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By Will Collette
OK, here we go. News media in and around Providence publicized a letter from the Occupy Providence movement about the launch of our own home grown version of this national phenomenon. According to the communique, a march will start at Burnside Park, just off Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence and wind through the city.
The march will "stop at locations that have particular significance for local struggles and to hear from representatives of community organizations about their fights and what we can do to help them."
The Occupy Providence graphic provides contact information.
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| Brown U. students get a head start |
A closely related Occupy College Hill group will provide a vehicle for mobilizing Brown and RISD students, faculty and staff and East Side folks in the activity.
As I wrote yesterday, the "Occupy" movement is very disappointing to rigid ideologues and neat freaks who expect political protest to operate on a well-plotted schedule with tight message discipline. When I was a young organizer, we used to call the style of planning and execution the Occupy movement employs as "roll your own." That's not, BTW, a criticism.