“There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” Buffalo Springfield’s iconic 1960s protest anthem might have been talking about the protestors in Zuccotti Park. What, exactly, is Occupy Wall Street?
Over the past weekend, I had the opportunity to observe the #occupyLA protestors camped out at City Hall. Among the myriad of signs, people, food and song, a real paradigm shift was occurring.
Protestors have been occupying Zuccotti Park since September 17. Welcome to liberal populism for the 21st Century.
“It’s interesting what discourse you can have with hundreds of people packed together,” said Avery Barger PZ ‘12. Saturday, a Global Day of Action for the Occupy movement, featured ten to fifteen thousand Angelenos marching to Pershing Square.
Over the weekend, Staff Writer Summer Dowd-Lukesh SC ’14 traveled into Los Angeles to attend the OccupyLA protest. She took pictures of some of the best signs she saw there.
An unsettling image of Oakland, as its Occupy demonstration escalated into a full-scale riot last Tuesday night, left viewers around the country to assume that this was just the Oaklandish way to Occupy Wall Street.
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