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Occupy Boston Defines Irony, Causes Cancellation Of Food Drive And Small Business-Heavy Festival

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Thanks to Occupy Boston’s takeover of Dewey Square, the “Greenway Mobile Food Fest,” scheduled to take place this weekend, has been canceled. Organizers hope to reschedule the event for next spring. According to a statement posted on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway site:

“The decision is based on the fact the attendees we’re anticipating for the Greenway Mobile Food Fest, when combined with the Occupy Boston encampment on Dewey Square, would simply be too crowded to be considered safe for the public. [On Tuesday], activists complied with the smooth load-in and load-out of the Boston Public Market, a successful farmer’s market on Dewey Square, but the scale of Saturday’s event is much, much bigger.”

This cancellation takes away plenty of profit from the dozen food trucks and vendors expected, which is essentially the antithesis (or at least close to the antithesis) of the Occupy movement — small business owners are now losing money. And where will that money go? Probably to more corporations. Who knows how many people who would have otherwise gone to the Food Fest for the grilled cheese stands, bocce, free music, and crafts, will now just go to McDonald’s, or order from Domino’s. Maybe parents will take their children to the mall. Perhaps, since the free food festival no longer exists, would-be event-goers will all be forced to take money they otherwise wouldn’t have spent out from a Chase bank — even though they’re Bank of America customers! — and incur ATM fees from both banks, giving Wall Streeters that much more power and money.

The cancellation also raises a particularly fun, possibly bittersweet scenario for Ben & Jerry’s. The company was planning on participating in the event before the cancellation, so they should probably be angry at the Occupy protesters for lost revenue and exposure. But, as luck would have it, the company came out in support of the Occupy movements earlier this week. So which side do they choose?

On top of it all, and on a serious note, the Food Fest was going to be a collection point for a Greater Boston Food Bank canned food drive. It might have been a nice opportunity for the Occupy people to curry some favor with the general public: show up in large numbers and flood the donation barrels with cans of food. Instead, the food bank is left without a high-traffic event to gather much-needed goods.

It’s probably a product of the largely-leaderless Occupy movement that nobody stood up and suggested that 50% of them leave the park so there wouldn’t be a crunch for the Food Fest. It would have been a PR coup on their end to step aside, let the small businesses make some money, help the food bank, and then return to the lawn late Saturday night, or even Sunday morning. The cops seem to be fine with letting the group stay in Dewey Square indefinitely, so — outside of some creative tactics — they’d probably be able to show up again after the festival and just lay their gear back down. As a bonus? A night sleeping in a bed.

But, for now, the city has Occupy Boston to thank for a canceled festival. Things are getting a little testy in the comments on the Fest’s Facebook page, Coyote Kolb will have to find another place to play on Saturday, and the Greater Boston Food Bank is left scrambling to make up for donations. Is it Occupy Boston being selfish? No. But they are being somewhat myopic. And in squandering a golden opportunity, they may have hurt the people they’re trying hardest to represent.

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  • Michelle

    Well that’s one way to get supporters for your cause!!

  • Anonymous

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

    *deep breath*

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

    oh the irony…

  • Anonymous

    Clearly, the Occupy Boston people don’t care about poor people that don’t eat.

    And they took away an upcoming PumpkinFest so they hate children too.

  • Anonymous

    I believe there was a food festival in D.C. last weekend that was also impacted by the “Occupy” crowd. 

    “Sometimes we judge ourselves by our good intentions, but the world judges us by our last worst act.”

  • Anonymous

    I support Occupy Wall Street!!

  • Anonymous

    What does, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs” mean?

    It means it is difficult to achieve
    something important without causing any unpleasant effects

  • Anonymous

    Shouldn’t you be scouring these boards for grammatical errors?

  • Anonymous

    I’m just glad Mediaite isn’t pretending to be a neutral source of information anymore. Fox lite.

  • Anonymous

    The threads are boring and I’ve been busy.

    So no.

  • Anonymous

    They ruined an event for kids and for poor folks and middle Americans.

    Gotta love the hypocrisy.

  • Anonymous

    Well, I guess it’s better to do it out of irony, than actually have it as part of your agenda.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    The Occupy bums should each bring 4 cans of food tomorrow down to the park .

    And then have a canned food fight .  No helmets allowed .

    Or, if they’re not going home , go shoplift a bunch of canned food and bring it in .

