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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 06:46 AM
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Occupy DC listens and learns
A confrontation in Washington's Freedom Plaza shows how a movement grows

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/19/occupy_dc_listens_and_learns/singleton

Occupy Wall Street
Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 2:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Occupy DC listens and learns
A confrontation in Washington's Freedom Plaza shows how a movement grows
By Jefferson Morley

Freedom Plaza encounter

A man named Kevin engages Occupy DC -- and wins (Credit: Jefferson Morley)
Topics:Occupy Wall Street

Two confrontations at the Occupy DC sites in Washington on Tuesday showed the movement grappling with — and enlarging — its understanding of free speech. While there is no reality to the right-wing media attacks on the movement as “anti-Semitic” (the McPherson Square occupation had its own sukkah for celebrating the Jewish holiday of sukkot), occupiers increasingly find themselves confronted by critics in person. How the protesters responded in
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Exultant Democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 07:04 AM
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1. Interesting story.
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 11:27 AM
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2. I thought so...
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Exultant Democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 12:13 PM
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3. I read this right after I read a story about a local occupy
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/searching_from_occupiers/

But I am running out the door so my thoughtful post on what I thought of the two when put together will have to wait.
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