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Occupy <Your Town>

Ysidro said:
There already were folks "occupying" Pittsburgh. First they wanted to do it in the neighborhood of Shadyside, like the usual lazy protestors who prefer to mess up local small businesses (and a few big ones, ask me about the G-whatever protestors and the Apple Store windows someday). Then they were covinced to move downtown with a legit marching route and everything.

Haven't heard much since, but I think there have been some folks still "dahntahn". Like most Pittsburghers, I don't go there much anyway. :D
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I work "dahntahn" about a block from where they are camped. I try to walk a mile every day at lunch and my route passes right in front of the park they are occupying. As of 2 days ago, all the tents seem to still be there but there seems to be very few actual protesters.
 
So St Pauls is to take legal action over the OLSX encampment.

Any Anglicans want to comment? Are there any Anglicans on here out there in existence?
 
The newspaper had a story about occupiers in my hometown, Arnhem. Apparently they are on a grassy spot between some quite busy roads, just on the edge of the centre and not really occupying anything useful.

I have a suspicion at least one of my friends will be there and plan to have a look tonight.
 
BNRT said:
The newspaper had a story about occupiers in my hometown, Arnhem. Apparently they are on a grassy spot between some quite busy roads, just on the edge of the centre and not really occupying anything useful.
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Are they actually protesting, or just staging a re-enactment of Operation Market Garden?

Dave
 
GStan said:
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I work "dahntahn" about a block from where they are camped. I try to walk a mile every day at lunch and my route passes right in front of the park they are occupying. As of 2 days ago, all the tents seem to still be there but there seems to be very few actual protesters.
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I work dahntahn as well, and I pass by there every day on my way home. It seems to me that there are a few more tents each day (although it looks like it's hit critical mass by now). I love the irony that they are "occupying" Mellon Green, by permission of the owner of the property, one of the largest financial institutions in the country--BNY/Mellon.

Here's a nice shot I found online: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6115/6264918806_afb97680dd_z.jpg
 
Jack by the hedge said:
In London, protesters are annoyed about the Daily Telegraph claiming they used thermal imaging to determine that only about 1 in 10 of their tents is occupied overnight.

"We are the 9.9%" perhaps.
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It would appear that strangely enough, modern tents are rather well insulated

Not grown up enough to post links yet but if you search "Exposed: Media fabricated 'empty tents' story at OccupyLSX" on that there Youtube you can see where the protesters have got the same camera and funnily enough you can't see in there's anyone in the tents.

IMO it would be quite obvious to the Telegraph reports that this was the case when they were there....
 
"Occupy" had some big clashes with the cops here. The last time I saw them was last Saturday, and it was almost all just "End the Fed" kids.

It just so happened to also be Zombie Crawl that day in the same area; pity there were no brains to be had. :D
 
Weak Kitten said:
It's amazing how much ground the anarchists have gained lately. I guess by pretending they want "smaller government" they can hide the absolute ridiculousness of their philosophy.
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Oh, come on. Having no regulations will surely place everyone on a level playing field, and distribute the wealth equally.
 
commandlinegamer said:
Glasgow's George Square has some tents occupying the grassy spaces, churning them into mud and mostly being ignored if what I saw the other day is anything to go by.
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In Dublin there are a few tents in the plaza around the Central Bank building.
I thought of them during the two days of torrential rain, freezing temperatures and high winds earlier this week.
And smirked.:p
I wonder how many of them voted yesterday.
 
Edinburgh has a similar group to that in Glasgow, based in St.Andrew Square.
http://occupyedinburgh.org/

Youthful protesters in support of a tax? A radical movement indeed.

Here's the Occupy Britain site, with a map of current active sites.
http://www.occupybritain.co.uk/

I'm unsurprised by Belz' "not American" reaction. It seems that the amount of publicity OccupyBritain is getting is far less than I would expect.
This may be due to nefarious suppression betwixt gummint and press, or because they have not advertised it very well.
I was unaware of the Glasgow and Edinburgh sites till this week.
 
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Dave Rogers said:
Are they actually protesting, or just staging a re-enactment of Operation Market Garden?

Dave
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The bridge in question (now called the John Frost bridge) is today maybe more inaccesible than it was during Market Garden, at least for cyclists anyway. Probably a lot less death nowadays, though.

I walked by today, saw them from a distance as I was tired and wanted to get the bus. Tomorrow seems to be good weather, so I plan to have a closer look.
 
There's an occupy Lansing thing going on. A friend has catered coffee and sandwiches to them, laughing at them all the while.

"What is the point of protesting until they get arrested, do they even know?"
 
I read an article in Macleans while in the dentists office the other day that had it down pretty well.

The difference between the "ultra rich" and middle class is not nearly as important as the gap between the ultra poor and the middle class. And the problem is a good portion of the "ultra rich" are people we make ultra rich by choice, movie stars, sports players , etc. The wallstreet folks are just getting the brunt of it because no one wants to protest tom cruise, or (forgive me for my dated sports reference, but i am not a sports guy.) Mario lemeux.

I mean, would these same people be supportive if the homeless started protesting them?
 
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