{"id":1384,"date":"2011-10-17T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/wctv-says-occupy-valdosta-made-no-consolidation-impossible-to-ignore.html"},"modified":"2011-10-17T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:34:54","slug":"wctv-says-occupy-valdosta-made-no-consolidation-impossible-to-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/wctv-says-occupy-valdosta-made-no-consolidation-impossible-to-ignore.html","title":{"rendered":"WCTV says Occupy Valdosta made No Consolidation impossible to ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"WCTV gets it right in most of the story:\n
\n\n<\/a>\nA familiar scene from the Big Apple reaches Southern Georgia. It’s called\n“Occupy Valdosta.” More than 100 protesters take to the streets to fight\ncorporate greed and social injustice.\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nGreg Gullberg wrote Friday for WCTV,\n\nOccupy Wall Street Comes To Valdosta<\/a>,\n

\nChanting before banks, monuments and courthouses, the rally reached its summit at the Chamber of Commerce.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nThere the crowd cried two familiar words: ‘No Consolidation’.\n

\nIn a demonstration designed to fight corporate greed and social inequality, the protest ultimately turned to the fate of the school systems and the children of Valdosta.\n

\n“My children go to city schools. I live in the county. I can’t vote. That’s not right,” said Susan Smith.\n<\/blockquote>\nWCTV’s low estimate of 100 who chanted “no consolidation” on\nthe Chamber’s doorstep is several times\n\n\n\n<\/a>\nthe number who showed up\nat the \nChamber-sponsored pro-consolidation Candidates Forum<\/a> a few days before.\n

\nSchool Consolidation is impossible to ignore at this point with the election just weeks away.\n<\/blockquote>\nActually, advanced voting starts today.\n

\nHere’s\n\nLAKE video of the No Consolidation chant at the Chamber:<\/a>\n

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