What democracy looks like...here

[kentuck]

http://www.csindy.com/colorado/what-democracy-looks-like-here/Content?oid=2393198

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"To allow a permit to limit what we are doing — we're not really a part of the real movement, any of us," says one woman, "because we have negotiated our constitutional rights with the city by taking their permit and saying, 'Yes, sir, no, sir, we will do as you please, sir.' I have a constitutional right to be here and assemble."

Frustrated, this woman leaves the circle.

An hour after it began, the assembly ends at an impasse while discussing the rule, "Occupy Colorado Springs has zero tolerance for abuse of personal or public property"; the debate over what "abuse" means proves too tedious. A dozen protesters leave the circle, frustrated, and form their own circle a hundred yards away.

Watching all this, Florea says he isn't dismayed. There are numerous points in Occupy Wall Street's declaration on which the union agrees, such as concerns about outsourcing labor and the effects it has on workers' wages and benefits; the bailouts and executive bonuses; corporate money in politics; and the efforts to block generic medicines.

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