A visit to Zuccotti Park in Wall Street yesterday with friend Mary Westring revealed, not rag-tag groupies smoking pot, but industrious activists of all shapes and sizes making signs, providing materials to make signs. I saw guys take off their t-shirts to get an OCCUPY WALL STREET sign silkscreened on the spot! There were white t-shirts available for those who preferred to let it dry!
Well organized, well publicized in several cities, a professionally printed newspaper to be distributed today
There is a kitchen receiving donations of food for the sleepovers (no mattresses allowed, just tarps to sleep under) and a list of activities for the day...
You can follow the Occupation here at: nycga.net, occupywallst.org; takethesquare.net; occupytogether.org; wearethe99percent.tumblr.com,
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I'm thankful that you've provided information. it's difficult to get unbiased reporting, and Amy Goodman is one of the few journalists I trust to report the facts and leave out the interpretation and editorial content. most of the coverage I've seen is negative - the pundits complain that the demonstrators "have no message". and I'm repeatedly hearing about how the people are dressed (expensive clothes), or that they're college kids bankrolled by their parents. and that this is nothing more than class warfare. I'm getting the distinct impression that reporters have the obscene notion that they ought to be the ones determining what precisely is worth protesting and what isn't. I'm not willing to surrender that decision to the corporate media.
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