Occupy The Conventions: Where Are The Protesters At The DNC, RNC?
Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 3:44 pm
By Eyder Peralta
... Throughout the week, Occupy has planned many protests. The largest one happened Sunday but drew only a few hundred protesters. That same night Occupy the DNC, planned a "Free Bradley Manning Party," at a big park on the outskirts of town. At about 10 p.m., there were at least 30 police officers but no protesters ...
I walked with the protest crowd from the east side of downtown to the west side of it. It was an aimless route. They said they would hit the headquarters of Bank of America, but that never happened ...
Travis Cummins, 27, of the Memphis group Socialist Alternatives, said that what Occupy did was point out the elephant in the room — the problem of income inequality and oversized corporate influence on politics.
"We woke up to the problem," he said. "But that's only the first step. Obama hasn't addressed a single issue. He hasn't addressed jobs; he hasn't addressed education or the injustice system" ...
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