Goethe Girl on Day 12 Occupy Wall Street September 28 2011 Shankbone 33

    Wednesday, Day 12, September 28 and Wall Street remains barricaded to the public and tourists alike. Occupy Wall Street has effectively shut down the main strip of the financial district. Photos from Zuccotti Park, September 28 2011.

    David Shankbone
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    The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project

    Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
    Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
    Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
    Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
    Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
    Day 9 September 25 Photos
    Day 12 September 28 Photos
    Day 14 September 30 Photos
    Day 16 October 2 Photos
    Day 17 October 3 Photos
    Day 20 October 5 Photos
    Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
    Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
    Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
    Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
    Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
    Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
    Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
    Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
    Day 50 November 5
    Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
    Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
    Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
    Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti

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    Comments and faves

    1. ★

      HELLO CHICAGO, Daniel Iván, zakgreene, conceptual, and 39 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. chgo60628 [deleted] (20 months ago | reply)

      Wow. Hot

    3. david_shankbone (20 months ago | reply)

      Leftwing activists are sexy.

    4. chgo60628 [deleted] (20 months ago | reply)

      Didn't Goethe say that too?

    5. david_shankbone (20 months ago | reply)

      If he didn't say it, I bet he thought it.

    6. stanleyrogouski (20 months ago | reply)

      Goethe was exactly 30 when the French Revolution broke out.

      The "left wing" female activists of his day would have been the women who led the "Women's March on Versailles" or the women who participated in the storming of The Tuileries on the Tenth of August, 1792.

      They were usually rough lower class women from the slums of Paris who scared the ever living shit out of upper class, court artists like Herr Goethe. That Charles Dickens put so much energy into demonizing these women in the form of Madame Defarge testifies to just how terrified the privileged classes were of the left wing women of their day.

      Oh yeah, good photo.

    7. david_shankbone (20 months ago | reply)

      Stanley, sounds like a lot of people would have been afraid of leftwing women back in 1792! Thanks for the compliment.

    8. tilly41 (20 months ago | reply)

      Right!

      Write some drivel and get laid.

      Zoltan Newberry

    9. farlane (20 months ago | reply)

      Hey there - I blogged your photo to #occupywallstreet on my blog.

      Great photos - thanks for your work on this!

    10. david_shankbone (20 months ago | reply)

      Thanks Farlane!

    11. Stu Friedman (20 months ago | reply)

      Does anyone find it ironic that, according to Wikipedia....

      In politics Goethe was conservative. At the time of the French Revolution, he thought the enthusiasm of the students and professors to be a perversion of their energy and remained skeptical of the ability of the masses to govern.[6

    12. david_shankbone (20 months ago | reply)

      Interesting observation in the context of the French Revolution. Otherwise no, because it would be like saying conservatives have nothing to learn from John Locke, Voltaire or Thomas Hobbes, all liberals.

    13. stanleyrogouski (20 months ago | reply)

      Goethe was a conservative but he still reported objectively on the ass kicking the French revolutionary army administered to the Prussians at Valmy. He was "embedded" with the royalist armies. One can only imagine the "fair and balanced" way one of today's conservatives would have described it.

    14. drewwaters (20 months ago | reply)

      We'd like to add your photo to the Group
      Occupy Wall Street Photo Project
      www.flickr.com/groups/owsphotoproject/
      Images added to this group are being considered for a book publication.
      Please add to the group if interested for inclusion.
      Thanks,
      DW
      Project Coordinator

    15. This photo was invited and added to the rED cLOTHES group.

    16. Monkey_Harris (19 months ago | reply)

      Great shot.

    17. DoctorLongshore (19 months ago | reply)

      I know this chick or at least used to. Tia Foster look her up on facebook.

    18. This photo was invited and added to the Best in America group.

    19. Alexandre Hamada Possi (4 months ago | reply)

      But if it's possible to be enslaved and still feel free, how can one be sure of one's freedom?

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