Brigette DePape, iconic images, and Occupy

While establishment journalists muck around in muddy waders searching for a clue about the Occupy movement, condescending in their attitudes because they do not understand, I look back on perhaps a bit of the genesis of our Canadian versions of Occupy.

Brigette DePape.

Like the Occupy movement itself, Brigette’s action and the resulting images, may have passed over the heads of our journalistic class, but anyone who wondered what Ms. DePape was doing that day, alone with her handmade sign, look no further than the thousands of like-minded individuals having their say these days on a different but perhaps more level stage.

Michael Moore got it. We got it. Despite enforced removals from the Senate or at various Occupy sites around the country, we are not going away.

Thank you Brigette for standing up for what you believe in and firing the opening salvo in a new populist uprising. You’ve inspired an entire movement to take back our government and persuade Canadians to work for a better, more equitable playing field.

Cross posted at Let Freedom Rain