[Occupymendocino] how-occupy-wall-street-got-religion

[Richard Karch]

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/442-occupy/15008-how-occupy-wall-street-got-religion


OCCUPY YEAR II
How Occupy Wall Street got religion

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/442-occupy/15008-how-occupy-wall-street-got-religion
by Nathan Schneider | December 20, 2012


(The Indypendent/Lynne Foster)
A year later, even as a resilient few continue their 24-hour vigil on the sidewalk outside Trinity, churches and Occupiers are having a very different kind of Advent season together. Finding room in churches is no longer a problem for the movement.
A year ago around this time, Occupy Wall Street was celebrating Advent — the season when Christians anticipate the birth of Jesus at Christmas. In front of Trinity Church, right at the top of Wall Street along Broadway, Occupiers set up a little model tent with the statuettes of a nativity scene inside: Mary, Joseph and the Christ child in a manger, surrounded by animals. In the back, an angel held a tiny cardboard sign with a verse from Luke’s Gospel: “There was no room for them in the inn.” The reason for these activists’ interest in the liturgical calendar, of course, was the movement’s ongoing effort to convince Trinity to start acting less like a real estate corporation and more like a church, and to let the movement use a vacant property that Trinity owns.

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