Occupy DC to march across the Key Bridge this afternoon
Posted by: Leigh Finnegan in News, Vox Populi, tags: Key Bridge, Occupy DC
After a story ran earlier this week in The Hoya about Georgetown’s conspicuous absence from the Occupy DC protest (which prompted a certain American University student to accuse us all of being 1%-ers), apparently the Occupiers have decided to take the action to us. It has been announced that later today, at about 2:30 p.m., the McPherson Square gang will be marching from their place of outdoor residence to the Key Bridge, in an event entitled “Action: Get on the Bridge!”
According to Occupy DC‘s website, the event, which is being billed as a “Labor-Community-Occupy Day of Action,” is in solidarity with OurDC, a not-for-profit organization aimed at bringing jobs into the District. The website’s description of the event cites the Key Bridge, the structural flaws of which were also the premise for a recent speech by President Obama, as “a vivid example of the many roads, schools and other infrastructure sites in need of repair.”
The D.C. Occupiers won’t be alone in their Key Bridge protests. Occupy NOVA, the Northern Virginia contingent of the Occupy movement which has recently started hanging out in Welburn Square, are also planning on marching to the bridge tomorrow afternoon, meeting their D.C. kindred spirits for the protest.
Vox would like to point out that, while hoards of protesters parading across the District and Northern Virginia will surely make quite the statement, the Occupy Wall Street people are currently en route from the now-empty Zucotti Park all the way to the District.
Photo from Georgetown Law.
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It’s also the global day of action for the 2-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street (and response to their eviction). Perfect opportunity to prove the Hoya wrong and show solidarity for OWS. Georgetown Occupy will be there!
Georgetown students: meet at the front gates at 4 PM to head over to the Key Bridge together!
I am ashamed that any Georgetown student would be at these protests. The university provides tremendous resources in the form of extracurricular activities, internships, and academic opportunities that can put you in the right position to get a job in after college. Spend your time preparing to succeed rather than complaining.
I am ashamed that a Georgetown student would look at the tremendous resources that she/he has, and would not feel compelled to fight for others to have those same resources. Everyone should have the opportunity to make the most of themselves. When there is such vast income inequality and such little governmental support for the disadvantaged, it’s the responsibliity of everyone – especially people who are already priveleged – to fight for equality and opportunity.
Sorry Madeline, I’m too busy working my ass off in hopes of getting a job by the end of May so I can start paying off these student loans instead of living out of a tent in some public park under the constant threat of eviction.
Living out of a tent in a park ≠ marching in solidarity for one afternoon.
I’m busy working too, and can’t live in a park. So when I can help through actions like this, I do.
Help through actions like BLOCKING BRIDGE TRAFFIC SO PEOPLE CAN’T GET TO THEIR JOBS
We are the 99% who can’t get to their jobs!
I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT!
There is no such thing as the 99%ers. This movement wants want others have worked for. The disparity in income although wide is meaningless. The top and bottom 3% are the exception and the rest of us fall in-between and yes there is a disparity in that group also, but work and education and what you do with it has more to do with where you land in this group is very much up to you.
Georgetown Students are on the right track by getting a great education and can change the world with deeds and setting a higher moral standard when they are in charge of the country. Disrupting hard working people from going or coming from work is a great way to get everyone angry at you. Do you want your children associated with Van Jones, SCIU, move on . org, Not I, and the school endorsed this event, President Degoia should be ashamed this has happened.
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Some of these comments make me ashamed to be a Georgetown student. Many of you are proof of that our country’s leaders and (unfortunately) future leaders are totally morally bankrupt. Work hard! Get that internship! But whatever you do, don’t think about all those poor and unemployed people protesting around you.
[...] C.H. responds to some Occupy D.C. haters in the comments section: Some of these comments make me ashamed to be a Georgetown student. Many of you are proof of that our country’s leaders and (unfortunately) future leaders are totally morally bankrupt. Work hard! Get that internship! But whatever you do, don’t think about all those poor and unemployed people protesting around you. [...]