Updated: Occupy Gainesville protesting banks

[struggle4progress]

October 12th, 2011 08:17am
Updated: Occupy Gainesville protesting banks
by Chad Smith

11:36 a.m. | The roughly 60 protesters have marched to the Bank of America on University Avenuecircling and are again chanting, “They got bailed out, we got sold out,” as well as “Tell me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like.”

11:08 a.m. | Protesters are circling Wells Fargo on Main Street, chanting, “They got bailed out, we got sold out.”

9:47 a.m. | After one protester suggested the group not smoke or use drugs on the plaza, another, Debbie Martinez, suggested there be no more “four-letter words.”

That didn’t sit well with some. It was then suggested that the issue of language be brought up at tonight’s general assembly meeting ...

http://citylimits.blogs.gainesville.com/15773/occupy-gainesville-begins-with-a-small-crowd-for-now/?tc=ar