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Ashley – Age 22

  By Fuzzytek | November 30, 2011 - 6:26 pm | 99 Interviews
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Name Ashley
Age 22

1. Where do you come from? Currently I live in Abilene Texas, But I was born and raised in Michigan. Originally from the Upper Peninsula, in the small town of Hancock. My mother moved me down state so that my sister and I would be able to have a better life than she did, first by bettering our educations, and by her making more than min. wage downstate. We all know how well that has turned out in the last few years….

2. How did you find out about the Occupy movement? One of my friends on FB

3. What brings you here? I miss home every single day that I live in Texas, and I despise what Texans and the rest of the country thinks of my home state…..Every single chance I get I tell people I am from Michigan, specifically Metro Detroit and I AM PROUD of it.

4. What does the Occupy movement mean to you? That now maybe the rest of the country will start believing that Michigan can make the change and we are strong willed and fighters that are not going to give up on ourselves.

5. What is the biggest problem that your community faces? Where my parents live it is the economy, the price of the homes dropped so much that they cannot refinance their home in order to afford monthly payments, but they are able to make enough according to the banks not to refinance, and because they are not behind yet they cannot get help from the government either. So what choice do they have like most of those facing finical issues right now, let your payments get behind…then get help from the government on your house payments.

6. What do you think or hope this movement will accomplish? To ensure that the Metro Detroit area and Michigan will quit suffering and the 1% will take pay cuts and start giving back to their local communities to support those in need, and give those in the middle class the fighting chance they have all been hoping for, so they to do not end up in bankruptcy.

7. How do you think the media has portrayed the movement? I have not been able to see anything in the media other than what is posted on your site because of my location.

8. How would you like to get involved with Occupy Detroit? If there is any way I can help from Texas I would love to.

Something that I heard today that did make me proud on a better note, Michigan residences are the third highest in the nation of residences that stay in the state they were born, following behind Louisiana and Ohio.

99 Interviews

  By Evan | October 25, 2011 - 10:33 pm | 99 Interviews, Submissions
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Interview other occupiers, your neighbors, your co-workers, your family, and yourself!  We all have a story and we relate to the movement of the 99% in different ways. Use these questions as a starting point to help tell your story, or that of any 99 percenter. There are about 6.7 billion of us!

Submit the interview in typed words, video, and/or audio to occdetmedia@gmail.com. We’ll post them in this section on the site.

Name

Age

1. Where do you come from?

2. How did you find out about the Occupy movement?

3. What brings you here?

4. What does the Occupy movement mean to you?

5. What is the biggest problem that your community faces?

6. What do you think or hope this movement will accomplish?

7. How do you think the media has portrayed the movement?

8. How would you like to get involved with Occupy Detroit?