Yes! Weekly spends a week with Occupy Greensboro. Here’s what jumped put at me (my emphasis):
Zack Sadeq, who has actively participated since the first meeting and has been camped out all week….
Sadeq, who is from Greensboro, quit his job at Papa John’s after six years this summer and is taking a basic math class, paying out of his own pocket. For him, much of what the occupy movement is about is capitalism.
“I think that creating demands is completely necessary,” Sadeq said, “but we have to be careful about what kind of demands we make and think about if they really challenge the systems that oppress us.”
Seems to be a sense of exasperation that Mr. Sadeq has to pay for his basic math class out of his own pocket.* Hence the general attitude of the Occupy crowd and the sympathetic media —- that we’re all owed something.
But here’s the bigger question —after six years of delivering pizzas —- which involves handling money and making change —why is Mr. Sadeq now taking a basic math class?
*Not that I can’t semi-relate to Mr. Sadeq’s predicament. My last college class was Math 113 —don’t ask —- and I had to go back another semester to take it. Damned if Dad the Liberal was paying for that.
