Powerful photo: the woman who symbolically occupied Woodruff Park (Occupy Atlanta)

MadrasT

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Mon Nov-07-11 06:02 PM
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Powerful photo: the woman who symbolically occupied Woodruff Park (Occupy Atlanta)

Members of Occupy Atlanta vowed to avoid a violent confrontation with Atlanta police Sunday night. At a meeting held in Woodruff park, organizers agreed to leave the park when it closed at 11 p.m. to avoid a confrontation with authorities.

However, one woman, Bailey Sablock from Savannah, decided to stick around and get arrested. She called it a "symbolic" gesture for the movement.

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"I understand why other people wouldn't want to get arrested and take that risk, but I don't have a job that I am worried about. I don't have a scholarship that I am worried about losing. I am going to exercise the rights that maybe other people can't afford to right now," said Sablock.

The picture was posted on Occupy Atlanta's https://www.facebook.com/OccupyAtlanta">Facebook page today.

Linky to article here: http://www.wtvm.com/story/15970040/atlanta-police-clash-with">Police Clash With Occupy Atlanta Protestors

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MedleyMisty

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Mon Nov-07-11 06:06 PM
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1. That's wonderful

She's a true human! :)

More and more of us are losing jobs and scholarships. More and more of us can afford to exercise our rights, because we can't afford anything else.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

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Tue Nov-08-11 03:21 PM
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2. civil disobedience.

she's a hero.

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Fire Walk With Me

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Tue Nov-08-11 03:23 PM
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3. Bravo. Remind those who "protect and serve" the 1% about our Constitutional RIGHTS.

The BILL of RIGHTS.

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Tierra_y_Libertad

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Tue Nov-08-11 03:27 PM
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4. Rosa Parks "occupied" a bus seat in a simlar way. K&R

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