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The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas
One month in, ‘99 percenters’ following grows Grassroots movement gains global traction
Occupy Denton moves to Fry Street, downtown
JOSH PHERIGO
A LEX M ACON
Editor-in-chief
Senior Staff Writer
& WIRE R EPORTS
A group of about 30 protesters marched at the Wells Fargo building in downtown Denton on Saturday, What began as a protest against corporate greed on the echoing the sentiments of the movement that started on streets of lower Manhattan has, in one month, grown into Wall Street and has spread to cities around the world. an international movement, as self-described “99-percenThe makeshift campsite that went up on the corner of ters” occupy public parks and city streets from small-town Fry and Hickory streets seemed to make it official: Denton America to the steps of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. has now joined the long list of cities being “occupied” by Protests sprouted in more than 900 cities worldwide demonstrators who say they are fed up with corporate over the weekend, representing the latest wave in a tide greed and income inequality, among other things. of global demonstrations against a wide range of issues Garrett Graham, a radio, television and film senior and including the growing wealth gap, corporate corruption member of the media team for Occupy Denton, spent and environmental mismanagement. about a week with the Occupy group in Washington, However, criticism of the movements’ lack of specific D.C., before coming back to Denton to help kick-start the policy demands has plagued Occupy participants since movement here. He said seeing the movement in D.C. the original group pitched tents in Wall Street’s Zuccotti had filled him with “an overwhelming sense of hope.” Park four weeks ago. “These are not just protests,” Graham said. “You enter Protesters’ messages address a variety of issues, with a different world when you’re inside one of these.” signs and chants calling for an end to financial inequality, Graham said Occupy Denton organizers had spoken animal cruelty, corporate control of Washington, environwith both the Student Activities Center and UNT Police mental pollution and rampant greed. Department, neither of whom objected to the group Reaction to the protests has been mixed. staying on campus. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s live-in girlfriend A core group of about 15 stays at Fry and Hickory overDiana Taylor sits on the board of directors for Brookfield night – with occasional breaks to go to class or go home Office Properties, the protest site’s owner. to shower – while during the day the numbers grow to Bloomberg told reporters Monday that he has not about 50, a mix of curious students and occupiers who discussed the protest with Taylor. have slept in tents for two nights. “I can tell you that pillow talk in our house is not about The Occupy Denton home base features a small Occupy Wall Street or Brookfield Properties,” Bloomberg library, a substantial stash of donated food and about said, as reported by the Associated Press. nine tents that occupiers ducked into to avoid rain The protests, Bloomberg said, have cost the city more Monday night. than $3.5 million in security and cleanup costs since they began Sept. 17, but will be allowed to continue as long as protesters obey city laws. See DENTON on Page 3 OLIVIER DOULIERY/ABACA PRESS/MCT Well into the early stages of the 2012 presidential race, President Barack Obama has stayed publicly neutral on the protest, but that may change. Senior White House adviser David Plouffe last week characterized the national protests as “the same conversations people are having in living rooms and kitchens all across PABLO A RAUZ America.” Staff Writer He went on to define the movement as pitting the values Inspired by the Occupy of Wall Street against those of movement that began on Wall Main Street. Other Democrat Street last month, protesters leaders such as Nancy Pelosi in several North Texas cities have echoed that sentiment, have taken root over the past rhetoric that has drawn two weeks. comparisons of the grassroots Tent villages have popped nature of the Occupy moveup in Dallas, Fort Worth and ment to that of the tea party Denton in support of the origin 2009. inal demonstration. About However, Republican pres350 protesters marched to the idential candidate Herman Goldman Sachs headquarters Cain had harsh words for the building in uptown Dallas on protesters, claiming their Saturday afternoon. protests were an assault on capitalism. Civil rights solidarity “Don’t blame Wall Street, On Friday night, the Rev. don’t blame the big banks; if Peter Johnson, a civil rights you don’t have a job and you’re activist who marched with not rich, blame yourself,” Cain Martin Luther King Jr. in the said. “It is not a person’s fault 1960s, spoke to a crowd of about because they succeeded; it is a 60, mostly young protesters at person’s fault if they failed. And the encampment in Pioneer so this is why I don’t understand Park in downtown Dallas. these demonstrations and what “You all have the opportuis it that they’re looking for.” nity to change the destiny of PHOTOS BY JAMES COREAS/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER As part of a global day of our nation. What you all are Top: A rally within blocks of the White House brought out several thousand protestors to mark the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan War, Oct. 6, 2011, at Free- doing is very important, the action on Oct. 15, more than dom Plaza in Washington, D.C. 1,500 Occupy events were held whole world is watching,” he in 82 countries, according to said. Middle and Above Right: Protesters from Occupy Dallas gather in front of Goldman Sachs after marching from Pioneer Park Saturday afternoon. the movement’s website, occuAbove Left: Students and residents gathered by the lawn corner of Fry and Hickory streets by the Language Building Monday afternoon. The group gathered to pywallst.org. See DALLAS on Page 3 discuss the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement occupations.
Occupy movement spreads in North Texas
One killed, one injured in near-campus stabbing A NN SMAJSTRLA Staff Writer
A man was killed and another was seriously injured early Sunday morning during a stabbing fight in the parking lot of Bar Rio, said Ryan Grelle, public information officer for the
Denton Police Department. The three men were fighting outside the bar around 2 a.m. when the suspect produced a knife and stabbed the two victims, Grelle said. One victim died on the scene, and the other was transported to the hospital
and remains there in serious condition. The suspect of the stabbing remains at large. He was described by witnesses as a Hispanic male in his early 20s about 5-feet-5inches tall, Grelle said. The Denton Police Department
is investigating the homicide and questioning witnesses. It remains unclear where the fight began, Grelle said, but it ended in the parking lot in front of Bar Rio and Ringers. Bar Rio is located in a shopping center at the corner of Eagle
Drive and Bernard Street next to Ringers bar, the EZ Check convenience store and a vacant building that once housed the R-Bar. EZ Check employee Rabin Paudyal was closing the convenience store when the homicide occurred but did not witness it.
Paudyal said violence is a frequent occurrence in that parking lot and said he is concerned for the people who live in the nearby apartments.
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