Turn Off Fox Propaganda
The OccupyMN occupation of the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis is underway. Friday morning, at 9 a.m., set up began and by noon the action was underway. By 4:30 p.m., when I arrived, a diverse crowd occupied the government center plaza, renamed Freedom Plaza, with the majority being young, white adults.
When I was at the planning meeting last night, I was told by the organizers that they hoped that between 200 and 1000 people would gather in the plaza. It appeared to me that, after a full day of events, there were over 1000 people in the plaza and more joining every minute.
I talked with the man shown above. He told me that when Fox reported on the OccupyMN occupation they would do their report in the empty park on the other side of the government center and claim only a few people were at the rally. On the 9 pm report, Fox did just that. While hundreds remained in the Plaza, Fox broadcast from the nearly deserted park a block away.