wall Street took center stage last fall, galvanizing thousands of people across the country to protest against the abuses of what they called the “one percent.”
But one year after the movement began, it has been reduced to a shadow of its former self: Occupy’s makeshift camps have been shuttered, its membership has dwindled amid internal squabbling and what critics called a lack of direction and goals, and its hopes for social change so far have been unrealized…
So what are they gonna do? This again:
Amid this backdrop, Occupy protesters have organized a sit-down protest around the New York Stock Exchange in Wall Street on Monday, their one-year anniversary, hoping to regain some momentum…
Later that same weekend…
About 300 people observing the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street marched to a small concrete park in New York’s lower Manhattan that served as headquarters for the protest movement and was its birthplace.
Police patrolled the crowd Saturday and took at least a dozen people into custody near Trinity Church that borders Zuccotti Park. Police confirmed they made arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct, but they did not have a total number.
Protesters marched from Washington Square Park and headed south down Broadway to Zuccotti Park, chanting as they went. The group later thinned out…
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“What do we want?”
“To protest!”
“When do we want it?”
“Now!”
(repeat ad nauseam)
I hope they don’t come and crap all over our park and leave needles and garbage all over again like they did last year, with the blessings of the State.
The group later thinned out…
i.e. Somebody forgot to bring the dope.
You sure gotta admire their fortitude and determination.
cuz “camping” in a cement park is haaaard…
^ They’re gonna get piles!
—my nana
Later video showed that the thinning occurred as they marched passed the Apple Store.
Because giving up without accomplishing anything would make the movement look like just a bunch of brats with silly ideas.
They are thinning out because Mommy and Daddy can’t afford to send them allowance checks now that the ObamaEconomy is catching up to them….
Doug, ole buddy, you might be jist a little hard on these
mentals/criminals/crackheads/rapists/protestin peeps!I mean, shitting on the side of a police car in public in daylight w the crowd watching———is a clear sign of patriotic anquish; uhhh ain`t it??
[....unless is jist a really really bad case of: Green Apple Quickstep....]
I guess revolutionin’ ain’t enough to hold the attention span of your average occutard.
They
’re gonna getare piles!fifNana
ColJ,
Ain’t none’a ‘em would make it through
bootband camp.