If you've been consuming any of the consternation Occupy Wall Street is kicking up from the right to on-high, you might have heard that the action is mostly comprised of hippie youth. Of course, "Occupy demographics" is tricky territory when it comes to visual media with too much opportunity to skew or reinforce misleading impressions.
With this in mind, I was interested in these AP photos bouncing around today. Of course, it would be one thing to draw assumptions from a random couple of crowd shots from OccupyDC. But that's not what we're looking at. Instead, these are photos of organizers holding a General Assembly meeting in Freedom Plaza to consider an offer by the Parks Service to extend their protest permit.
Interested in your read.
(photo: Cliff Owen / AP caption: Demonstrators in Freedom Plaza hold a general assembly meeting to decide if they want to accept a U.S. Park Service Police offer to extend their permit to occupy the park for another four months in Washington, Monday, Oct. 10, 2011.)
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No "Thanks MSNBC for keeping us infromed" signs.
No "We came unarmed...THIS time" signs.
Intelligent and peaceful. How un-Tea Party. No wonder the public approves of OWS and disapproves of the TP.
Media needs to label because they can't fathom not labeling things.
Looks like a bunch of real Americans to me though.
The GOP labels us so they can divide us. They are as UN-American as Borscht.
was a time more than a person, it was a way of life
we owe them a lot.
Purely by chance, since it wasn't part of their way of life,
thet taught us to think for ourselves. Some of them were too
stoned to think, some of them didn't bathe but some were
payiny attention to what our government was doing in our name;
it was murdering our children.
Turn forward to today, the hippies are gone, the times have changed
and the cause is different; the bad actors are older and slicker today.
Today there are highly educated people in the street, and all they want
is a job, a smaller student loan and a decent job. But the slicksters of
Wall Street are too busy hording their money to even see our country
sliding out of first place.
But they still think, the hippies of the 60s may have been the first,
but they are not the last.
PEACE BRO.
The hippies were right all along.