(Photos by Richard Grayson)
(Posters by Occupy Together)
New York, Oct. 2, 2011 -
Early this morning, Pinal County Greens Co-Chair Richard Grayson arrived at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan's Financial District to lend the Pinal County Greens' support to Occupy Wall Street, the protest now going into its third week.
"The Pinal Couty Greens wanted to express their solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and to make a small contribution to their effort. Their fight is our fight," said Grayson, the 2010 Green Party candidate for Congress in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District. "We also want to see a society where Americans other than those in the top one percent of income and wealth also have an opportunity to have our voices heard."
The Pinal County Greens are members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County, America's second-fastest-growing county according to the 2010 census.
The Pinal County Greens endorse this statement by Mark Dunlea, co-founder of the Green Party of New York State:
The Democratic Party does not speak for the Occupy Wall Street, Occupy America, and October 2011 protesters. No political party speaks for the protesters, not even the Green Party.
The protesters speak for themselves. The Green Party has endorsed and joined the demos because we share the same frustration and anger as the other protesters. Greens are there because we bring alternative ideas like the Green New Deal.
And we're there because we encourage the 99 percent -- We The People -- to organize, end pro-corporate two-party rule, and replace the politicians in public office who enabled Wall Street's theft of America's future.
This can only happen through an independent alliance with the same diversity we're seeing at the protests: labor activists, Greens, progressives, anarchists, libertarians, nonvoters, disappointed Democrats and Republicans, and all others who want real change.
