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Scenes from Flood Wall Street, Occupy’s ‘Family Reunion’
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/flood-wall-street-occupys-family-reunion.html?mid=google&google_editors_picks=true-snip-
A baby at her breast, Stacey Hessler looks like a radical Madonna in pink Converse as she tries to avoid the NYPD officers arresting protestors during Monday's Flood Wall Street demonstration. This was her two-month-old daughter Joy’s second protest. Her first was Sunday’s Climate March.
“I’m here to connect climate change to Wall Street,” Hessler says as Joy cries in a swaddle, and helicopters circle overhead. “I was part of Occupy Wall Street and it kind of got tiring just protesting, because it seemed like we weren’t really changing anything.”
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