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In reply to the discussion: Philadelphia Mayor Apparently Wants Occupy National Gathering Participants to Go Thirsty in Heat [View all]SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)They're out there fighting the hard fight that others of us aren't or can't. They're smart, they have a vision and they have goals.
And that's what's so maddening about something that is so silly and so easily avoided. I can't think of a single city over the last few months that has welcomed Occupy with open arms, eager to help in any way they could. Why would the Occupy leaders think that this would be different? I mean come on - they're protesting and speaking truth to power, and they expect the people that hold that power to sustain them because they didn't come prepared to sustain themselves?
Expecting the city to provide them free water just feeds into the stereotypes that the right tries to promulgate about Occupy - that they're lazy do nothings that want everything handed to them.