{"id":1591,"date":"2011-10-05T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2011-10-05T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T18:00:27","slug":"wall-street-in-canton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/10\/05\/wall-street-in-canton\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street in Canton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1592\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/10\/wallstdemo-002.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1592\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1592\" title=\"wallstdemo 002\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/10\/wallstdemo-002-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/10\/wallstdemo-002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/10\/wallstdemo-002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/10\/wallstdemo-002.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Lawrence University students leading Wall St. (99%) action.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This morning, on desks and tables in classrooms across the St. Lawrence University campus, strips of paper were placed at each seat inviting students to join today&#8217;s\u00a0 noon student walk out in support of those tenting, marching and getting arrested in NYC and other urban centers across the country. I caught up with this small but determined and vocal group of about 20 students, who read a prepared statement in support of the Wall Street activists and in solidarity with the &#8220;99%&#8221; of Americans who are not among the fabulously wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>Some are calling this movement &#8220;the Tea Party of the left,&#8221; while others dismiss it as a ragtag pack of disgruntled and not very articulate troublemakers.<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting&#8211;and here the analogy with the early days of the Tea Party may hold&#8211;is the apparent spontaneous upsurge of support, across the country, for the original small and disorganized group of protesters who pitched tents in lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your take? (Check out Brian Mann&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/05\/wall-street-protest-in-glens-falls\/\">entry<\/a> about the Glens Falls &#8220;Wall St. Demonstration&#8221; today.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, on desks and tables in classrooms across the St. Lawrence University campus, strips [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6144,5623,20,6107,6143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}