  • Anonymous

    The article makes some very good points.  Unfortunately since these groups are not well organized there is not anyone who could take charge of arranging all this. 

  • Anonymous

    You and Michelle-In-Utah would make great BFF’s. 

  • Anonymous

    I support Occupy Boston…let the poor eat cake.

  • Anonymous

    Mrs. Obama, is that you??? Paula Deen’s carrot cake for everyone!

  • Anonymous

    This is a must see of who the Protesters are that the news wont show. These are the people that the democrats are standing behind …LMAO

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=539_1318434275

  • Anonymous

    is this you on this video telling everyone its your country and the rich need to get out!
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=539_1318434275

  • Anonymous

    ironically, the protesters are being supplied food, right?   

  • Texan

    seiu isn’t known for it’s organizational skills they are known for it thuggery

  • Anonymous

    And you and BFD and Snowspot would make a great gangb*ng. Now go sit in the corner till you can play nice with the rest of the group.

  • Texan

    apparently you missed the thousands of posts defending obama and the progressive agenda…cry me a freakin river

  • Texan

    no, that’s the phony kings gig

  • Anonymous

    The funny thing is that what you suggested, bringing cans of food, would actually show some sign of caring about people.  Which is why it won’t be done.

    These self involved faux revolutionaries would never take it upon themselves to do something that might improve or help someone else, they’ll just demand that others do it.

    People Power!

  • Anonymous

    I’ll bet everything is boring without Sarah Palin around.

    Is she still overseas running for president of South Korea?

  • Anonymous

    And juxtaposed to this, I’ve been to more than one local tea party where we also included a local food drive.  Come to the protest, bring canned goods.

    Ironic.

  • Mencius

    Shouldn’t you be fondling a Sarah Palin doll right now? 

  • Anonymous

    After watching that video I am so inspired that I’m going to go out and ruin the first food drive I come across!

  • Anonymous

    New Ben & Jerry’s flavor coming out called “OWS Human Microphone”.
    Rich patchouli nugat ice cream with chunks of cop car turds, topped off with a body odor/spittle swirl.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose the protestors will view the cancellation of a Food Fest as the cost of their ‘revolution’. A means to and end, unfortunate casualties and all that…I hope when Thanksgiving and winter sets in they will be the first in line to stock the depleted shelves with a donation. 

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  • Anonymous

    You’re wrong people are actually bringing food to occupy Boston and they’re donating food.  They actually care, something you need to tell your corporate buddies.  I will be helping out too.   

  • Anonymous

    Why do the Occupiers hate hungry children ??

  • Anonymous

    I am not sure these two can even tie their own shoes. Mommy must buy them slip ons. She forgot to make sure they got their nap as well. Why didn’t she send them to school. Elementary is free you know as well as Jr. High and High school. But seriously tell me this is not the product of our schools.

  • Anonymous

    Hopefully the protesters will realize the damage here and make it right. Put out the word for the donations to these food banks. But what will they do about the kids event. That was pretty rotten too. What is it about these protesters and respect of others. The parks are for all the people and other events were planned. Pretty selfish if you ask me. Remember how that woman told Obama she was being evicted or something and he promised he would take care of her. Later we found out a republican representative took care of it. Obama promptly forgot about her. So Yoda I’ll be waiting to see how the protesters make this one right. Or will a conservative group step up and do it again? This will be interesting!

  • Anonymous

    They’re bringing food for the Packaged Rebellion Fest 2011, not for the needy.

    I’m not going to help because I’m too busy doing the Devils work by promoting Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Anti Labor and Anti Environmentalist causes.  I work for the 1% and we will crush your pampered hippie fest!

    !socialismo para la gente blanca aburrida!

  • Anonymous

    Love it how you talk about Sarah Palin instead of the Occupy Wall Streeters who are protesting for assistance since they are jobless and need help paying the bills, yet their demonstration cancelled an event that would provide food to those who are jobless and can’t afford it. Soooo hypocritical 

  • Anonymous

    Cool story bro

  • Anonymous

    So basically you are saying that you don’t want negative information about OWS to be reported? Sounds like most liberals who want to shun opposing viewpoints. 

  • Anonymous

    Many OWS protesters in New York City were setting up food tents to give away free food to hungry protesters. However, this stopped after a few days because they ran out of money to buy food and no one wanted to pitch in to help cover the cost of buying more.

    These protesters that support socialism don’t even want to partake in socialistic practices. Ha. 

