Occupy Bangor rally attracts 60 protesters

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By Andrew Neff, BDN Staff
Posted Oct. 12, 2011, at 3:33 p.m.
Last modified Oct. 12, 2011, at 4:52 p.m.
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BANGOR, Maine — They came, they occupied, and then they left.

About 60 people, most with homemade signs, assembled Wednesday in front of the Bank of America building on Exchange Street to protest what they view as corporate greed and excessive individual wealth, among other things, in an hourlong Occupy Bangor rally.

“My family is middle class, all my friends are middle class, and I think it’s unfair that this gap between rich and poor is still growing,” said Margaret Hoyt, a first-time protest attendee from St. George and 20-year-old junior environmental science and ecology major at the University of Maine. “There’s really no middle class anymore.” ...

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