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Posted November 2, 2011
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Phoenix, Arizona
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Portraits of a Protest: Phoenix, AZ
Derek Jones, 18 | Unemployed
"I'm here because of the police mistreating our people and also because the banks are taking all of our money and because we all should be created equal."
Liz Hourican, 40 | Underemployed - volunteering
"The level of economic injustice needs my full time attention. We need less civil obedience and more nonviolent activism to promote real change."
Justin Wentz, 27 | Self employed
"I'm tired of people not showing account of one's behavior."
Toni Forcine, 79 | Retired
"To help people without ID'\s to obtain them so they can vote in 2012. If corporations are people, treat them like people. Socialism in my country is for the rich."
Jorge Mendez, 47 & Betsy Shler, 50 | Self employed
"We are protesting the dangerous under-regulation of Wall Street that led to the current recession. Hand in hand with this is the destructive rise of corporate power ushered in with the Supreme Court ruling that corporations are people and money is speech. We wish to restore democracy for the people!"
David G. Poff, 57, Unemployed
"Economic repression is a crime against humanity. When self-interest and morality become one and the same, human progress ends."
Jenn Delgado, 40 | Employed
"I'm here because I'm happy to see the American people finally gathering together to stand up for their beliefs. As for me personally, I'm tired of seeing corporations and the wealthiest individuals being catered to in this country while the rest of us wonder what our future is going to look like and how we are going to survive."
Jessica Jauregui, 20 | Employed
"I am here to tell the 1% to hear our voices and get the homeless their houses back."
Paul Foster Blake, 52 | Disabled and unemployed
"The government is perpetrators who protect the Wall Street greed in the capitalistic economic system in America. I am working on five federal lawsuits in the U.S. District Court against Police departments, Sheriffs departments and mental health agencies in Navajo, Maricopa and Coconino counties. I am a jail house lawyer and have a degree in Construction Management from the School of Engineering at ASU."
Dale McKay, 58 | Employed
"Stop corporate welfare, stop private campaign funds for politicians."
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