OWS: “We are the proletariat!”

Here is more video from the #S17 protest on the anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall St a year ago September 17.

This group of marchers was made up of mostly Hispanic self-identified Maoists. One was was wearing a pro-Palestinian scarf with little Che buttons on it. He noted that most of the pro-Palestinian people with whom he was familiar were also pro-communist.

Although it is not always reported on, many in Occupy are pro-Palestinian, anti-US involvement in the Middle East.

As they chanted, they seemed oblivious to the concept that most Americans would have no idea what they were talking about, and would in fact step back from such classist terminology. It is not clear that these people, at best in their twenties, really understood what happened the last time marching groups waved around that little red book, the flags and millions died.

Video by Billy O’Keefe @DefendWallSt