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Die-Hard Occupiers Stay for the Meetings

I had made plans to go to New York to see the "Occupy" encampment at Zuccotti Park before the NYPD broke it up on November 15th. This didn't stop me from stopping by on Saturday November 19th; I was curious to see how the movement would adapt to not being allowed to have tents in the park. The …

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Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Monday November 21, 2011

Sanitation Returns to Zuccotti

Anarchy is not good for anyone. One of the joys of the “Occupy Wherever” movement is the swift return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings to wreak divine wrath on its most clueless transgressors. The wrath includes the return of tuberculosis-the scourge of the 19th century; scrofula from the …

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Written by John Vecchione on Tuesday November 15, 2011