New York. Pregnant Seattle protester miscarries after being kicked, pepper sprayed. By David EdwardsTuesday, November 22, 2011 9:45 EDT A woman who was pepper sprayed during during a raid on Occupy Seattle last week is blaming police after she miscarried Sunday.
Jennifer Fox, 19, told The Stranger that she had been with the Occupy protests since they started in Westlake Park. She said she was homeless and three months pregnant, but felt the need to join activists during their march last Tuesday. “I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,” Fox recalled. “I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. She claimed that police hit her in the stomach twice before pepper spraying her. “Right before I turned, both cops lifted their pepper spray and sprayed me. Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Joshua Trujillo snapped a picture of Fox in apparent agony as another activist carried her to an ambulance. While doctors at Harborview Medical Center didn’t see any problems at the time, things took a turn for the worst Sunday.
David Edwards. 5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation. At this moment, a whole lot of people, most of them 15 to 20 years younger than me, are protesting in every major city.
What are they angry about? A lot of things, some of which are partially my fault. See, I'm a part of Generation X, the post-Baby Boom era kids who grew up on a mental diet of Beavis and Butthead and Alice in Chains. We wrote poems about how angry we were at our fathers, wore goatees like weapons and made panties burst into flames by playing Pearl Jam's Black on our acoustic guitars.
We were a bridge from the Baby Boomers to all you guys who are in high school and college now. This is not a sarcastic apology, I'm not a big enough dick to write all of this as a backhanded insult about how lazy and entitled you are. I'm honestly apologizing for ... #5. During one "Occupy Wall Street" protest, somebody from the Chicago Board of Trade dumped McDonald's applications on the protesters.
Via Weknowmemes.com But I'm pretty sure we taught you the opposite of that. Photos.com #4. RePost: Letter From A Liberal To A Young Marine (That 53% Guy) « Faustian urGe. Rarely do I ever like to just repost someone else’s work, but this one… this one… is simply a magnificent liberal response to an “anti-99%” letter from a young and hard-working Marine.
The understanding the original author presents is an example to me — and I hope all of us, liberal or conservative — of how to respond to those who disagree with us. I am humbled and awed at once. Great response Max Udargo. You reset the bar very high. In the picture, you’re holding up a sheet of paper that says: I am a former Marine. I wanted to respond to you as a liberal. First, let me say that I think it’s great that you have such a strong work ethic and I agree with you that you have much to be proud of. I have a nephew in the Marine Corps, so I have some idea of how tough that can be. So, if you think being a liberal means that I don’t value hard work or a strong work ethic, you’re wrong. I understand your pride in what you’ve accomplished, but I want to ask you something. Look, you’re a tough kid.