For ABN Amro, Abacus was just another product on the Wall Street assembly line.
She wasn't a high-level decision maker at her bank — she was just one of thousands of young professionals, well paid but not obscenely so, making the financial equivalent of widgets on the convoluted Wall Street assembly line.
Peace to the Streets assemblies became smaller gatherings, the Peace Camp was violently evacuated by Bogotá's riot police seven days after the new accord was signed, and with it the enthusiasm for peace has dwindled.
As there are now (remember the Occupy Wall Street general assemblies?).
But for #CancelColbert, Twitchy became as earnest as an Occupy Wall Street general assembly, curating Tweets about racist "othering," transphobia, fat shaming, cis privilege, bullying, and triggering.
As one must-see video explainer about the democratic consensus-building process says, the Occupy Wall Street general assembly is meant to be an end in itself, not merely a means to something different.
The statements of several of the arrestees who spoke at Sunday's Occupy Wall Street General Assembly seem to burnish the police's version of events, at least as they pertain to the demonstrators who took the lead in marching onto the roadway of the bridge.
Even before the sun came up, clumps of 20 or 30 demonstrators were moving through the streets toward assembly points at Farragut Park and Washington Circle.
The grievous toll alone brought many to tears again, from the large and carefully choreographed events involving thousands at ground zero to small and sometimes spontaneous observances on street corners, school assemblies, firehouses and town squares.
