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Portland’s Occupiers express their holiday wishes

By JEFF INGLIS | December 7, 2011

Many people in the mainstream media are still running around asking “What does Occupy want?” And they’re dragging their zoned-out, tuned-out audiences along with them. It’s very simple: Occupy wants what Occupy wants. While the bloviators and opinionspouters yammer to themselves about their own misunderstandings, we here at the Phoenix used some of our time in the OccupyMaine camp in Lincoln Park to get really specific. Sure enough, everyone has a different answer. Sorry, technocrats: democracy can be messy.

Big John

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