I had seen the articles about occupying Wall Street, but hadn't read any of them because I thought, "Well, what can I do? Wall Street is in New York and I'm clear on the other side of the country in California." Then yesterday I read MinistryofTruth's "Michael Moore TORCHES "Class War" meme at #OccupyWallStreet, Day 12 photo blog". I especially liked the clip from Lawrence O'Donnell introducing Michael Moore and discussing what was going on. I loved what O'Donnell said. It is one of the best things I've heard recently. It got me interested.
So, I went to the Occupy Wall Street website and learned that there were demonstrations going on all over the country, even Arcadia! So I checked what was happening in the San Francisco Bay Area. (I live in the South Bay, Campbell/San Jose.) As it turned out, yesterday, September 29, was the day protest was scheduled for San Francisco. I learned this about 10:00 a.m. It was scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. And so, I decided to go.
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