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Faces of Occupy Santa Cruz

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• November 8, 2011
Julian Lemert

Julian Lemert

When I originally came down to Santa Cruz, about three weeks ago, I was sleeping in my car because my friends and I didn’t really have very much money and there was nowhere to camp. It’s pretty much illegal to sleep anywhere here—you get arrested or ticketed and things like that. And parking’s ridiculous, too—you’ve got to get up every couple of hours just to feed the meter so you don’t get ticketed for that, too. Anyway, I met a guy named Dreamcatcher—we were talking about camping and he said there was a protest going on over here. I wanted to come see what it was about because I kind of enjoy protesting things—as long as it’s something worth protesting. So I came down here, found out what it’s about, and I’ve been here ever since, 24/7. We’ve got a really nice system going on here.

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    According to SantaCruz.com “the faces of Occupy Santa Cruz” = homeless single men.  Pretty shallow.  Anyone who spent any time at the Occupy GA’s and events this fall knows that though the homeless moved in to the encampment, the Occupy movement was & is a different network of folks: working people, mostly housed, many women, etc. And anyone looking a little deeper would know that the main strategy used by local police & other anti-Occupy forces to undermine community support for the Occupy movement nation-wide has been identifying Occupy with the homeless.  I’d like to think that SantaCruz.com is naively falling for this rather than deliberately doing it.

    Suggestion: instead of using interviews from the homeless encampment that surrounded the Occupy encampment, come on down to the General Assemblies that happen every night and interview the real faces of Occupy.

  • https://www.santacruz.com/news/faces_of_occupy_santa_cruz_erin_gaede3.html Paul Johnston

    According to SantaCruz.com “the faces of Occupy Santa Cruz” = homeless single men.  Pretty shallow.  Anyone who spent any time at the Occupy GA’s and events this fall knows that though the homeless moved in to the encampment, the Occupy movement was & is a different network of folks: working people, mostly housed, many women, etc. And anyone looking a little deeper would know that the main strategy used by local police & other anti-Occupy forces to undermine community support for the Occupy movement nation-wide has been identifying Occupy with the homeless.  I’d like to think that SantaCruz.com is naively falling for this rather than deliberately doing it.

    Suggestion: instead of using interviews from the homeless encampment that surrounded the Occupy encampment, come on down to the General Assemblies that happen every night and interview the real faces of Occupy.