Protesters 'Occupy Birmingham' With Signs, Slogans, Grievances
More than 50 people from Birmingham and surrounding cities show up at Martha Baldwin Park on Saturday afternoon to protest income inequality, a corrupt federal government and more.
“I’m here because I think Martha Baldwin would expect me to be here.” There were dozens of reasons why more than 50 protesters came out to Martha Baldwin Park to participate in Occupy Birmingham, but for longtime Birmingham resident and park trustee Elaine Moore, she was there because of the legacy of one of Birmingham’s original activists. “She was active in almost everything in this town to improve civic life,” Moore said of the woman who helped found the Baldwin Public Library and whose name graces the park where the protest — an offshoot of the larger Occupy Wall Street movement — took place Saturday afternoon. “Martha lives in this event.” From improving civic discourse to speaking out against income equality and campaign finance laws…
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Alan Stamm
7:29 pm on Sunday, December 18, 2011
Really, Connie and 'Trees'? A peaceful, respectful demonstration of views about improving civic discourse, "corporate greed," insider trading, campaign finance and other public policy strikes you as a waste of time or hypocrisy because they may have nice homes? . . . Really? That suggests you'd have jeered the original "we, the people" patriots of 1776 as well. more ›