Tuesday, July 07, 2015

This is Kelly Hanlin. She is one of the Occupy protesters. Of all things she met her husband at the protests. After she was pepper sprayed. 

She and her spouse now have a baby girl, I believe it was. What could be more perfect. I wish her and her new family the best for the future.

NEW YORK, July 7 (UPI) -- New York City (click here) agreed to pay more than $330,000 to six Occupy Wall Street protesters who said police unjustly doused them with pepper spray during a demonstration that helped launched the movement into the spotlight. 

The recently reached settlements, ranging from $52,500 to $60,000 per person, or a total of $332,500, are just some of the payouts arising from the early days of the protests against economic inequalities that began in September 2011....

This is an interesting article in The Atlantic. "Occupy" is shaping the future.

June 10, 2015
By Michael Levitin 

...Nearly four years (click here) after the precipitous rise of Occupy Wall Street, the movement so many thought had disappeared has instead splintered and regrown into a variety of focused causes. Income inequality is the crisis du jour—a problem that all 2016 presidential candidates must grapple with because they can no longer afford not to. And, in fact, it’s just one of a long list of legislative and political successes for which the Occupy movement can take credit....