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  • Pablo

    Shouldn’t you be fondling yourself? Oh, you are. Nevermind.

  • Anonymous

    lol negative is the ONLY thing mediaite is reporting on the OWS issue.

  • Pablo

    Neutral sources of information kiss lunatic progressive ass 24/7, amirite?

  • Pablo

    Could it have worked out any other way? I think not.

  • Pablo

    Dude! I like gave this other dude a few hits off my bong, dude! For like free! I’m totally about the sharing! That asshole wouldn’t share his girlfriend, though. Stupid capitalist. 

  • Pablo

    Obama’s brother still lives in a hut, right?

  • Pablo

    They couldn’t arrange a clusterfuck.

  • Anonymous

    Oh you must be the Bagger shill Abrams hired to make the comment loons happy.

    If the OWS people are such an issue then why was a marathon run without a single hitch in Portland on Sunday in the midst of 10,000 protesters?

  • Pablo

    Poor people are such a pain in the ass. If they’d just starve to death, we wouldn’t have to worry about them at all.

    Stalin would be proud.

  • Anonymous

    I know this story doesn’t agree with your ideology and worldview, but don’t you think it’s important? Do you not think it should have been reported … I mean it is pretty noteworthy. 

  • Anonymous

    These corporation CEOs that laid off millions of people affected hundred of thousands of kids while giving themselves huge pay raises, stock options and bonuses are extremely selfish if you ask me.  I’m not seeing much of a sacrifice there. Not very patriotic either. 

    The Republican was her representative in her district.  I know your righties don’t like the facts to get in your way.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t surprise me.  

  • Somepithysaying

    Occupy Boston representation had made it clear they were welcoming the food truck festival and had even instructed occupiers to clear the necessary space for the expected trucks. Occupy Boston had nothing to do with this decision, so this article doesnt make much sense at all… In fact today there was extensive discussion about how it would be possible to invite the festival and to continue the community festivals on the greenway as scheduled. Nearly every person on these comments has their facts wrong, you should come down to dewey sq and have a real conversation with real people, it’ll be a really different experience than the rest of our luke warm lives.

  • Anonymous

    I am sorry if you can’t see that leaders of the GOP and DNC are ruining America. Not my prob. :)

  • Anonymous

    I’ve heard of this before. They had one here in Pheonix and you were supposed to bring a canned good.

  • Anonymous

    Levi belongs at the OWS rallies.

    He’s just…..beyond.

  • Anonymous

    The fact that you guys are pretending to care about this story for ANY other reason aside from it making OWS look bad is ridiculous. Suddenly the right is the humanitarian crowd. You guys don’t have a genuine bone in your collective bodies.

  • Anonymous

    Beyond awesome.

  • Anonymous

    Is that what I meant? Or are you projecting?

  • Anonymous

    Why should that fact get in the way? She took care of it didn’t she? And Obama who said he would never did. And instead of taking responsibility for the protesters causing the food drive to be cancelled you want to tell me it’s the corporations fault and they aren’t patriotic. Do all liberals defect their wrong doings? I don’t disagree the corporations laid off people and we are all suffering for it but the protesters caused this food drive to be cancelled. I’m still waiting to see if you do anything about it or if some conservative group will beat you to it. My money is on a conservative group but I could be wrong. I can’t wait to find out.   

  • Crispymoore

    Right, the Occupy Boston protest should clearly have had the foresight to hold off a day or two so that the mobile food festival could happen, and maybe wait an extra day or two because little Timmy’s birthday was happening. This might be the single dumbest reason to get angry at a protest. How far up your ass does your head fit?

  • Anonymous

    Corporations did a lot more damage to a lot more families than this food drive. Basically causing so much needy in this country.  The food drive is being taken care of.  Obama had his people set her up with her representative, so basically he took care of it. I know that might seem to complicated for you, but he handled it.

  • Anonymous

    Its being taken care of? Well I am waiting you were suppose to tell me how, you know I am interested but I think you are making it up.

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Yuck!… Occupy Wall Street Zombies Lastest Chant: “You Can Have Sex With Animals”http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/yuck-occupy-wall-street-zombies-lastest-chant-you-can-have-sex-with-animals-video/

  • Anonymous

    You ruin people’s lives all the time with the way you vote, you don’t care about the poor, never have, you don’t even care the food drive is ruined. A smart PR move would have been to have a conservative organize a food drive to replace what happened.. but you aren’t smart, or resourceful and people like you feel happy enough sitting and slinging nonsensical bullshit at people.

