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THE INDYPENDENT2 NOVEMBER 2 – NOVEMBER 22, 2011 THE INDYPENDENTTHE INDYPENDENT, INC.666 BROADWAY, SUITE 500NEW YORK, NY 10012PHONE: 212-904-1282BOARD OF DIRECTORS:Ellen Davidson, Anna Gold,John TarletonGENERAL MANAGER:Arun GuptaSENIOR EDITOR/COORDINATOR:Elizabeth HendersonEDITORIAL COORDINATOR:Manny JalonschiILLUSTRATIONS COORDINATOR:Frank ReynosoPHOTO COORDINATOR:Amelia Holowaty KralesDESIGNERS:Steven Arnerich, Anna Gold,Mikael TarkelaGENERAL INQUIRIES:contact@indypendent.orgSUBMISSIONS AND NEWS TIPS:submissions@indypendent.orgSUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS:indypendent.org/donateADVERTISING AND PROMOTION:ads@indypendent.orgREADER COMMENTS:letters@indypendent.orgVOLUNTEER:volunteer@indypendent.orgINDYKIDS:info@indykids.orgThe Indypendent is a New York-basedfree newspaper published 16 timesa year on Wednesdays for our printand online readership of more than200,000. It is produced by a networkof volunteers who report, write, edit,draw, design, take photos, distribute,fundraise and provide website management.Since 2000, more than 650 journalists,artists and media activists haveparticipated in this project. Winner ofmore than 50 New York CommunityMedia Alliance awards, The Indypendentis funded by subscriptions, readerdonations, grants, merchandise sales,benefits and advertising. We accept submissionsthat look at news and culturethrough a critical lens, exploring howsystems of power — economic, politicaland social — affect the lives of peoplelocally and globally. The Indypendentreserves the right to edit articles forlength, content and clarity.The Indypendent is affiliated with theNew York City Independent MediaCenter, which is part of the global Indymediamovement, an internationalnetwork dedicated to fostering grassrootsmedia production, and withIndyKids, a children’s newspaper.NYC IMC is an open publishing website(nyc.indymedia.org).VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS: Sam Alcoff,Bennett Baumer, Nikki Saint Bautista,Liz Borda, Ellen Davidson, Renée Feltz,Seth Fisher, Sophie Forbes, SusanneFuchs, Mary Annaïse Heglar, IrinaIvanova, Alex Kane, Rob LaQuinta,Ashley Marinaccio, GB Martin, MikeNewton, Jaisal Noor, Nicholas Powers,Sophie Ragsdale, Ann Schneider, JaclynSinquett, Marlena Buczek Smith, ZacharySmith, John Tarleton, Julie Turkewitz,Steven Wishnia and Amy Wolf.ALISON KALNIK, 20, from WhitePlains, N.Y. is a student at SUNYPurchase. She routinely comesdown to the park to support theprotesters.NOVA RODRIGUEZ, 18, is a junior in high school. He lives in Astoria, Queenswith his mother, who has been laid off several times, forcing him to pick up twojobs. He’s slept in the park since Sept. 17. “I know my mom is proud of me becauseI’m fighting for her,” he says. What three words would he use to describethis movement? “A great start.”ELAN COHEN, 23, of Edgemont, N.Y. isa student at SUNY Purchase. He is anEMT volunteer at Liberty Park.PAUL GRANT, 20, of East Orange, N.J. came to Liberty Park because he isfrustrated with the cycle of crime and incarceration that is paralyzing his community.A week before this picture was taken, he met DI SIERRA (right), 19, ofBrooklyn. “I feel happy because I found someone in my life that I can talk to,” hesays. “In my community I’d like to see a lot of the killing stop, a lot of violenceneeds to stop. If everybody can get together like this, there’s no ‘we can’t’ — it’sjust ‘we can.’”JULIE TURKEWITZ AMELIA HOLOWATY KRALES JULIE TURKEWITZAMELIA HOLOWATY KRALES‘WE CONAs far as I canunderstand itmyself, here’swhy I burstinto tears atthe OccupyWall Streetcamp.AMELIA HOLOWATY KRALESPEARL JIMENEZ, 17, of Queens,has slept at Liberty Park since Sept.17. “I am from Queens, but now I’mfrom here,” Jimenez says.KANASKA CARTER, 26, is a musician from Newfoundland, Canada. She hasrelocated to Liberty Park to be a part of what she sees as the beginning ofa global transformation. One thing that has surprised Carter over the pastmonth is the amount of police brutality. However, she says, “We cannot hatethe cops. They’re part of the 99 percent, too. A lot of them are saying, ‘I’drather just be home with my kids right now.’ There’s going to be some thattry to provoke us, but I think if we want to get anywhere, we have to showthem love.”AMELIA HOLOWATY KRALESDAVID SIROONIAN, 32, of New YorkCity is a teacher at the High Schoolof Economics and Finance, which islocated across the street from LibertyPark. Siroonian visits the parkwhenever he can, including duringhis free periods from teaching.JULIE TURKEWITZ
FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLYTAIN MULTITUDES’I was moved, first of all, by what everyone notices first: the variety of people involved,the range of ages, races, classes, colors, cultures. In other words, the 99percent. I saw conversations taking place between people and groups of peoplewhom I’ve never seen talking with such openness and sympathy in all the years(which is to say, my entire life) I’ve spent in New York: grannies talking to goths, abiker with piercings and tattoos talking to a woman in a Hermes scarf. I was struckby how well-organized everything was, and, despite the charge of “vagueness”one keeps reading in the mainstream media, by the clarity — clarity of purpose,clarity of intention, clarity of method, clarity of understanding of the most basicsocial and economic realities. I kept thinking about how, since this movementstarted, I’ve been waking up in the morning without the dread (or at least withoutthe total dread) with which I’ve woken every morning for so long, the vertiginoussense that we’re all falling off a cliff and no one (or almost no one) is saying anythingabout it. In Zuccotti Park I felt a kind of lightening of a weight, a lessening ofthe awful isolation and powerlessness of knowing we’re being lied to and robbedon a daily basis and that everyone knows it and keeps quiet and endures it; theterror of thinking that my own grandchildren will suffer for whatever has beenparalyzing us until just now. I kept feeling these intense surges of emotion — untilI saw a placard with a quote from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: “I am large,I contain multitudes.” And that was when I just lost it and stood there and wept.—Francine ProseFrancine Prose is the author of many bestselling works of fiction. Her latestnovel, My American Life, was published in April 2011. This piece originallyappeared on occupywriters.org.Alberto, of Coney Island, Brooklynsays, “I’m part of the 99 percent becauseI guess it just wasn’t meant tobe.”Photos & Captions by Liz Borda, Amelia Holowaty Krales, Ashley Marinaccio and Julie TurkewitzASHLEY MARINACCIORoz McKevitt, 67, of Long Beach, New York, says, “I have work, kids andgrandchildren and I care. I want a future for everyone and what’s fair is fair.We want the American dream back.”ASHLEY MARINACCIOChris Ruiz, 19, had been sleeping inLiberty Park for six days when thisphoto was taken. “I’m here for tworeasons. First, global equality, andsecond, the independence of PuertoRico — because of America andSpain we lost our native heritage.”LIZ BORDAGretchen VanDyck, 23, of New York City says, “I oppose the negative effects ofneoliberal capitalism on everyday life.”ASHLEY MARINACCIOKristen Schall, 27, of New York City says, “I have over $100,000 in studentdebt, I’m underemployed and trying to live like a ‘grown-up.’”ASHLEY MARINACCIONan Terrie, 18, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,came to Liberty Park on Sept. 17 andhelps with the on-site kitchen.AMELIA HOLOWATY KRALESDiego Espitia, 18, of South Jamaica, Queens, says “I used to have a home, girlfriendand job and lost it all. I’m sick of these wars and people getting laid off.”ASHLEY MARINACCIOTHE INDYPENDENT NOVEMBER 2 – NOVEMBER 22, 2011 3
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