💬 Off-Topic Ahuviya in the News! Old Occupy Philly Article

[KingQueen]

Stumbled across an article featuring an interview with our favorite Communist. I searched the forums and didn't find it posted.

Full Article - http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-02/business/30235293_1_income-growth-planning-meeting-protest
Archive - http://archive.is/ozxl4

"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement seeks a Philadelphia foothold
Posted: October 02, 2011

Ahuviya Harel wore a Soviet flag Thursday to the first Occupy Philadelphia planning meeting, one of many efforts nationwide aiming to echo New York's two-week-old Occupy Wall Street protest against the "greed and corruption" of the richest 1 percent of Americans.

Communism is "my ultimate goal, in many years, for this country," Harel said, glancing down at the flag, because "the rich keep getting richer, and everybody else is just struggling to get by or getting poorer."

Later, after the meeting of about 200 in the soaring, ornate sanctuary of the Arch Street United Methodist Church, Shawn McMonigle, who overheard Harel's comment, urged:

"Don't skew us with that communist dude."

 

[DavidFerrie]

"Don't skew us with that communist dude."

This needs to become a rotating title.

 

[Fulda's Gap]

Ahuviya Harel. The Other White Communist.

 

[KingQueen]

Also, some video footage from the protests, with our esteemed leader.

"Speaking out about trans harassment by the Phila PD"

I used to wonder why nobody was taking the protests seriously.

Remember that this was the time he was arrested with some protesters for blocking roads, shortly before coming to the Left Coast.

EDIT: This is on the AustralatinaArchive already, I didn't search hard enough, shame on me.

 

[AnOminous]

I used to wonder why nobody was taking the protests seriously.

It was a combination of the influx of malignant idiots like Phil and the inability or unwillingness of the organizers (as well as the lack of organizers) that allowed them to become the face of the movement when they should have been, at most, its pimpled ass.