Forcing a child to sit in the cold weather and be among the dirt , crime, and low life of society is child abuse. It's not a lesson as these children of former Hippies think.  I am sure the child didn't write "My Momma aint on welfare But your Bank is" People if you bank at that bank and you have an account at that bank or if you do transactions at that bank then you take welfare MONEY! If you cash a check YOU ARE USING THE FEDERAL RESERVE. If your bank account is insured You are INSURED by the FEDERAL RESERVE. So what does this lead us to and what lesson?  Demand gold nuggets and silver Nuggets Wait you can't spend that. No store has the weight system anymore. Then stuff the money in your mattress and pray you wont have a fire or be robbed. 

While you stand in line at the the unempolyment you maybe standing in line with OH NO someone who was laid off from Payne Weber or JPMorgan or Golden Sacks for down sizing.


Why don't you demonstrators worry about how filthy and dirty it is to sit on the sidewalk where your co- demonstrators just urinated and defecated . Or were dogs pooped and Peeped who had hook worms.


Wait I see people selling Tshirts in the crowd, That is capitalism! Did they share their wealth with you?  

For Children’s Sake, Taking to the Streets

Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

Mark Reid and Rebecca Reid came to Occupy Wall Street from Exeter, Pa., with their three children.

By HELAINE OLEN

Published: October 26, 2011

MALKA LUBELSKI marched for economic justice last Sunday dressed as Minnie Mouse. 

In a pink costume with white polka dots and black mouse ears, she circled Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street protests, carrying a homemade sign that read, “From the very young, the very old, we are the 99%.”
It would have been one more bit of street theater, except that Malka is 4, an age when girls are generally thought to be more interested in Disney characters than protest marches.
While her father, Abraham Lubelski, publisher of NY Arts magazine, talked about his decision to take Malka and her 1 1/2-year-old sister, Josepha, to the scene so they could “see real human needs,” Malka concerned herself with the more mundane needs of her baby sister, who had been sitting in her stroller munching contentedly on a vanilla ice cream cone till the ice cream tumbled onto her sweater.
“Dad,” Malka interrupted, pointing to her younger sibling.
And so it goes in the second month of Occupy Wall Street, where children are becoming an increasing presence as parents try to seize a “teachable moment” to enlighten them on matters ranging from income inequality to the right to protest.
The park’s makeshift collective library has a children’s section, complete with a copy of “Harry Potter,” Beverly Cleary titles and Meg Cabot’s “Holiday Princess.” A group called Parents for Occupy Wall Street, headed by Kirby Desmarais, a Brooklyn mother and record label owner, even organized a sleepover at the park for more than 80 parents and children on a recent weekend night. (The families had to be moved at dawn to make way for new police lines and barricades.) Spin-off parent groups have sprung up in other cities like Denver and Seattle.
But most mothers and fathers bring their children on their own. Some recall marching in antiwar protests in the 1960s and ’70s, and say they would like to show their children what it means to be part of a large movement advocating for social change. Those with babies and toddlers admit that the children are unlikely to remember anything of their time at Zuccotti Park, but that they believe the children will one day appreciate that they were present.
“When he’s older, I want him to know we cared enough to bring him down,” said David McClelland, a resident of Clinton Hill in Brooklyn who came with his son, Franklin, 2.
For Stephen Belber, a screenwriter who is adapting Dana Spiotta’s novel of 1970s left-wing activism gone awry, “Eat the Document,” Occupy Wall Street presents a unique opportunity to discuss his work with his two children, Clementine, 7, and Tobi, 11.
Clementine had questions. “Are the people who are sleeping here poor?” she asked, pointing to the tents and sleeping bags.
“They choose to be here,” her father replied. “They are upset because there are a few rich people and so many more poor people.”
Occupy Wall Street is hardly the first protest movement to include children. They were often present at civil rights marches, and more recently, boys and girls (complete with placards) have become a familiar presence at Tea Party events. There were children at Tahrir Square in Cairo, as well as at many other events that marked the Arab Spring.
A number of New York’s independent progressive-minded schools, like St. Ann’s in Brooklyn Heights, are encouraging their older students to visit Zuccotti Park. The Calhoun School on the Upper West Side has taken it a step further, with students from the upper school’s photography and journalism classes assigned projects that require a visit to the Occupy Wall Street encampment.
“We see the city as a classroom, and we don’t shy away from introducing our children to things that are controversial,” said Steve Nelson, the head of the school. “We want them to learn to examine and think critically about what is going on around them in the world.”
Child therapists are divided on the appropriateness of taking children to the protest. Susan Bartell, a psychologist who writes for Babycenter.com, advises caution for the parents of children younger than 14. “There are kids who can go to a shelter at Thanksgiving and help serve a meal,” she said, “but there are kids who are traumatized by it.”
Madeline Levine, a psychologist, author of “The Price of Privilege” and a prominent critic of upper-middle-class child-rearing practices, disagreed. “We’ve done a lousy job of teaching civics in the country,” she said. “Everything is cast in terms of what it does for your résumé. There is something vital in being part of a group or a community.
“There isn’t a family that isn’t impacted by what’s going on right now,” she added.
That is true of Samantha Cassidy, a photo editor and knitwear designer from Brooklyn, who came to Zuccotti Park with her son, Cooper, 7. “I recently got laid off, that’s why I’m here,” she said.
Others said that they are simply so passionate about the cause, they’ve brought their children too many times to count. “I liken it to forcing them to go to church,” said Rivka Gewirtz Little, an organizer of the 99 Percent School, another group for parents who support the Occupy Wall Street movement. “It’s important for them to learn your beliefs.”
Ms. Little’s daughters, ages 6 and 12, have been to Zuccotti Park so often that the protesters’ communication system is now a factor in their playtime at home.
“We had a bunch of kids in the house the other day and no one was listening to each other,” Ms. Little said, “and my older daughter yelled, ‘Mike check!’ ”