Occupy Denver adds a youthful twist

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Occupy Denver adds a youthful twist
By Weston Gentry

Occupy Denver protesters added a different wrinkle to their weekly
Saturday protest ritual today by grooming a younger generation for
civil disobedience.

Today's march, dubbed by organizers as the "Children's March,"
featured a handful of kids toting bullhorns. Many weren't shy about
exercising their "mic-check" privileges.

At the prompting of their parents, a half dozen pre-teens spoke out
against corporate greed and encouraged the crowd to put their money in
credit unions.

But some kids who stood before the crowd that gathered on the 16th
Street Mall in front of the World Trade Center around noon were a
little too shy to say anything at all.

Jason Metter, 40, let his 6-year-old daughter Mira take a turn at the
mic, ... (cont)

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