A sign from the Occupy Denver camp.
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The Occupy movement has recently spread its reaches all the way to the copper-laden rooftops of the University of Denver campus.
Occupy DU, which started this past January, held a student and faculty panel Thursday, March 29 in Driscoll Underground to incentivize support and discuss the future of the organization.
The fact that the panel was attended by a combination of students and professors totaling only about 20, seemed to beg the question, why doesn’t Occupy DU work in conjunction with Occupy Denver? The two organizations have relatively the same goals and are set up less than 10 miles from one another.
Robert James, 19, of Denver, CO and current resident of the Occupy Denver camp stated that he and others at the camp would be glad to assist Occupy DU, either by inviting them to see the camp downtown or speaking at another on-campus panel.
“I know people down here right now who are willing to speak all day about this,” said James.
James has been living at the Occupy camp for nine months and has spent time at Occupy sites in Casper, Cheyenne and San Francisco, but says that Occupy Denver is the camp that has caught his eye the most.
“These people are not just laying around out here because they want or need to. But, they are willing to get arrested for their rights, for their reasons and for their entitlement as a human being.”
James also said that Occupy Denver’s most immediate goal is to ensure that the proposed urban camping ban is not signed into law.
“It would destroy our movement. Period.”
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