Occupy movements nationwide celebrate holiday

AP/WorldMag ^ | Nov 24, 7:14 PM EST | BETH DUFF-BROWN

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Most Americans spent Thanksgiving snug inside homes with families and football. Others used the holiday to give thanks alongside strangers at outdoor Occupy encampments, serving turkey or donating their time in solidarity with the anti-Wall Street movement that has gripped a nation consumed by economic despair.

In San Francisco, 400 occupiers at a plaza in the financial district were served traditional Thanksgiving fixings sent by the renowned Glide Memorial Church to volunteers and supporters of the movement fighting social and economic inequality.

"We are thankful that we are, first and foremost, in a country where we can protest," said the Rev. Cecil Williams, the founder of Glide and a fixture in the city's activist community. "And we are thankful that we believe that there are things that could be worked out and that we have a sense of hope. But we know that hope only comes when you make a stand."

[FlingWingFlyer]

Yup. And they are supposed to be “the future”. I think America is in big trouble.

[Lumper20]

The progressive movement goes back to sad ass Teddy Roosevelt.Yes,he was born wealthy as hell, and; he was ashamed his father never fought in the war. He was the jerk who started the social medicine idea. History forgets that land made money and was the only thing taxed, and; every darn one of these progressive bums then had a chance to hitch their wagon up for a homestead/LAND. Lazy then as is now.