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Occupy Long Beach Heads Sunday to Belmont Shore

As a new AP poll shows 37% of Americans support the Wall Street-based protests and 58% are sick of unresolved political bickering, Occupy Long Beach promotes Nov. 5 to withdraw bank funds or transfer them en masse.

Occupy Long Beach, which has turned out at Lincoln Park at the Main Library downtown for several days, plans to continue marches around the city, one in Belmont Shore Sunday at 2 p.m. on Second Street. The following videos (Part 1 and Part 2 )are YouTubes Occupy Long Beach posted at Belmont Shore-Naples Patch's Facebook page. Also posted there are Part 3 and Part 4.

It is a glimpse of what the group has shared from various staged protests, by its own choice. No one leader or person is speaking for this group, but one member has been videotaping and posting clips, Jai Dion Hudson, a Golden West College student and Huntington Beach resident.

A wide range of media has portrayed various Occupy groups  very differently--Fox has largely trashed or mocked the Occupy Wall Street movement, despite national commentators noting that "the 99%" and "class warfare" are now terms mainstream media is now tossing around unlike six weeks ago. CNN had a former Secretary of State supporting the movement.  The groups are quite different based on geography. Occupy Los Angeles is older and larger than Long Beach. Occupy Orange County is only days old. Occupy Long Beach began a few weeks ago at Bluff Park, grew from a few dozen to more than 100 in a week with a middle-class foreclosed-upon parent presence. Since it has moved downtown and been out every night, the wide cross section of types has appeared to narrow down to more college-age protestors, and a few academics (at least one is an original day one member and our Patch neighbor in the Shore).

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A good discussion went on among seemingly more likely supporters in response to a blog post, "I'd Rather Not Occupy Long Beach," by blogger Jesus Hernandez at social media site 562CityLife. It was followed by another, more sympathetic OLB supporter/blogger Molly Marina Haupt, then The Man, and some fair questions back and forth.


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