    Good luck with that!

  • Anonymous

    Well I disagree with that premise. The only reason you DONT care about the story is because it makes OWS look bad. So it would seem to me that you’re not giving a dam about the hungry people who will lose out on the free food. And neither are the protesters. And you say YOUR side are the humanitarians?

  • Anonymous

    And actually, conservatives donate more to charity than liberals. Christians, on average per person, donate more than Atheists. Read it and weep. 

  • Anonymous

    Who says they’re protesting for assistance?

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  • Anonymous

    Fact: That was 10,000 runners and less than 100 OWS idiots!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: They should herd these losers over to a bridge somewhere while they feed the homeless the way NY police did the idiots in NY before arresting a bunch of them! Rolling , rolling, rolling  get those doggies rolling raw hide!!!

  • Anonymous

    I have a couple of questions about the article and the two events. Did anyone from Greenway make the effort to  go to the group and try to work out some compromise such as one suggested by the author? Were they even aware that the Greenway folks were considering postponing the event? BTW: the event was postponed and not cancelled.
    This is being presented as if they made a conscious choice to stay and not cooperate with the scheduled event, and as a result the event was postponed and oh, the suffering it will cause. I don’t see any evidence they knew their presence was an influence on considering a postponing the event. In fact it says they did cooperate with the farmers market. Maybe they would have gladly cooperated with this event had there been some effort.  Did the Greenway folks make an effort to go there and discuss their concerns with the occupiers and work something out?
    Let’s note that the cite that announces the event has been postponed mentions that Dewey Square is a half acre while there are 15 more aces available. Maybe the protestors could have just moved out of the way for the weekend, had somebody just communicated with them and suggested it.

    Hey Nando! Any insight as to the level of communication between Greenway and the protestors on this? If there wasn’t any your article seems a little contrived as it places the onus almost entirely on the protestors rather than on Greenway to make more of an effort to work things out.

    And Hooray for Ben and Jerry’s. They have been a stellar example of how a large company can be run with a social conscience. They even have a book about about it which is worth reading. 

  • Farnsworth

    I hate to keep doing this to you but that’s an opinion and not a fact. You should probably consider changing your name just so you don’t keep looking like the village idiot every time you post.

  • Josh-Gladstone

    Ben & Jerry’s?  They support these mobs and what they do. Go to TheMorningSpew dot com and enter the OWS flavor contest.
    But, why should this story surprise anyone?  These people are morons. They silenced Congressman John Lewis!  They would not let him speak at a protest supposedly created to give people a voice?  Huh?  And this is how a supporter defends it.

    http://themorningspew.com/2011/10/13/huffpo-super-user-defends-the-silencing-of-congressman-john-lewis-and-his-kind/

  • Farnsworth

    So what?

  • Farnsworth

    Yeah but if Medaite did some research then they wouldn’t be able to pitch the awesome fiscal conservatives against the amazing wuvverly liberals in a fight that will only end when everyone is truly bored and moves on to repeat the same basic nonsense in another thread.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KRHUTP5TRPT3KNJ4ZKA7CULEZU kenny jervis

    You will see that there wasnt a lot of Interest Events scheduled on the Greenway have been disasters ask the Unity Fest Or the Old Navy Fitness challenge.Or Even the weekly artisan sales. The Greenway has not been a viable economic climate for any event held on the Weekend.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DGSJVA2O2YE4FH3O2E2BAMYEXQ Kevin

    The occupy wall street people are clueless they know nothing about the stock market or the world around them. They basse everything on emotion and refuse to look at facts or logic, kind of like Letterman. I’m actually shocked his show is still on I can’t remember the last time I watched it.

  • TruDat

    It’s not defying irony.

    It’s Liberal Logic, and you have to be brain dead to understand it.

  • Farnsworth

    It’s quite amazing that you know so much about every single OWS protester. Did you enjoy the time you spent down there? How many people did you talk to?

  • Anonymous

    Garsh, that sure sounds like the ‘occupiers’ are the ones that think that they’re running things in the community?  WE said that it’s OKAY that you carry on and we’ll let you do it.

    Newsflash, those decisions are made by elected officials, not by a bunch of random people in the park.  They have to be concerned with physical access, parking, people flow, security, blahblahblah.   It’s obvious why they cancelled the event.

