I had no idea there was an Occupy Dallas group until I was just driving around downtown today. I figured Dallas Texas would be too square, but I always forget just what a hippie town this is. And what hippies they were.
They're camped out (literally) on a park/cemetery right between the city hall and the Dallas Morning News offices. It's a beautiful park really, but there's never much traffic there, not even on our big UT/OU Game weekend. Usually, public rallies are over at the JFK memorial since there's plenty of exposure, but it's a miserable spit of shadeless hillside that smells like a toilet (since that's what the bums use it for).
The "crowd" was about fifty people or so, thirty of them at any one time standing on the main corner with signs. About one-third each college students (or the same age), middle aged hippies, and old genuine hippies. Not a lot of shirts. I saw two Guy Fawkes masks, one a college girl and the other a middle-aged Hispanic man in a business suit. They get them from Partytown apparently.
I stopped by for a minute to chat them up, but it was a pretty listless bunch. I like hippies and all, I'm just not a sign guy, so I didn't stick around. I'll probably go back tomorrow and Monday to see if there's any more activity to make it worth the effort. I notice they're not even on that 15october map. Maybe I'll send some emails, and walk down to the newspaper office, try to drum up some attention for them.
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