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A loosely affiliated group of 30 some people have been quietly meeting, more or less each week, in Jackson County on the heels of an Occupy Sylva event held last October.
This confederacy of the self-dubbed “99 percent” has morphed into Occupy Western North Carolina. While Asheville has its own Occupy group, OccupyWNC has become a catch-all for the counties west of Buncombe, bringing in residents from Waynesville, Franklin and farther west who expressed a desire to get involved following the Occupy Sylva rally.
“This is a much broader coalition than just Sylva,” member Allen Lomax, a Sylva resident and Waynesville-based real estate agent who also helps local, small investors connect with local, small businesses or entrepreneurs. “It has become much bigger than that.”Read the full article
A loosely affiliated group of 30 some people have been quietly meeting, more or less each week, in Jackson County on the heels of an Occupy Sylva event held last October.
This confederacy of the self-dubbed “99 percent” has morphed into Occupy Western North Carolina. While Asheville has its own Occupy group, OccupyWNC has become a catch-all for the counties west of Buncombe, bringing in residents from Waynesville, Franklin and farther west who expressed a desire to get involved following the Occupy Sylva rally.
“This is a much broader coalition than just Sylva,” member Allen Lomax, a Sylva resident and Waynesville-based real estate agent who also helps local, small investors connect with local, small businesses or entrepreneurs. “It has become much bigger than that.”Read the full article
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Are we really still talking about these purposeless losers?
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By timothypeck
01/08/2012
Purposeless losers? No, we aren't talking about the Disciples of Rand.
By mat catastrophe
01/08/2012
Thing is, they've tapped into the collective despair over our loss of freedoms and opportunities. The movement is not going away.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/oct/18/occupy-protests-map-world
By D. Dial
01/08/2012
Yes, mere occupancy is the strategy of the purposeless loser. The objectivist hero would dynamite Wall Street.
By sharpleycladd
01/08/2012