    I wouldn’t bother going even if they held the thing.  Running an obstacle course of people isn’t ‘fun’.  Attendees get to have their own opinion on such a subject themselves, too.

  • Anonymous

    One doesn’t have to be there and speak to these people to know what they want. They want the government nanny state to help them so they don’t have to work too hard.

    Many of them have already stated that they would not take any low paying job. In one interview, a girl was asked if someone offered her a high paying job right now, would she take it. She said no. That says a lot about some of these people.

  • Anonymous

    Ben and Jerry’s is owned by a large evil corporation. Unilever.  HA HA HA HA!!!!

  • Farnsworth

    “One doesn’t have to be there and speak to these people to know what they
    want. They want the government nanny state to help them so they don’t
    have to work too hard.” – so you don’t need to be there in order to parrot the same tired old stereotypes that suit your vapid agenda. You’re actually right this time my simple little friend. Have a sweetie.

  • Anonymous

    Wow!! and again Wow! You have no reading comprehension at all do you?

  • Anonymous

    Wow!! and again Wow! You have no reading comprehension at all do you?

  • Anonymous

    Action is louder then words! and what I see I beleive!

    I know liberals and I know tea party activist and some of the people that attend the tea party events also volunteer their time at the food bank and feeding the hungry…The liberals I know do nothing other then complain about the tea party and blame everyone else …none of them help anyone other then send emails and facebook comments on how racist the tea party is!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It’s obvious that the person making the decision to cancel the events was a ignorant Republicon!!

  • Holistic

    Ah yes! When it comes to food drives and the small business person Dems are more for Occupy Boston. Screw the others. Lets tell Blubber Boy Ed that on MSNBC.

  • Frod

    You do realise that OWS publicly rejects party affiliation? No matter how much you wish this all slotted neatly into your cartoon world of good ol’ boys vs hippies it simply isn’t the case and continuing to insist otherwise just makes you look like a bit of a nutbag.

  • Frod

    Occupy Boston I mean. Sorry Boston. Soston.

  • Go Navy

    Pow, zoom, another strike, right in the kisser.  How do you lemmings do it?  LMAO!

  • CRC

    >>Is it Occupy Boston being selfish? No.

    Maybe not selfish…but narcissistic, hypocritical or clueless – those would all work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    So that’s where those whiny brats are hiding in Boston. The media kept telling me they’re all over the place here but I could never find those filthy drifters. Good, keep them in that little corner, their stench will be blown out to see more easily.

  • FedUpWithPolitics

    Occupy Boston stated during a conversation on boston.com today that, had they been given the chance to work with the food festival to find a way to co-exist, they would have. That chance was never given. They also have been working with the Farmer’s Market that uses Dewey Square, and have been able to co-exist with them quit well. 

    So perhaps all is not as black, white and ironic as it seems. Do some research.

  • FedUpWithPolitics

    Sorry, forgot the link to the chat transcript: http://www.boston.com/news/source/2011/10/chat_at_1130_am.html

    and that should have been “quite well”.

  • dblaess

    i see your picture and see you do not know how to print your name joe.  perhaps this is not joe, but george.  george is this you again?

  • Holistic

    If you believe what you just wrote, your living in a fantasy world.

  • Clkjester01

    So wait. Its okay to “break some eggs to protest” but its not okay to “break some eggs” to create jobs.
    Got it.
    So… children, the poor, the hungry are okay to screw with.

    Arrogant jobless twits who got degrees in things like “16th century economic lit” and other oh-so-useful degrees aren’t okay to be pushed aside by companies who want to employ people with real job skills.  Got it.

  • Frod

    Yeah I guess so. I can’t argue with that. It’s too perfect an argument.

  • Obeezy

    Wrong.. They marched with Public unions and Had democrats, ie.. Michale Moore, Sue Sarandon, Russel Simmons there donating… Also some are beinng paid by Democrat workers unions.. Just go to craiglist and se efor yourself.. Or try reading the NYDN.. a liberal newspaper… Now who looks like the nutbag 

  • Obeezy
  • Anonymous

    “Co-exist”, how? With a lunatic fringe group that would rather interfere with feeding the needy because their communist revolution is more inportant?

    You’re full of shit. 

  • Chris Kortual

    Conservatives ARE organizing a drive.  Ace of Spades, Instapundit, and RightSphere (three conservative bloggers) are setting up an online drive for monetary donations for the food bank.  That’s just three conservative social media hubs that I know of that are doing that.  I imagine more will follow.

