No. 818 “D”, 2012

File — Box: 75, Folder: 12

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This anonymous interviewee, a Saint Louis native who was the first person arrested the night the police took down the tents at Occupy Salt Lake, describes her work in the Occupy movement, especially in the kitchen, conflicts in the movement and what she sees as its deep and abiding flaws, the experience of being arrested, and finishes with an exploration of the impacts of being arrested on the middle-class white people she sees as the primary members of Occupy SLC versus those less privileged. She feels that the conservative political and social climate in Salt Lake City along with an overemphasis on small individual issues compromised the movement, but likes that it brought together people who wanted to actually change what she sees as a deeply flawed system. She discusses the kitchen operations, the taking down of the tents, and also what she sees as the disenfranchisement of the homeless, marginalized denizens of Pioneer Park by the Occupiers.
Project: Occupy Salt Lake oral history project.
Interviewer: Erin Halcomb

Dates

2012

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.