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'Occupy the Tundra': One woman's lonely vigil in bush Alaska(???)
LAT ^ | 10/15/11

Posted on 10/16/2011 9:21:55 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

'Occupy the Tundra': One woman's lonely vigil in bush Alaska

October 15, 2011 | 7:15 am

She is standing alone with her dogs with an early frost on the grass, staking her claim as part of the 99%. "Occupy the Tundra," says the sign she holds, hand-lettered on an old piece of cardboard.

Thousands of Americans are occupying Wall Street and various plazas, parks and squares across America. Diane McEachern has made sure that Bethel, Alaska -- a town of 6,400 way out in western Alaska -- is among them.

The picture she posted on the Occupy Wall Street Facebook page of herself in a musk-ox neck warmer, standing in the grass with her dogs in silent protest of corporate greed, has become the rural equivalent of a million-man march. The photo has been shared by thousands of people around the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: occupythetundra; occupythewallst; occupywallstreet
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1 posted on 10/16/2011 9:22:01 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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2 posted on 10/16/2011 9:22:35 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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LOL such stupidity .

Anything for attention


3 posted on 10/16/2011 9:23:40 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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Her dogs does not appear to be happy to have their picture taken.


4 posted on 10/16/2011 9:27:44 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Another bearded, female Palin hater. Beware of Alaskan women with beards.


5 posted on 10/16/2011 9:30:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Greed" is wanting everything and demanding that somebody else pay for it.)
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How much did they pay her to do it?


6 posted on 10/16/2011 9:32:16 PM PDT by Trillian
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Idiot.


7 posted on 10/16/2011 9:35:58 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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Nothing says “low class” like the free mixture of upper and lower case letters.


8 posted on 10/16/2011 9:39:13 PM PDT by matt1234 (Bring back the HUAC.)
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Occupy England!!!

9 posted on 10/16/2011 9:41:44 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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The young black dog would be the first you’d have to shoot- you can see in it’s eyes. The others would run away squalling, although the blond shepherd mix might show some loyalty.


10 posted on 10/16/2011 9:42:58 PM PDT by One Name
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I can’t do it.

The jokes almost write themselves. Too easy.


11 posted on 10/16/2011 9:43:08 PM PDT by barstoolblues (Neither teabagger nor tyrant)
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I can’t do it.

The jokes almost write themselves. Too easy.


12 posted on 10/16/2011 9:43:25 PM PDT by barstoolblues (Neither teabagger nor tyrant)
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"...She is standing alone..."

Who took the photograph?
13 posted on 10/16/2011 9:43:39 PM PDT by frankenMonkey (By God, we will not squander what has been given us!)
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Reminds me of Jon Krakauer's book "Into the Wild"
After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature.
(From Publishers Weekly)
Another rebel without a clue.
14 posted on 10/16/2011 9:44:07 PM PDT by TChad
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15 posted on 10/16/2011 9:47:26 PM PDT by TChad
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Occupy the tundra..... Feed the bears


16 posted on 10/16/2011 9:49:21 PM PDT by wyokostur
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My grandad lived in Annandale- I had friends that went there- remember the Steely Dan song “My Old School”? Hung out there many a weekend.

I went to Fort Hunt down in Alexandria.


17 posted on 10/16/2011 9:54:58 PM PDT by One Name
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Is this that ugly diva from Mudflats?


18 posted on 10/16/2011 9:55:01 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
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Who took the photograph?

The bear.

19 posted on 10/16/2011 9:57:20 PM PDT by TChad
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I can’t believe she wasted six months worth of toilet paper to make a sign.


20 posted on 10/16/2011 10:00:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Greed" is wanting everything and demanding that somebody else pay for it.)
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