“We are the 99%! We will be heard! There are criminals on Wall Street who walk free, there are protesters in jail…There’s something wrong with this system. We are the 99%! We will be heard!”
He handled it graciously by smiling throughout and then by asking them if they feel better. He was also sure to point out his agreement with the Occupy Wall St. movement, saying,
“I’m very much involved with the 99. I’ve been condemning the 1%…the people on Wall street got the bailouts and you guys got stuck with the bill and I think that’s where the problem is.”
And here’s a post-trial interview by Pete Eyre of CopBlock.org who wore his hat through the entire trial, including when he was called to the witness stand!: (more…)
Free Keene TV‘s Michele Seven reports in from Occupy Wall St. and asks why you aren’t there. I support what Michele is doing, but I have enough on my plate here in Keene. The real question, is where are all the supposed New York liberty people? Are they there? If not, why not? I’ll be at Occupy Keene tomorrow. Here’s her blog from facebook:
Well I am sitting in a coffee shop in Brooklyn with a freestate friend who has generously put me up while I am here in NY for the OWS outreach that I have committed to doing since first hearing about this occupation. (more…)
There were a few anarchists in the town where I grew up, and a lot more in the city nearby. But perhaps because these individuals were not as organized as Keeniacs, the activism in which I participated seemed to live or die with my action.
I could get a few of my friends together and shout from a megaphone and sign-wave in Rittenhouse Park. We would go “Robin-Hooding,” where individuals feed parking meters for strangers in an attempt to “cost” the State the “revenue” of the ticket. But even in a city of 1.5 million, there were only a handful of us doing activism on a regular basis. “What’s the deal?” I wondered.
