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"Occupy" supporters to gather in Vancouver Monday evening
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
Alison Bailey Email news tips to alison.bailey@corusent.com
9/17/2012

Today is the first anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street in New York.

And although the first anniversary of Occupy Vancouver is not for another month, supporters of the movement are expected to gather in Vancouver Monday evening.

They're planning to be at the federal building on West Georgia Street and Hamilton at 5pm to mark the start of the movement in New York, and the day parliament re-opens -- to "tell Harper we are watching" -- according to the Occupy Vancouver website.

This gathering follows one over the weekend at Grandview Park.

The Vancouver occupation, which lasted more than one month at the Art Gallery -- started October 15th last year.


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  1. Ron_26 posted on 09/17/2012 08:53 AM
    So, in short, there'll be a couple of guys who don't have anything else to do wandering around West Georgia this evening.
  2. BrandtH posted on 09/17/2012 12:52 PM
    We must abandon the “love it or leave it” attitude, where the general public has rolled over for Corporate America and accepted it’s our job to pay their way. Year after year these companies report record profits so why aren’t they paying record taxes? These companies have the power to not only save our economy but to close the income gap by paying employees more but instead they gut the Middle Class for all they’re worth. Every single protester is a hero in my book and I even helped create some free posters for the cause which you can download from my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/11/propaganda-for-occupy-movement.html
    1. Ron_26 posted on 09/17/2012 01:05 PM
      @BrandtH "Companies" employ people. People pay taxes. Highly taxed companies employ less people.
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