Amy Goodman
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Occupy Wall Street Organizer: Movement Grows Despite Police Effort to "Silence" Protests
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October 11, 2011
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9:07Now Playingwww.DemocracyNow.org - Now in its fourth week, the Occupy Wall Street encampment has attracted thousands of demonstrators who continue to tackle the challenges of self-organizing and building a movement. As their numbers swell and the media debates who they are, the Democracy Now! team packed up our gear and headed to Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan to hear people speak for themselves. Interviewed is Justin Wedes, an organizer with Occupy Wall Street. He describes how New York City police have arrested people for peacefully demonstrating and exerting their free speech rights. "The reaction has been, and I think the whole world sees it now, that ever yime that you try to silence peaceful [protests], you just get an explosion of new support. And I think that's what's happening. It really bares naked the truth about who the NYPD serve and protect and if that's not the people ... then we have a problem."
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