- Morty79
As promised in an earlier post, CL is bringing you voices from the occupation of Charlotte — individual participants, in their own words, talking about why they joined the local Occupy movement.
We asked each person the same three questions: Who are you? Where are you from? Why are you here?
Here’s a list of the voices we’ve collected so far, with more to come:
Rederanged: “I’m tired of not being able to find work.”
Dom and Jacob: “I’m here to help fight for the democracy.”
Matthew: “Corporate America has really gone to the shits.”
Joseph: “We have so much ability to provide.”
JusCaus (aka J.C.) “Getting money out of politics.”
A song called “Dick” from local musicians
Cole: “He got laid off … had to declare bankruptcy”
Tiger: “We need clean air; we need it now.”
David: “Something needs to be done.”
Deacon Don: “There’s been an injustice.”
Steve: “Silence is consent.”
Voices from students at OccupyUNCC
Further reading:
Raleigh occupiers get arrested, Charlotte occupiers get a bank account
24 Hours with Occupy Charlotte
Occupy Charlotte: Working Out the Glitches
CMPD holds Occupy Charlotte press conference
Listen to voices from Wednesday’s #OccupyUNCC
Who are the 99 percent?
Oct. 1: The birth of Occupy Charlotte
This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2011.
Jobs – Corporations keep sending jobs overseas, I don’t know how to stop it. Greed, they don’t care about American workers, just how the top executives make more money. Latest is Whirlpool laying off 5,000, if you read about what they have been doing it makes you sick. Where do the workers go to find other jobs? Congress does nothing, there has to be a fix to having to buy the product that they make in another country after laying off the American worker.