Including this freak of nature:
We talked to nearly every protester who showed up at the Calvin Klein fashion show today, in Occupy Wall Street’s attempt to occupy fashion week on its last day. Talking to all of them wasn’t too difficult, since only five or six made it. The plan had been to march up to 39th Street, where the show was taking place, and try to get attendees to paint their faces red for the 2 p.m. show. If that didn’t work out, they’d try to shut down the second 3 p.m. show. Calvin Klein took notice and heightened security, and the media was ready and watching. As you’ll see, things didn’t exactly go according to plan.
When we got here around 2 p.m., guests for the first show were being shuffled inside. These two guys were the only protesters there. One was wearing face paint, which was supposed to represent pepper spray. The man on the left, Felix Rivera-Pitre, told us that most people didn’t make it because of the weather, or so he thought.
“A lot of us are living in squats that do not even have heat or water. The weather has kept a lot of people. We’re having a hard time as it is and I am not going to hold it against nobody,” he told us.