Occupy someplace else

By Michael Fitzgerald | Published: September 24, 2012 | 1 Comment

The Occupy camp in San Francisco has degenerated into a homeless encampment. Sound familiar? 

“You’ve got your activists, and you’ve got your slack-tivists,” an Occupy protester told the Chronicle.

SF’s Occupy is moving, to ditch the homeless. Here, in Stockton, Occpy rationalized the homeless takeover as”building community.”

 

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