Posted on 10/11/2011 3:16:09 PM PDT by reaganaut1
AFTER nearly two weeks of living among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in downtown Manhattan, Ellis Roberts, 25, a Pennsylvania garbage collector laid off last year, looked scruffy and dazed.
He was not, however, hungry.
“I’ve been here for 12 days, and I’ve put on 5 pounds,” he said, sitting on the ground in front of a handmade sign that said “Class War Ahead.” “I’m eating better than I do at home.”
Like the rest of his anti-corporate comrades, Mr. Roberts learned soon after arriving in Zuccotti Park that his meals would be taken care of. All he had to do was amble toward a ramshackle cluster of tables and boxes in the middle of the park and, without paying a cent, grab a slice of pizza or a warm slab of homemade vegan casserole. Last Thursday he had encountered “a bunch of Katz’s Deli sandwiches,” he said. “That was good.”
The makeshift kitchen has fed thousands of protesters each day. Along the way, it has developed a cuisine not unlike the Occupy Wall Street movement itself: free-form, eclectic, improvisatory and contradictory.
Requests for food go out on Twitter and various Web sites sympathetic to the protesters. And somehow, in spontaneous waves, day after day, the food pours in. The donations are received with enthusiasm, even when they are not precisely what the troops might have desired.
Robert Strype, 29, a protester from the Poughkeepsie, N.Y., area who was wearing a T-shirt that expressed his displeasure with Monsanto, said that anger about practices like factory farming and the genetic modification of vegetables was one of the factors that had roused him and some of his fellow occupiers. “Food plays a huge part in this movement,” he said. “Because people are tired of being fed poison.”
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Aaah,most of them will be gone soon-—the novelty will wear off.
Let them have their “sixties” fun for a while.
I wonder when the cholera outbreak starts.
Kinda the same places Obama got all those little unidentified campaign contributions from, huh?
“We don’t know where it comes from. It just appears, and we eat it.”
Hey look - it’s the same as their economic philosophy!
They can feed these freaks, but they cannot feed the homeless ?
If we don’t stop this madness our country will be inherited by people willing to trade their freedom for a flat screen tv and a sandwich.
Shut off their cell phones and laptops and watch the real revolution begin.
What goes in must go out and I'm sure the area store owners are delighted at the way some of the hippies help themselves to their restrooms.
Do they know the food was spiked with blotter acid ?;o)
That's pretty good pay for holding a sign. (Where do these people charge their cell phones???)
Perhaps FReepers should post ads for these “Jobs”, and flood them with applicants. ;-)
I’d walk a mile for a slab of homemade vegan casserole....the other way.
Occupy Chicago Protestor Is Getting Paid $22/Hour Plus Overtime
I'm rethinking this...
Why don't unemployed FReepers apply?
Go with signs that don't make sense, like the lady today who was complaining that she made $55K a year, and only had $300 a month in discretionary income.
I've always thought vegan casseroles were something lesbians ate.
Rich, isn't it? They are living high off the tofu hog and protesting that rich people are taking advantage of poor people.
"Because people are tired of being fed poison."
You ungrateful bastards expect to be fed?
By who's backbreaking work, you idiots?
You think the food is poison? Don't eat it! Grow your own damn food! Oh, but that would take effort, and work, and you might get some mud on your nike shoes!
Damn leaches!
Well to be true to the cause, it can only be from solar or wind, right?
That’s one of the latest memes from the left.
They point to the listeria outbreaks recently as proof.
But they fail to mention some things about the farms the listeria tainted products are coming from.
LOL, as if!
I hate the hypocrisy.
Not only that, the freaks get gourmet cookies. Homeless? Not interested.
They can feed these freaks, but they cannot feed the homeless?
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