Protesters rally for “Occupy Flagstaff,” look to emulate national movement [View All]

October 11, 2011 By William Brown

This past Thursday, community members lined up and down the sidewalk in front of Flagstaff City Hall in support of the Occupy Wall Street Protests.

Over a hundred people attended the event, Occupy Flagstaff, and nearly all were bearing signs with slogans such as, “It is the people whom all the authority belongs” or “Wake up, America!”

Occupy Flagstaff’s official Facebook page described the true nature of the protest.

“We are the 99 percent . . . We are not fighting the wealthy here, but rather the one percent who control everything from political to social to economic institutions, who — with their greed and corruption — had killed our dream, the American dream, and left us with no choice but to revolt.” ...

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