Occupy Wall Street movements from across the Southeast will meet this weekend for a gathering north of Gainesville.
The Southeastern Regional Convergence of Occupations, hosted by Occupy Gainesville, will offer workshops and group talks on social issues during its three-day run starting Friday.
Coinciding near the six-month anniversary of the Occupy Gainesville movement, the event aims to build a network of activists from the Caribbean to the Southeastern U.S., according to the event website.
The event, which will be held outside Brooker, is free and open to the public. Registration is available online.
The conference comes soon after scores of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested when Zuccotti Park was cleared out this weekend.
Josh Goldsmith, a 19-year-old UF political science freshman, said the meeting will not help solve the problems the group is fighting against.
“If they think holding a mass conference of people complaining how everything is somebody else’s fault is beneficial, all the more power to them,” he said. “The Occupy Movement is in its dying days. Its 15 minutes of fame are up.”
Occupy supporter Annette Gilley, 58, of Waldo, talks with activists in Bo Diddley Community Plaza on Wednesday afternoon during the Union Street Farmers Market. Supporters have occupied the downtown plaza since Oct. 12.
