Protesters relax with donated turkey on Thanksgiving holiday
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November 26, 2011, Saturday
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MOST Americans spent the Thanksgiving holiday snug inside homes with families and football. Others used the day to give thanks alongside strangers at outdoor Occupy encampments, serving turkey or donating their time in solidarity with the anti-Wall Street movement.
Demonstrators say they are protesting against corporate greed and the concentration of wealth in the upper 1 percent of the US population.
In San Francisco, 400 occupiers at a plaza in the financial district were served traditional Thanksgiving food donated by a church.
While the celebration remained peaceful there, an amplified version of a family Thanksgiving squabble erupted in New York when police ordered a halt to drumming by protesters at an otherwise traditional holiday meal.
About 500 protesters were eating donated turkey and trimmings in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park when police told a drummer to stop playing. About 200 protesters surrounded about 30 officers and began shouting.
"Why don't you stop being cops for Thanksgiving?" yelled one protester. "Why don't you arrest the drummers in the Thanksgiving parade?" shouted another.
A van arrived with more officers, but they stayed back as protesters decided to call off the drumming and return to the food. Tensions have run high at the park since campers were evicted 11 days ago.
Restaurants and individual donors prepared more than 3,000 meals for the gathering at Zuccotti. Haywood Carey, 28, helped serve the meals and said the Thanksgiving celebration was a sign of Americans' shared values.
"The things that divide are much less than the things that bind us together," he said.
In San Diego, four Occupy protesters were arrested in the early hours of Thursday at an encampment at the city's Civic Center Plaza. Police said three were taken into custody for sleeping overnight in public and the fourth for spitting at an officer.
In Los Angeles, where more than 480 tents have been erected on the lawns of City Hall, activist Teri Adaju, 46, said she typically serves dinner to homeless people on Thanksgiving and knows many at the Los Angeles encampment have no home.
In Las Vegas, protesters planned a potluck meal – to which each participant contributes a dish – at their campsite near the University of Nevada.
Trisha Carr, 35, spent her holiday at the Occupy encampment at City Hall in Philadelphia. She has been out of work for more than two years and lost her car and home. She has been living in an Occupy tent for two weeks. "Some days are harder than others," she said.
Demonstrators say they are protesting against corporate greed and the concentration of wealth in the upper 1 percent of the US population.
In San Francisco, 400 occupiers at a plaza in the financial district were served traditional Thanksgiving food donated by a church.
While the celebration remained peaceful there, an amplified version of a family Thanksgiving squabble erupted in New York when police ordered a halt to drumming by protesters at an otherwise traditional holiday meal.
About 500 protesters were eating donated turkey and trimmings in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park when police told a drummer to stop playing. About 200 protesters surrounded about 30 officers and began shouting.
"Why don't you stop being cops for Thanksgiving?" yelled one protester. "Why don't you arrest the drummers in the Thanksgiving parade?" shouted another.
A van arrived with more officers, but they stayed back as protesters decided to call off the drumming and return to the food. Tensions have run high at the park since campers were evicted 11 days ago.
Restaurants and individual donors prepared more than 3,000 meals for the gathering at Zuccotti. Haywood Carey, 28, helped serve the meals and said the Thanksgiving celebration was a sign of Americans' shared values.
"The things that divide are much less than the things that bind us together," he said.
In San Diego, four Occupy protesters were arrested in the early hours of Thursday at an encampment at the city's Civic Center Plaza. Police said three were taken into custody for sleeping overnight in public and the fourth for spitting at an officer.
In Los Angeles, where more than 480 tents have been erected on the lawns of City Hall, activist Teri Adaju, 46, said she typically serves dinner to homeless people on Thanksgiving and knows many at the Los Angeles encampment have no home.
In Las Vegas, protesters planned a potluck meal – to which each participant contributes a dish – at their campsite near the University of Nevada.
Trisha Carr, 35, spent her holiday at the Occupy encampment at City Hall in Philadelphia. She has been out of work for more than two years and lost her car and home. She has been living in an Occupy tent for two weeks. "Some days are harder than others," she said.
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