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The Hottest People at Occupy Wall Street

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By Megan McCarthy 10/11/11 12:33pm
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    Sunday afternoon, The Observer went down to Zuccotti Park to continue our series of portraits of protesters and other people drawn to the Financial District. Suddenly we noticed a trend: a preponderance of very attractive people in the crowd. Since Occupy Wall Street’s foes love to dismiss the protesters as “druggy” and unhygenic, we thought we would highlight a few of the glamorous citizens of the 99 percent. Qualifications included charisma, optimism, or a certain way of bantering with a Fox News producer, but basically we shot anyone we just couldn’t stop staring at. While we hope this gallery brings a new view to the people behind the Occupy Wall Street movement, we also hope it clears up any outstanding mysteries before the next round of Craigslist Missed Connections.

    (All photographs by Zenith Richards for The Observer)

  • Back Forward Zain, 30, Former Tattoo Artist

    Zain, 30, Former Tattoo Artist

    Days at the protest: Since a week ago last Thursday. What brings you here? Revolution. It's for the future of humanity. We need to change the way we treat people. Do you have a message?Wake up. Love each other. Hobbies:Art.

  • Back Forward Ashley Drzymala, 21, Student/Teacher's Assistant

    Ashley Drzymala, 21, Student/Teacher's Assistant

    Days at the protest: Every weekend since it began. What brings you here? Everything's really messed up. It shouldn't be like this for people who work so hard. Do you have a message? People should come. Sooner or later, they will have to join, so it's better to do it sooner. Hobbies: Fighting for reproductive justice. (Started the New Paltz Voice for Choice.)

  • Back Forward Saba Gray, 18, Fashion Intern

    Saba Gray, 18, Fashion Intern

    Days at the protest: First day. What brings you here? Good that our generation is starting to take a stand. Get out there and stick it to the man. Do you have a message? If you're able, bring food and supplies. Nothing's going to change unless we start making a change. Hobbies: Figure skating, sewing.

  • Back Forward Terron Wood, 25, Model

    Terron Wood, 25, Model

    Days at the protest: First day. What brings you here? It's awesome. What everyone else is here for: Democracy, freedom, and justice for all. Do you have a message? Be the change you wish to see in the world. Hobbies: I run a health blog (terronshealthadventures.blogspot.com) and music, art -- just about anything that's creative.

  • Back Forward Joanna Guerriere, 30, Life Coach

    Joanna Guerriere, 30, Life Coach

    Days at the protest: First day (visiting from Toronto, ON). What brings you here? There's so many people here willing to mobilize for something new. There's hunger, energy, awareness. Do you have a message? Contribute 20 percent to the common good. Hobbies: Shifting from scarcity to creativity and abundance. Redefining Profit. Tribal leadership. Coordinating for Toronto Global Shift.

  • Back Forward Bethiah Rosa, 23, 'a Bunch of Jobs'

    Bethiah Rosa, 23, 'a Bunch of Jobs'

    Days at the protest: First day - came to NYC for a belly dance workshop. What brings you here? Wanted to see it. Wanted to feel it. I think this is awesome. Do you have a message? Keep going, keep speaking. Hope this grows. Hobbies: Belly dance, hula hoop, teaching English in South Korea.

  • Back Forward Jesse LaGreca, 31, The Smartest Man on Wall Street

    Jesse LaGreca, 31, The Smartest Man on Wall Street

    Days at the protest: 19 days. What brings you here? [Editor's note: Please see our previous coverage of Jesse's reasons for participating in the Occupy Wall Street protest and he could be the Smartest Man on Wall Street.] Do you have a message? [Editor's note: Jesse had a pretty convincing message for a Fox News producer last week.] Hobbies: I'm a total nerd. Read a lot, write a lot, curious a lot. Also, sports: Giants, Yankees, Knicks, Islanders.

  • Back Forward Zora Bowman, 19, Student

    Zora Bowman, 19, Student

    Days at the protest: Three days. What brings you here? Pictures. And, of course, to support the movement too. Do you have a message? A lot of people want to spread the word. Hobbies: Photography and Human Rights. Studying abroad in India. Ballet.

  • Back Forward Cara Money, 22, Works for a Documentary Film Company

    Cara Money, 22, Works for a Documentary Film Company

    Days at the protest: First day. What brings you here? I wanted to be part of history being made -- or at least witness it. Do you have a message? No. Hobbies: Theater, bookstores, enjoying New York, anti-sex-trafficking work.

  • Back Priya "Warcry," Thirty-something, Filmmaker

    Priya "Warcry," Thirty-something, Filmmaker

    Days at the protest: Since the beginning. What brings you here? Amazed that such a phenomenon can unfold under our noses. This is something different and new. Do you have a message? This is a self-organized process. A city just sprung up here. Hobbies: Filmmaking.

