"News from other Occupy Wall Street protests around Iowa" .DesMoinesRegister.com http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2011/10/29/news-from-other-occupy-wall-street-protests-around-iowa/
Fairfield: In lieu of continuous occupation, a local group of protesters organized an informational gathering in Howard Park and also screened the documentary “The Corporation” at a local coffeehouse. Video from the park event: http://vimeo.com/30531665 #Occupy Fairfield: Awareness and Education from Wayside Shine Productions on Vimeo. One of the Fairfield supporters, Rianna Koppel, also had this to say: I don’t want to speak on behalf of the entire Occupy Fairfield Group, but I can speak personally on why I don’t think we are occupying a public space consistently. Fairfield is home to a community that is based in Transcendental Meditation. At our university, Maharishi University of Mangement, many students, staff, and faculty are already working on many projects that relate directly to sustainability, consciousness, local economy, local cooperatives — financial and otherwise, farmer’s markets and CSAs, and many, many more. What I think the purpose of our local Occupy movement is has to do more with education, awareness, and continued promotion of local projects and activities that are already taking place to support each other in our community. I think that this is the perspective that everyone is taking here in Fairfield, and so through the Occupy movement, we have strengthened and rallied our community. We do not need to occupy a public space consistently in order to do what we see as the next step from this movement.
