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Keeping the peace at Occupy Boston
By adamg on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 12:07pm
The Nation spends some time at the encampment, reports on the struggle between the occupants of "Weird Street" and the rest of the encampment.
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Homeless people
I wonder if it was such a good idea to close the Boston Night Center last year after all. "Housing first" clearly hasn't worked for everyone.
I'm rather skeptical of how
I'm rather skeptical of how the media is trying to draw a distinction between "real" (ie middle class) protesters and homeless people. As if homeless people can't have politics.
They can have politics...but they don't seem to
It is obvious, just from walking by, that a considerable percentage of the occupiers are homeless or transient or substance abusers losing contol of their lives, or people otherwise indigent. While these folks are certainly entitled to any political opinion they care to hold, it looks to me (and others)like they are holding or expressing no such opinions, and are at the encampment basically for shelter of abandoned tents, food, the safety of numbers, or simply for lack of anyplace else to be, rather than to make any type of overt "statement" to the powers that be. You would think people in such a position in society would have a hell of a lot to protest, but it does not seem to be the case. They are simply "there". As they will be when the trust fund protesters and trendies out for an adventure have moved on.
the difference being?
There is a very large number of confused, idiotic, misinformed, immature, morons occupying boston. Some are lucky enough to have real mental/ drug issues, which can explain the nonsensical things that they can be heard saying. The rest..... expecting a magic hand-out?! Take to the streets with a shovel, find someone who needs a hole dug, dig it, get payed. an action is needed in order to be compensated. its called work
How's
Mom's basement anon. Instead of throwing out GOP fed talking points bullshit, you could be civil; go down there and actually talk to them.
I think you'd find you characterization off base and probably only representative of a small percentage of the OWS crowd.
Hit a nerve?