Posted on 04/10/2012 7:44:54 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The Occupy movement vowed for a renewal in the spring. Under the Occupy 2012 banner of the “American Spring,” the movement spearheaded the largest protest ever against the Environmental Protection Agency/EPA last Friday in Washington D.C.
Hundreds of demonstrators and two alpacas marched to the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters on Friday, the first day of a planned month long National Occupation of D.C. movement (dubbed NOWDC).
A multitude of speakers outside the EPA spoke for an hour on social causes ranging from District of Columbia statehood to justice for Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teenager shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer on Feb. 26.
A consistent thread throughout the assembly was the demand for EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to resign- The rally call was supported by charges that her agency did not treat employees properly or adequately protect the environment.
The OccupyEPA speakers and protestors also called for increased nuclear regulation; an end to the practices of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and gas and manufacturing genetically modified organisms; and an end to housing regulations.
Scholar and Activist Noam Chomsky gives Occupy and OccupyEPA a vote of confidence- Calls the Occupy movement “Genuine”
Distinguished linguist, scholar, and activist Noam Chomsky, who has been in strong support of the Occupy movement, had this to say about OccupyEPA in a recorded video:
"It is a privilege to be able to endorse the launching of the 2012 U.S. occupation movement called the American Spring. As with the civil rights struggle, and other genuine popular movements, the American Spring provides all of us with an opportunity to become involved at the grassroots level and to challenge the right of the 1% to destroy the earth, foreclose on our homes, and undermine the well-being of the poor and oppressed today and future generations....
(Excerpt) Read more at communities.washingtontimes.com ...
EPA Ping.
Oh, I can tell it’s going to be an interesting
summer. Can’t wait till August and the rioting.
Alpacas always lend credibility to a meeting.
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