In the Fall of 2011 protestors took the streets of Lower Manhattan.
Excerpted here is a selection of the signs they held.

“STOP ROBBING THE MIDDLE CLASS TO PAY THE RICH”
“THE FANCY CANNOT CHEAT”
“GREED IS AN ADDICTION”
“MONEY IS TALKING TO ITSELF AGAIN”
“PEOPLE ASK WHAT A PROTEST IS ABOUT”
“MONEY SWALLOWS THEM BACK IN”
“EAT THE RICH”
“THIS IS TAKING FOREVER”
“WE CAN SEE FOREVER”
“THE SKY IS NOT THE SKY AT ALL”
“AN ACTIVITY THAT GENERATES NO PROFIT”
“LIFE ONLY GOES SO FAR”
“I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT DEATH”
“WAKE UP”
“I MAKE SENSE”
“THEY LIED”
“WE NOTE THE INVISIBLE WEB”
“YOUR DAD TOLD ME TO TELL YOU TO LOOK AT YOURSELF”
“ON ITS WAY FROM NOTHING TO NOWHERE”
“OUR TENDENCY TO POINT”
“SO ARE WE REALLY MOVING”

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D.W. Lichtenberg is the author of The Ancient Book of Hip, an exploration of the phenomenon of hip. He is a writer, a filmmaker, a caffeine addict, an obsessive cleaner. Read more of his work and others’ in HFR 1.1. Some of the language from “The Signs of Occupy Wall Street” is appropriated from Rae Armantrout.