Why are you occupying Lee Park?

By David McNair |
Published online 1:58pm Wednesday Oct 19th, 2011
and in print issue #1042 dated Thursday Oct 20th, 2011

Jon Grainger: "We came to a democratic decision to occupy the park in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement that is sweeping across America. We live in a town of one of our founding fathers, and when you read what he actually said, he warned us about this kind of tyranny, but he also said we would be given the tools in the Constitution to do something about it."

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Evan Knappenberger: "We're here for social and economic justice. We need to be responsible for everyone in the community. If one percent of the population wants to horde eighty percent of all the resources, that's definitely not justice. And we need to change that."

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Jamie Morgan: "We're here to stand up and support our fellow occupiers world-wide. People can no longer afford to be stomped on by corporate greed. People are really struggling and we are reaching a new level of class separation."

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