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Friday, 09 December 2011
Inadvertent irony from #Occupy Newark
Meet the new activists, same as the old activists:
When Occupy Newark came to town, they looked like kindred spirits to Newark's home-grown protesters.
Union leader Rahaman Muhammad brought the occupiers sandwiches. City Councilman Ras Baraka pitched a tent in Military Park. Donna Jackson, a vocal member of the Newark Anti-Violence Coalition, stood vigil.
But soon the old guard saw the Real Faces of #Occupy Newark, and they didn't like it. Not one bit.
But six weeks later, tensions between Newark's native activists and the occupation have devolved into accusations, shouting matches and threats of eviction.
"There's been drinking, drugging … They offered my son some marijuana," said Rahaman Muhammad, president of the SEIU Local 617. "There's really no code of conduct down there."
And this is a surprise?
The Occupods are defiant. They invaded a City Council meeting.
Occupy members have declined to provide their full names, but one woman, Angela X, spoke on behalf of the group at yesterday's city council meeting, despite Jackson and others trying to shout her down.
Wait for it, it's gonna be good!
"You've been protesting in Newark for 30 years," she said. "We're still starving."
Thirty years of ineffective protests … and the solution is?
More protests!
Oh, but the Occupods are different. They have drum circles.
UPDATE 10 Dec 2011 11:14:
Linked by Theo Spark and Doug Ross. Thanks!
Posted at 16:47 by Chris Wysocki
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