If you’re still unclear as to why hundreds of your fellow Oaklanders are currently choosing to forgo proper shelter, running water, and you know, mattresses and such in favor of a tent city in Frank Ogawa Plaza, check out this video, in which Abby Martin of the citizen journalism group Media Roots conducts on-the-spot interviews with some of the movement’s participants:
As the Media Roots blog says, “The occupiers spread across all walks of life who share a common thread of feeling unrepresented in a failing system.”
(See here for all our previous Occupy Wall Street coverage.)
