NYC activists differ on Occupy's direction

Fresno Bee ^ | March 18, 2012 | by Karen Matthews

[Oldeconomybuyer]

NEW YORK -- A day after police broke up a rally at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and arrested dozens, Occupy Wall Street protesters said Sunday that their movement for economic justice would pick up momentum with the spring.

Activists listed issues including student debt, the environment and the November elections as priorities going forward.

"I'm really grateful to be part of a generation that wants change, 'cause we should all want change," said Jennifer Campbell, a graduate student in documentary filmmaking at Hofstra University. "But I'm not sure what that change is, or if they know what that change is."

Occupy activists said the officers moved in with little warning and beat some protesters.

"They just came in swinging batons," said protester Sandra Nurse. She said another protester's head was "smashed into a building window."

Ted Schulman, an Occupy protester who lives near Zuccotti, said his focus is the upcoming United Nation Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. He said he wants to "challenge the U.N. on what their vision of a green economy is."

Harlem resident Kanene Holder said the movement is broader than any one issue. "This is not a beauty pageant," she said. "We cannot homogenize this movement into one streamlined vision."

"I understand the Occupy movement," Cummings said. "I understand a lot of people's frustration. I'm not sure how effective it is. ... Nothing seems to be being accomplished."

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Wankers.

[I see my hands]

"Wankers"

Soon they will control what you create. Words will never stop them.

[Carl LaFong]

Let’s see.
Rape or defecate on police cruisers?
Rape or defecate on police cruisers?

Always a tough decision.

[Libloather]

"But I'm not sure what that change is, or if they know what that change is."

Hussein knows - and they won't like it.

[Army Air Corps]

"I'm really grateful to be part of a generation that wants change, 'cause we should all want change," said Jennifer Campbell, a graduate student in documentary filmmaking at Hofstra University. "But I'm not sure what that change is, or if they know what that change is."

"What do we want?" "We don't know!" "When do we want it?" "Now!"

[leenie312]

Are they still occupying somewhere?

[griswold3]

“Hussein knows - and they won’t like it.” The few that know the Progressive agenda believe that they will be the ones benefitting...er...ah...implementing the ‘change’.

[Viking2002]

"I'm really grateful to be part of a generation that wants change, 'cause we should all want change," said Jennifer Campbell, a graduate student in documentary filmmaking at Hofstra University. "But I'm not sure what that change is, or if they know what that change is."

Both the assertion and the proof that these people don't have a brain or a place to put one is encapsulated in that one small paragraph.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920