This NY Daily News article features Brendan Hunt and the Occupy drum circle in the picture. In describing the occupants of the park, this author claims the "dedicated participants’ stronghold is on the park’s east side, facing Broadway. The stragglers tend to cluster on the park’s west side..." This is not true. The people on the west side of the park (including the drum circle) were some of the most dedicated folks at the protests. That is where the majority of tents were set up. Most of the people gathered there were sleeping at the park every night. The east side, on the other hand, was the main entrance to the park, and very few people camped out there due to the constant tourist traffic. This article, and others like it, attacked the very heart of the protest using false and divisive reporting.
The Wall Street protesters determined to "Occupy Everything" now find themselves, in a sense, occupied
Brendan Hunt and the Occupy drum circle - Seth Wenig/AP Six weeks after a handful of activists took up residence in Zuccotti Park — the privately owned, publicly accessible plaza covering the block between Liberty St. and Cedar St. from north to south and Broadway and Trinity Pl. from east to west — the occupation has grown beyond all expectations, filling the park to near-bursting while becoming a national symbol of economic discontent and political frustration.
A few hundred occupiers sleep in the park on any given night; many hundred more come during the day to exchange ideas in the sort of public commons that had disappeared in the era of laptops and cell phones; hold and read signs; take in or add to the scene; or join the nightly General Assembly, the governing body of the movement that’s open to all comers and built on principles of participation and consensus.
“What we’re trying to build here,” said Jeff Smith, a member of the Occupy Wall Street press working group, “is a model for the bigger society we’d like to see.”
A few hundred occupiers sleep in the park on any given night; many hundred more come during the day to exchange ideas in the sort of public commons that had disappeared in the era of laptops and cell phones; hold and read signs; take in or add to the scene; or join the nightly General Assembly, the governing body of the movement that’s open to all comers and built on principles of participation and consensus.
“What we’re trying to build here,” said Jeff Smith, a member of the Occupy Wall Street press working group, “is a model for the bigger society we’d like to see.”
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