Several dozen youth delegates and environmental activists, along with country representatives from small island nations, sang the traditional South African miners' song "Shosholoza" and waved signs saying that any delay in action on climate change would mean death in Africa.
Sitting outside the office of House Speaker John Boehner, John Reat from Ohio told CNN, "I've been unemployed for 24 months, and that's why I'm here. And we're not leaving until we talk to the speaker, or they close the building, whichever comes first."
"Instead of hunkering down with five or six close individuals in your home, people you probably see all of the time anyway, you are celebrating Thanksgiving with many different families — kind of like the original Thanksgiving," Occupy Las Vegas organizer Sebring Frehner told the AP.
This week the protesters will occupy parking lots rather than campuses and Zuccotti Park, in hopes of pushing consumers away from shopping malls and big chains, towards local, small businesses.
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