If all publicity is good publicity, the Occupy Delaware people have plenty to be pleased about with yesterday’s News Journal coverage.
“100 Protesters” feels like a large number and for the first few paragraphs the coverage was relatively free of the sneering condescension that NJ editors typically spray all over stories like this.
WILMINGTON — About 100 Occupy Delaware protesters marched through downtown on Saturday, stopping in front of several banks to shout their frustrations over inequality, corporate greed and political corruption.
“Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!” they chanted in front of Bank of America.
“The people, united, will never be defeated!” they yelled at PNC Bank and Citizens Bank.
“We are the 99 percent!” they cheered. “And so are you!”
This fits a trend nationally, as the greatest success of the OWS movement has been to shift the narrative in the media. But the News Journal could not resist in finding the protestors with different agendas:
Other protesters brought different agendas to the march.
Some signs urged an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. One pushed for an audit of the “unconstitutional Federal Reserve,” another for an end to genetically modified organisms in the food supply and still another proclaimed “Robin Hood was right.”
Bernie August of Newark said he was most concerned about the threat of nuclear weapons and “the machines of war.” He wore a Soviet Union pin on his black beret and a Malcolm X pin on his fleece vest. He calls himself “a red” but doesn’t consider himself a Communist.
Bernie sounds like exactly the professional elder experienced protestor Liberal Geek spoke of several weeks ago: trying to jump on the bandwagon of the Occupy Movement so as to continue their decades long history of protesting that began in the 60’s. I am sorry Bernie, but you are the type of person who gives the Occupy movement a bad name. Nuclear Weapons? Machines of War? Malcolm X? I’m a Red? Sweet Jesus. Try to stay on topic there Bernie. Indeed, if I didn’t know better, I would have to assume Bernie was a plant from the Republican Party.