December 5, 2011
t marches through the popular Church Street section of downtown are proof positive that there is life for the Occupy movement after the camping is done.
I visited their weekly Really, Really Free Market and asked a few people my question: “Why Occupy?” Here’s what they told me:
December 4, 2011
Donald Stetson stands near a memorial in City Hall Park for Josh Pfenning, an Occupy Burlington protester who shot himself November 10.
City Hall Park looked like a yard sale today, with second-hand clothes, used books and other random items that anyone may have lying around in the basement or attic strewn around the statue in the center of the downtown square. The only difference is everything was free for the taking.
It was Occupy Burlington’s second such direct action that they call the Really, Really Free Market.
“We were talking around Black Friday about trying to do something different for Black Friday and this is what we came up with,” said Matt Cropp, an Occupy Burlington activist. “We thought, why not…
December 3, 2011
Mass transit is never perfect, but here in the Green Mountain State you never know what is going to slow down the train. Tonight it was not the elements or the weather, nor was it wildlife or felled timber. Evidently, there was a beer keg on the tracks that needed to be removed.
No word on whether or not it was full, but if I know Vermonters – and I should, having done two journalism tours of duty here with newspapers in Brattleboro and Hardwick – the beer was likely consumed before the keg was abandoned.
After three cold nights…