Posted on 11/18/2011 11:31:04 AM PST by BerniesFriend
‘Occupy’ movement pops up in Lafayette
On a crisp, clear afternoon in downtown Lafayette Thursday, fewer than a dozen residents gathered at the edge of Parc Putnam on Lafayette Street across from the federal courthouse to show their solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement — a protest movement targeting corporate excess that erupted in New York City early this fall and has spread to dozens of cities across the country and the world.
Thursday’s action was organized via social media by Lafayette resident Molly Baumgartner, a local representative of the liberal activist group MoveOn. Group members ranged in age from junior high to senior citizen. The youngest member of the ‘protest,’ 12-year-old Jackson Schneider of Lafayette, is a recent transplant from New York who said he sympathizes with the message of OWS.
“It’s not fair that someone on minimum wage makes $16,000 a year while some CEOs make $16,000 an hour,” the precocious tween said in the shadow of his parents.
The “Occupy Lafayette” event was a low-key affair: No slogans were chanted or epithets hurled. In fact, it didn’t even arouse the curiousity of security officials at the courthouse.
Too Funny
Choot em!
LOL, they must not have translated the add correctly. Clearly, they must have heard that protesters get paid, they forgot to ask if they could collect with out going to Chicago.
I like this one where the police chief told the protesters to sit there and freeze for all he cares.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2809454/posts
The youngest member of the ‘protest,’ 12-year-old Jackson Schneider of Lafayette, is a recent transplant from New York who said he sympathizes with the message of OWS.
“It’s not fair that someone on minimum wage makes $16,000 a year while some CEOs make $16,000 an hour,” the precocious tween said in the shadow of his parents.
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So sad to be so stupid at such a young age. And with parents like his... he is not likely to overcome it.
"Molly Baumgartner"
Oh yeah, she is a real local with a name like that. / s
Why not just say he lives in Lafayette, but is from New York? The Boudreaux's Comeaux's and Guilbeaux's who are actually from there are all occupying jobs.
LOL....I live here and this is the first I’ve heard of it....
My daughter is a court reporter for a Federal Judge in that Court Housse...
And he's not in school, because....?
LOL! Lafayette? How about occupying the Sun Belt Conference, losers.
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