Posted on 10/15/2011 4:26:52 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
About 110 people are gathered outside the Franklin Street post office today for Occupy Chapel Hill, billed by organizers as a day of resistance: and occupation. Bill Sward of Hillsborough held a simple pole with an index-card size sign that said “99 percent.” Sward lost his cabinet maker job two years ago at age 66 when the company’s work slowed.
“The people who want there to be a point don’t get the point,” he said of the broadly anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street message. “This is about living, the quality of people’s lives. The government should be helping us live. Businesses should not determine how we live.” Participants included young anarchists, veterans of Vietnam and other protest movements and several people who said they had lost work in the past few years. “Someone asked me what groups are here,” said Katya Roytburd, 34, a UNC-Chapel Hill researcher and one of the organizers. “I said I honestly didn’t know. We’re just representing ourselves.”
Participants broke into small groups and will return later today to discuss next steps.
In Durham, organziers will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday for a People’s Assembly to consider proposals for an encampment. That meeting takes places on CCB Plaza downtown.
Also, I love how they're painting this whole movement as something spontaneous and transformative, as if there's something unprecedented about mobs of the same college "students" and aging hippies who have made up virtually every protest "movement" of the last 40 years.
I mean, for a movement supposedly made up of young people, has anyone else noticed that around 80% plus of the protesters quoted in Occupy Wall Street articles are over the age of 30? At least half seem to be over the age of 50.
These stories write themselves.....
Well, for those of you who don’t live in the area (I live in Raleigh, NC), we happen to refer to neighboring Chapel Hill, home of the University of North Carolina (UNC Tarheels), as “The People’s Republic of Chapel Hill”.
IOW....filled with f**king morons. ‘Nuff said.
66 year old cabinet worker, obviously no retirement plan eligible for Medicare and SSN already. Probably already lives off government.
I lived 15 minutes from Chapel Hill until I was 18 yrs old. If you’ve never lived there, you CANNOT imagine the kind of assorted nutz and dolts live in that town, especially in connection with the University of North Carolina — unless you are familiar with San Francisco. Think of Chapel Hill as the San Francisco Redux of the East Coast, and without the Pay or the Bridge....There ya go...
How many of these people get their money from some form of government largesse?
110 astroturfers protesting in front of the Post Office?? umkaaayy...
They are. They are preventing your neighbors from invading you and taking all your stuff.
-PJ
Rather stupid of them to invade and occupy their own base...
Check out the Occupy Arkansas thread for a comparison. It’s all orchestrated. Clearly.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793185/posts
In our part of the state, UNC is known as the Berkeley of the East. Great basketball but lots of freaks at the school.
As an NCSU graduate, it shames me that it all started with the commies at my alma mater letting Obama speak there recently. Stupid commies; spoiled rich kids at UNC, too protesting. Let them rot in their feces and maggots.
In our part of the state, UNC is known as the Berkeley of the East. Great basketball but lots of freaks at the school.
You are right and still don’t know the half of it. Carrboro, next to UNC is Commie-commie where by law if the women do shave their legs and armpits, they’re required by law to compost it. At Commie UNC, they do it voluntarily.
May I just say....Oh, gross. We have Guilford College nearby. They get along well with the UNC/Berkeley crowd. I’m sure they were protesting in solidarity today.
They ALREADY occupy Chapel Hell, why are they protesting? Haven’t they already turned CH and Carrboro into their own little workers’ paradise?
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The whole place is hippie heaven.
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