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#OccupyWallStreet

I went to #OccupyWallStreet.  I was curious about what was happening there because I had heard conflicting accounts.  It was in Zuccotti Park down on Broadway. We came during the general assembly which is a daily status meeting.  Speakers shouted phrases and the crowd repeated them.  It was drizzling.  There was about 100 people there. Signs. Two signs.  I talked to the lady on the right, she moved to the US from Puerto Rico in 1964, now she lives in Fort Greene. She showed me the other side of her painting.  It was odd.  "?" Here is a picture of my parents.  Dr. Cornel West has his back to them.  He had just finished speaking, about revolution and making the...

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