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After their May Day activities, the Occupy Rochester crew marched back to Washington Square Park for pizza and music and talk. There they had pitched their tents during that phase of their existence.

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`Ohno-moment May 6, 2012
yep
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=pearwood May 6, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
:nod:
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*AfricanObserver May 6, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Is that what the masks are about.

Guess I'm conflicted about the whole #Occupy thing - protesters who can afford pizza and a sound system? I'm used to protests starting by burning a few tyres, and then heading south from there. I'm not used to people with brick houses protesting. There were some recent changes with a R1.50/km toll proposal up in Joburg - everyone was anti that.

And wealth is unfairly distributed. Ask the people who used to be small scale and subsistence farmers, how large interests (corporate and national) have destroyed that, and their ability to feed themselves. It's going to be interesting to see how the next couple of decades pan out.

But I'm beginning to rant. Thanks for sharing - it gives insight to 'real' life a bit!
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=pearwood May 6, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
In many ways it's this generation's version of the antiwar protests I grew up with in the late sixties, and, like those, this one is multigenerational. They don't have everything right, but they have a lot right.
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*AfricanObserver May 6, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Dynamic systems need tension, I guess. Without it, the whole system becomes unbalanced. Sometimes the tension holds, and sometimes, things snap.
I agree that some noise needs to be made, but I guess I don't know where they are going - what their goal is?
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=pearwood May 6, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
I think the "we are the 99%" catches the idea pretty well as the gulf between the very rich and the serfs continues to widen.
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*AfricanObserver May 8, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
I get the 99% bit. Hey, I live in Africa... poverty here has meaning.

But what do they want to do?
Winning a war and winning the peace are rather different. Karl Marx tried to solve this problem too, but all that tends to happen is that you get a new 1%.

I believe that hearts and souls need to change, and that solution isn't political or even social.
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*DocMallard May 5, 2012
Interesting!

Guy Fawkes was a terrorist attempting to force catholicism on a protestant nation through mass murder!

-Doc
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=pearwood May 5, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Indeed. He has been rather rehabilitated in being adopted by much less violent protest groups.
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*DocMallard May 5, 2012
I think they just wear the masks to hide from cops and make themselves think they are something they aren't!

-Doc
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