Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Brooklyn's Latest Occupy: Occupy Kensington
Posted by Henry Stewart on Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:59 AM
The group was founded by Eleanor Rodgers, a receptionist and mother of two; she told the Patch that the meeting brought together a healthy demographic mix. "There were four older people who have lived in the neighborhood for 15 to 20 years—community-type people—and six people who were 30-and-under with no kids, who had done stuff with Occupy Wall Street," she said. "So it’s bringing together these two groups of people who have this political engagement but from different perspectives."
Neighborhood-specific protest groups have sprouted up across the borough, including Occupy Bushwick and Occupy Sunset Park.
For more information about Occupy Kensington, contact Rodgers at rodgers_eleanor@hotmail.com.
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Henry Stewart
Henry Stewart is the Culture Editor at The L Magazine and some kind of editor at Brooklyn Magazine. He has always lived in Brooklyn.
