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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Vancouver
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I suck at trying to explain things, so please bear with me here.
Vancouver isn't necessarily there because we were hit hard.
Even if Vancouver got massively big, I think it's quite legitimate as a sign of solidarity. There were plenty of 1%ers in New York. But they aren't too jaded to understand that they lucked out and had advantages within a broken system.
Just because I stand with the poor doesn't mean I would fake it and throw my sim card back into a beater phone, or wear my painting clothes to a protest. It actually lends a lot more legitimacy to the protest if you are dressed nicely and well spoken and literate. If it truly was just a bunch of pot head hippies that went to the protests, the world would just ignore them.
Does that make any sense at all?
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