Young People Returning Home from Occupy Wall Street Find Struggles, Challenges

[Casino67]

5440Fight.com:


By Rivka Solomon Gonzales-Aoki

(AP) – Ryan Sulzman walks alone through the woods behind his parents’ home in Binghamton, New York. It’s one of the few things that gives his troubled soul peace these days. “I like hearing the birds sing…and the crickets” he confides. “It takes my mind off the horrors I witnessed. These are…these are things I still find it hard to talk about.”

Like many young people who volunteered to join the nationwide Occupy movement, Ryan has been having a hard time being back in “the world.” “When we were ‘in country,’ we became used to a certain routine. The free meals served in the camp soup kitchen, the free wi-fi, the rhythmic sounds of the drum circles, and the crackheads who’d let you buy food with their EBT cards in exchange for cash for drugs. I’d give them, like, $10 and they’d let me buy $40 in food. It was a sweet deal.”

But it wasn’t long before Ryan, and so many young people of his generation who had volunteered to do their duty, saw the ugly side of human nature. “The day they cleared out our camp, this one cop…he…he yelled at me. ‘Move! Move! Move!’ He had a bullhorn…the sounds still haunt my nightmares. And then…” Ryan’s voice trails off, as tears well up in his eyes, “then he grabbed my Tumi duffle bag and literally, like, pushed it into my arms. I totally could have been knocked over it I wasn’t wearing my Urban Outfitters boots.”

[clearvision]

Just so no one misses the bottom line. Satire tag.

[Rheo]

That was funny.

[SrWoodchuck]

After reading that poor boy's horror, the tears literally rolled down my cheeks..............while laughing.

[Casino67]

After reading that poor boy's horror, the tears literally rolled down my cheeks..............while laughing.

 

 

LOL. That is why I suggested a tissue.

[Argyle58]

I've never heard of this website, but I have to wonder if any of those "Occupiers" would understand the historic significance of the name.

[Valin]

or 31-year old OWS vet Jacob Berman, the wounds run especially deep. “My parents didn’t dust my Star Wars collectibles, not even once. Do you know what two months of dust build-up can do to a Limited-Edition Deluxe 30th-Anniversary 12” Boba Fett in the Great Pit of Carkoon Collectible Action Figure? I don’t even know if I can list it as mint on Ebay anymore.”

 

 

I think I just hurt myself!!!

[Valin]

I've never heard of this website, but I have to wonder if any of those "Occupiers" would understand the historic significance of the name.

 

 

Given that there is so much they don't understand I doubt they would.

[Evad]

I've never heard of this website, but I have to wonder if any of those "Occupiers" would understand the historic significance of the name.

 

 

Given that there is so much they don't understand I doubt they would.

Had to be The Onion