  • Anonymous

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    he Wall Street Protestors are trying to tell you something
    very important, Profits from Wall Street have been very excessive, along with
    the theft graft and corruption have been excessive enough to break our economy.
    How is that? Why is it? You can understand wages are inflationary, gasoline is
    inflationary, increasing commodity prices in general are inflationary and counter-productive
    to growth and competition but you don’t seem to understand just how radically
    inflationary the Hedge Fund Managers along with their associate profiteers are.
    The manufactured manipulations which produce hype and phony faith in the
    market, causing the prices to raise and lower like a see-saw, while profits and
    losses get generated by the billions and are milked out of the hands of the
    high-risk investors, speculators, and so many of the funds we all depend on as
    our savings and pensions which these profiteers are playing with. I think the
    Wall Street Protestors want you to stop the rip-off taking place in the Casino
    Part of Wall Street. I’m referring to the useless, ruthless part of Wall Street
    which morphed into the “Greatest Miss-named Casino on the face of the
    earth”, where the Hedge Fund Managers,(the pit bosses and their associates
    who are robbing Wall Street Pension funds and millions of peoples savings for
    the future. The Casino part of Wall Street should be using  coins like used in Las Vegas instead of
    certificate pieces of paper describing the extremely inflated PROFITS the
    conjured up, it should be called Funny Money and anyone dumb enough to put
    their money there have only themselves to blame when they lose. Many
    intelligent, earnest people put their life savings there, believing it is safe.
    Wow! That is sad. Better yet. Separate the Wall Street Casino from the real
    part of Wall Street which invests in businesses which produce products, promote
    growth and stay healthy through thick and thin. I you take that Casino Money
    and put it into real Companies which produce products, you could manufacture
    things in America, sell them around the world dirt cheap and make more real money
    than the Wall Street Casino makes simply because Wall Street is and up and
    down, win and lose program just like Las Vegas. If you haven’t been to Las
    Vegas, go there and see what I mean. The Protestors are aware of this; they
    just don’t know how to fix it. Give them a hand Bloomberg. Everyone likes a
    Hero. Show them you can separate the real money from the funny money by separating
    Wall Street into two parts, the “Wall Street Casino” and, “Wall Street True
    Investments.”

    It will take a little work but it will pay-off big
    time, for your children and mine in years to come.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

    Considering the number of communist flags, calls for violent revolution, union money and signs, che shirts, and praise for Cuba…. They have made the “party affiliation” question quite clear.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

    Since you are OBVIOUSLY unaware that Ipads, iphones, digital cameras, video recorders, satalite television, the internet, youtube, facebook, and twitter exist…….

    I DONT NEED TO BE THERE…. to “suit YOUR vapid agenda”….. I can see and hear quite CLEARLY who, what, when, where, and why they are there and doing what they are you brain dead fool.

    YOU lying about it, claiming it’s something else, pretending nobody knows, and praying nobody can see or hear these wretched little communist idiots chant to Stalin wont change the REALITY that your delusion prevents you from grasping.

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  • william scalia

    It would seem to me that the malaise that OWS is standing up in protest against is a more important national and international issue than a local food bank issue, which I sure can be resolved by some other method. All of this arguing and fingerpointing at the movement is intellectually disingenuous in the face of the longterm ramifications of the continuation of this systemic crisis that the working class is facing.

  • awing

    That drive is spreading too, I’ve seen it on the Legalinsurrection blog as well.

  • Anonymous

    SCREW the poor people; we’ve got to have our protests attacking the rich.

    Wait, what?

  • Anonymous

    Who cares about the poor and hungry who would have had more food; you’ve got to wave sign and attack rich people; while sitting in circles chanting.

    Clearly a lot of chanting and signs are more useful than food for poor people…  priorities and stuff.  Food isn’t high up there n necessities, right?

    And I’ve never tried putting my head up my ass; maybe you could pull yours out so you can breathe once in a while.  Or at least get a view of the real world instead of your self-absorbed narcissistic whine-fest.

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    http://mobile.boston.com/yourtown/boston/northend/articles/2011/10/11/boston_police_arrest_50_from_occupy_boston/?camp=obinsite when protesters tried to relocate they were told by police to go back to dewey park, and some were arrested. Perhaps had they been allowed to move to the greenway the festival could have taken place.

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