Posted on 11/19/2011 6:24:25 PM PST by matt04
A city man working on the sanitation team at the Occupy Wall Street protests was featured on the MTV show “True Life” on Nov. 5.
In the episode “I’m Occupying Wall Street,” 23-year-old Bryan Guyette is seen rallying his fellow protesters to clean up Zuccotti Park in the financial district, where thousands of people have staged demonstrations demanding economic equality since September 17.
Guyette, who has been at the park almost non-stop since day one, worked to end a tense stand-off between protesters and the New York City police department, which planned to forcibly evict the massive crowd Oct. 13 so filthy conditions in the privately-owned park could be cleaned.
After the group cleaned up its mess at Guyette’s and his teammates’ urging, the park owners allowed the occupiers to stay.
His family owns the Easthampton restaurant Tavern on the Hill. He dropped out of Greenfield Community College, where he was an art history major. Amy Guyette, his mother, said he has only been home twice, for a total of about five days, since the occupation began.
“I’m just a middle-class white kid from Northampton, Massachusetts,” Bryan Guyette says in the TV show. “I’ve seen a lot of communities in my area become pretty economically depressed. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and that doesn’t seem fair to me.”
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Link to full episode in article, remindes me why I never watch MTV.
Correction Bryan. The thieves are getting richer. You really need to come into the real world.
I don't get it, his family are small business men and women. Outstanding Resturant BTW, with an incredible view...
By " home free" I mean living in his moms basement with no money involved.
How much is he being paid and by who?
THAT would be nice to know.
Obviously Massachusetts needs to be just a little bit further to the left, that would immediately solve the problems he's seeing.
And here I was thinking that he must have been in an engineering program - to become a 'sanitary engineer'.
“The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and that doesn’t seem fair to me.”
Rich. Poor. Fair.
All hopelessly contaminated words when divorced from a desire for wisdom.
Oops, make that ‘Sanitation Engineer’...
Damn hard working honest people, well at least he is not an ax murder, yet. They can help him, cut off his money, and rent out his room.
That vacant look on his face must come from the peaceful feeling he gets when the afternoon breeze goes in one of his ears and exits the other. That, or pot.
How would he feel if people “occupied” the parking lot of his family’s restaurant, harassing patrons and causing who knows how many other potential customers to keep driving by?
Trust fund baby in waiting...
Or the basics of individual liberty. This guy’s made a series of dumb moves and... it’s some rich guys fault.
The problem there is no longer shop class in school, or home economics or the variety of hands on classes to get kids interested in woodworking, automotive work, mechanics, electrical.
The public schools have dropped those classes for what reason I don’t understand.
“to become a ‘sanitary engineer’.”
Sanitary engineer: An engineer, who fell into a vat of alcohol, while trying to get a sample.
Nice lip-piercing, you damn communist.
Thanks God, we still have brave youth to fill the ranks in the military.
The metrosexual, wussified, and neutered creature portrayed on this program is definitely not one of them.
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