I saw this while I was walking to the North Avenue MARTA station on my way out of town this weekend. My first thought was “there’s got to be an Apple store that I was unaware of, and these people are probably all camping in line with hopes to be the first people to get the iPad 3.”
And then I noticed the police tape around the groups of tents. And on a sunny day, as well as the tents that were vented open, one would have to be blind to not notice that pretty much all the tents were empty, devoid of any occupants at all. But the thing is, I still had no idea what these tents were here for in the first place.
I asked a security guard inside the station what the tents were about, and he gruffly responded “protesting.” Upon clarification of what these empty tents were protesting, I learned “corporate greed.” Oh, so this is Occupy Atlanta?