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Occupy Little Rock marches through downtown


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Updated: 10/15/2011 3:09 pm Published: 10/15/2011 3:06 pm

LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Over 500 hundred people marched this morning through the streets of downtown in support of the Occupy Little Rock demonstration.

The group marched to the State Capitol to voice their frustrations with the national and local economy. Participants say the income gap between rich and poor Arkansans is too great. Therefore, they took their message to the streets.

"This is a really good turnout. I am super pumped up about how everything turned out," said participant Catherine Hicks.

Demonstrators held signs and screamed chants throughout the morning.

"I believe we live in a society where corporate interests override the interests of the average citizen," said participant William Coody.

Police say there were no problems created by the group.

"These individuals have been very nice and they have cooperated," said Lt. Terry Hastings.

Hastings also said at least one window was broken overnight Friday at Bank of America, but it is unclear whether Occupy Little Rock had anything to do with it.

After the march, the protest went to the Downtown Library. But it must be over when the building closes. Participants are trying to find a permanent location to stage overnight.

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raerae - 10/16/2011 12:34 PM
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Spirit1776, I agree with you 100%.

Outcast1 - 10/15/2011 5:30 PM
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I hope no one associated with the movement was the cause of any trouble. I also hope that every person involved in the movement, and all their relatives and friends, are or will be registered to vote. The discontent I see today is very much like what the US experienced in the early 1900s. The gap between the haves and the have nots was enormous; corporate interests controlled much of the economy, and more than a few politicians were likewise under the interests' control. But there was also a growing number of media--print media, then--stories that thoroughly researched then exposed the controls, the graft, the corruption, and how too many in local and state politics were either part of the problem or powerless to really change things. It would not be a clean sweep, but enough people got concerned and mad enough to push changes and reforms through the opposition, at the local, state and federal levels. Public faith in government was restored to a fair degree. Ground got lost in the 1920s, but the trauma of the Depression revived the need, the desperation for change. More selfish interests and agendas have again resurfaced; whether they know it or not, members of the Tea Party aid and abet goals that will hurt a lot of people. Many of them are sincere, but I and many other citizens believe they are wrong. We, the People--by the way, the first three words of the US Constitution--need, deserve and must have movements like OWS, if for no other reason than to make sure one point of view alone never dominates. If the OWS and like movements will result in real reform, and FOR the people, all the better.

Spirit1776 - 10/15/2011 5:25 PM
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Spirit1776 - 10/15/2011 5:25 PM
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Spirit1776 - 10/15/2011 5:24 PM
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Spirit1776 - 10/15/2011 5:24 PM
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Spirit1776 - 10/15/2011 5:23 PM
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Spirit1776 - 10/15/2011 5:22 PM
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Useful idiots is a name that no group of people would like to be called. It is however, what most Americans are relied upon to be by the powers that be. When the voting segment of our country fails to vote to stay free and instead allows itself to fall for the same old word games and mind manipulation, it sadly earns the title of useful idiots. In contemporary America, too many Americans are naive about their political "system" and its politicians. Therefore, we are as a people, where we are, because we allow it to be so. You see, America is a land of plenty, plenty of food, plenty of money, plenty of gods, plenty of corrupt politicians and alas, plenty of useful idiots that repetively vote for them. http://usefulidiots.com/
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