As mentioned in a previous thread, the Occupy movement in Atlanta was initially welcomed by the mayor to stay in a downtown park through early November. Then they started pushing boundaries, namely holding a concert in that park, after which the mayor swiftly lost his patience with them and had the police remove the organization from the park. The removal involved more that 50 arrests, but by all accounts was entirely without incident.
At this point the Occupy Atlanta organization has been wandering the city to various locations seeking a new place to camp. They were at the Martin Luther King center for awhile, but they were made to leave each morning when the center opened. Wait. Rewind.... Yes - the MLK center won't even let them stay. What does that say? Okay - continue... Now, the organization had already started to come under the influence of a local supposed Homeless advocate who operates what many consider to be one of the most poorly run, most dangerous, irresponsible homeless shelters in Atlanta, called Peachtree-Pine. When my girlfriend (now fiance) was carjacked and the cracked perp was finally arrested, he gave this shelter as his address for the police report. Yes, that kinda shelter. Drug treatment? Naw - they don't need none of that nonsense at Peachtree-Pine! So - yes I have a personal bone to pick with the place, but to continue... At this point, without a place to go and closely aligned with this shelter, Occupy Atlanta has actually moved into the shelter. Not entirely suprising considering the AJC's assertion that "The Occupy Atlanta movement claims it has roughly 1,000 members, full and part time, about a quarter of which are homeless, according to one organizer." ( http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/15910585/occupy-atlanta-establishes-home-base-in-homeless-shelter ) So... on all the TV coverage many of the Occupy Atlanta kids are sitting around with expensive MacBooks, iPads, and video equipment. Now I wonder how those kids with all their fancy gadgets will coexist with the other residents of Peachtree-Pine. Or maybe, coincidentally, about 25% of the Occupy Atlanta movement actually moved (back) into Peachtree-Pine? Interesting to watch, and definitely causing alot of people to talk about them. Not sure if that will cause change. Maybe a change in consciousness, but action? Not sure... -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343813 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
