A small group of demonstrators pitched tents and slept outside the Franklin Street post office Saturday night in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement spreading across the nation.
Police said they no plans to remove the protesters, whose tents are located off to the side of Peace and Justice Plaza, not blocking the building’s front doors.
About 110 people gathered Saturday morning for Occupy Chapel Hill, billed by organizers as a day of resistance. They included young anarchists and veterans of Vietnam and other protest movements, as well as several people who said they had lost work in recent years.
Bill Sward of Hillsborough held a pole with an index-card size sign that said “99 percent,” in reference to the 1 percent of Americans who own 40 percent of the wealth in the United States, according to fliers at the event. Sward lost his cabinet-maker job two years ago at age 66 when the company’s work slowed.
“The people who want there to be a point don’t get the point,” he said of Occupy Wall Street’s broadly anti-corporate message. “This is about living, the quality of people’s lives. The government should be helping us live. Businesses should not determine how we live.”
Organizers expected at least 20 people to camp out and will meet at 6 p.When the stone sits in the oil painting reproduction,m, today to discuss next steps.Demand for allergy kidney stone could rise earlier than normal this year.
In Durham, organizers plan to meet at 3 p.m. today on CCB Plaza downtown to consider proposals for an encampment in that city.
People had different reasons for attending Occupy Chapel Hill. Another flier at the event urged the overturn of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission. The 2010 decision lets corporations, unions and others spend unlimited money on ads for and against candidates. A recent House resolution seeks a constitutional amendment to overturn it.
Holly Morris of Efland said she lost her Hillsborough upholsterer’s job in 2007 after 21 years when the company moved manufacturing jobs overseas. She went to Durham Technical Community College and now works part time as a certified nursing assistant.
“We don’t make anything here anymore,” she said. "We have to have a manufacturing base."
Morris wants wealthy Americans to pay more in taxes. “They use the fire department. They use the police. They use the bridges,” she said. “It’s only fair for them to pay for these things too.”
Emily Gordon of Carrboro wore a bright orange T-shirt that said “I Need a Job.” She lost her job at a local nonprofit in 2009 and is waiting to hear on a part-time job that pays $9 an hour.
“My unemployment is out. I’m basically running up credit cards,” she said.the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. “If I don’t get something soon,By Alex Lippa Close-up of plastic card in Massachusetts. I’m going to be in deep trouble.”
Not all of the weekend demonstrators had lost jobs.
April Grossman, a Realtor, lost her office.
The Chapel Hill resident said she had to close the physical office of her Shelter Real Estate company because of the economy, though she and her agents remain working.
“My goal is for the general public to see the impact it has on so many people,” she said. “I’m disgusted.” One of the reasons she left her corporate real estate job overseeing 37 agents was because of the high salaries she saw going to the company’s top executives and the message it was sending to those lower down.
“I think what they were appealing to was the greed, that if they stayed with the company” they could make those salaries one day too, she said. “That was why I opened my own office.”
On Sunday morning, about two dozen mostly young people sat outside the downtown Chapel Hill post office, their bright plastic tents a few feet away in a cluster.
Katya Roytburd, a 34-year old university researcher, said the group is purposefully not labeling itself, keeping its message broad to include many viewpoints.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
“As long as we are wide open we are almost universally inclusive,” she said Saturday. “Someone asked me what groups are here. I said I honestly didn’t know. We’re just representing ourselves.”
Police said they no plans to remove the protesters, whose tents are located off to the side of Peace and Justice Plaza, not blocking the building’s front doors.
About 110 people gathered Saturday morning for Occupy Chapel Hill, billed by organizers as a day of resistance. They included young anarchists and veterans of Vietnam and other protest movements, as well as several people who said they had lost work in recent years.
Bill Sward of Hillsborough held a pole with an index-card size sign that said “99 percent,” in reference to the 1 percent of Americans who own 40 percent of the wealth in the United States, according to fliers at the event. Sward lost his cabinet-maker job two years ago at age 66 when the company’s work slowed.
“The people who want there to be a point don’t get the point,” he said of Occupy Wall Street’s broadly anti-corporate message. “This is about living, the quality of people’s lives. The government should be helping us live. Businesses should not determine how we live.”
Organizers expected at least 20 people to camp out and will meet at 6 p.When the stone sits in the oil painting reproduction,m, today to discuss next steps.Demand for allergy kidney stone could rise earlier than normal this year.
In Durham, organizers plan to meet at 3 p.m. today on CCB Plaza downtown to consider proposals for an encampment in that city.
People had different reasons for attending Occupy Chapel Hill. Another flier at the event urged the overturn of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission. The 2010 decision lets corporations, unions and others spend unlimited money on ads for and against candidates. A recent House resolution seeks a constitutional amendment to overturn it.
Holly Morris of Efland said she lost her Hillsborough upholsterer’s job in 2007 after 21 years when the company moved manufacturing jobs overseas. She went to Durham Technical Community College and now works part time as a certified nursing assistant.
“We don’t make anything here anymore,” she said. "We have to have a manufacturing base."
Morris wants wealthy Americans to pay more in taxes. “They use the fire department. They use the police. They use the bridges,” she said. “It’s only fair for them to pay for these things too.”
Emily Gordon of Carrboro wore a bright orange T-shirt that said “I Need a Job.” She lost her job at a local nonprofit in 2009 and is waiting to hear on a part-time job that pays $9 an hour.
“My unemployment is out. I’m basically running up credit cards,” she said.the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. “If I don’t get something soon,By Alex Lippa Close-up of plastic card in Massachusetts. I’m going to be in deep trouble.”
Not all of the weekend demonstrators had lost jobs.
April Grossman, a Realtor, lost her office.
The Chapel Hill resident said she had to close the physical office of her Shelter Real Estate company because of the economy, though she and her agents remain working.
“My goal is for the general public to see the impact it has on so many people,” she said. “I’m disgusted.” One of the reasons she left her corporate real estate job overseeing 37 agents was because of the high salaries she saw going to the company’s top executives and the message it was sending to those lower down.
“I think what they were appealing to was the greed, that if they stayed with the company” they could make those salaries one day too, she said. “That was why I opened my own office.”
On Sunday morning, about two dozen mostly young people sat outside the downtown Chapel Hill post office, their bright plastic tents a few feet away in a cluster.
Katya Roytburd, a 34-year old university researcher, said the group is purposefully not labeling itself, keeping its message broad to include many viewpoints.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
“As long as we are wide open we are almost universally inclusive,” she said Saturday. “Someone asked me what groups are here. I said I honestly didn’t know. We’re just representing ourselves.”
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