Comments

  1. steve says:
    October 11, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    was there talking with these beautiful and peaceful kids sat. you missed many of  the most attractive kids but that wasn’t their most important message

  2. JS says:
    October 11, 2011 at 6:21 pm

    Uh those chicks aren’t hot. Meh at best.
    2) Nasty face, chick in background has giant ass but she’s not hot either.
    3) Good body and cute-ish face but butch hair is a major turn off, maybe the only do-able one here though.
    5) LOOK AT THAT FACE! OMG NO, good body though, classic paper bag scenario.
    6) No way, just no way.
    8) Oh this ones not bad, she kinda looks like a bit of a bitch though.
    9) She’s not too bad either, probably wouldn’t hit it sober but maybe with a light buzz.
    10) Yuck, she’s skinny but has no tits, nasty face too.

    Why do none of these girls seem to be wearing makeup, they need it.

    1. LVB says:
      October 12, 2011 at 1:43 am

      wow, your kind of a disgusting, chauvinistic asshole. 

      1. Gorgonzola says:
        October 12, 2011 at 4:59 pm

         Um….. the article is entitled “The Hottest People at Occupy Wall Street”; if you have a grievance, it’s with the Observer, not “JS”.

    2. Renegade322 says:
      October 12, 2011 at 2:08 am

      Hehe, not a bad HOT or NOT analysis. I too am a disgusting, chauvinistic asshole but I think LVB is one of the women pictured.

    3. Really? says:
      October 13, 2011 at 1:51 pm

      okay your turn!  post your picture so we can tell you how ugly you are!

    4. Trevor Salse says:
      October 19, 2011 at 10:08 am

      who are you to rip on them they may not be attractive i agree but simply who the fuck are you to voice your piece of shit opinion.

    5. skeezballs says:
      November 7, 2011 at 8:41 pm

      haha classic paper bag scenario

  3. Marcel says:
    October 11, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    Zora’s my friend! 

    1. Renegade322 says:
      October 12, 2011 at 2:10 am

      She’s pretty hot. Is she a bitch?

    2. Nyellis says:
      October 12, 2011 at 2:15 am

      How can she be your friend if you call her Zora but her name is actually Zara?

    3. Anonymous says:
      October 12, 2011 at 7:26 am

      Is she in the same mental facility as you are?

  4. Jacqueline Gares says:
    October 11, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    I love Jesse LaGreca! Awesome faceoff with Fox News!

  5. Anonymous says:
    October 11, 2011 at 6:55 pm

    Not one of these people can describe, in any sort of intelligible fashion, why they are protesting or what they hope the protest will accomplish. I have yet to hear one protester articulately explain why they are “occupying Wall Street” (including LaGreca, who sounded like an over-excited, marginally informed, self-satisfied teenager in his FOX News interview).  The message is “we’re mad!, rich people suck, capitalism sucks (oh wait, what is capitalism??), revolution!”  If there was a clear, well-reasoned message, I might not completely disagree with it.  But as it stands, this whole protest strikes me as completely pointless. 

  6. auntie says:
    October 11, 2011 at 7:19 pm

    now all you little boys keep your peelin’ eyes off of my young daughter. she ain’t goin’ to be swept away by no man. she needs to stay home and feed the pigs with uncle jeb. 

  7. A Skeptic says:
    October 11, 2011 at 9:16 pm

    Proles.  We need a good war.

  8. Anonymous says:
    October 11, 2011 at 9:57 pm

    Jesse LaGreca rockin’ the Union Soldier cap FTW.

    Awesome, civil war part 2 isn’t a bad idea.  I know what side I’m on. 

  9. Dphampton says:
    October 11, 2011 at 11:46 pm

    Are we protesting Wall Street or Hydraulic Fracking? Or are we just bored, and like to blame other people for our problems?

  10. Soren Kay says:
    October 11, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    Those are some pretty homely “hot” people.

  11. Black Flag says:
    October 12, 2011 at 12:06 am

    Do we know what we’re protesting yet? Have our billionaire masters called to tell us what that is? Or are we going to continue to play useful idiots for them while they use us to fight the other billionaires?

  12. Black Flag says:
    October 12, 2011 at 12:06 am

    Do we know what we’re protesting yet? Have our billionaire masters called to tell us what that is? Or are we going to continue to play useful idiots for them while they use us to fight the other billionaires?

  13. Black Flag says:
    October 12, 2011 at 12:08 am

    Guess which President has raked in the most Wall Street bucks in a generation? If you guessed Obama you’d be right. It’s like a financial circle-jerk. Wall Street gives Obama money, Obama gets elected, Obama gives Wall Street stimulus money, Wall Street donates to Obama, Wall Stree Hopes Obama gets elected and pays off like a slot-machine so they can start the cycle again with the next candidate. Can you say money laundering fast three times?

  14. Black Flag says:
    October 12, 2011 at 12:09 am

    Liberals, you can scream at everyone else all you want. You can blame Palin, Beck, Bush, Limbaugh, Nixon. But YOU voted in the very best the Left had to offer and now look – nothing is working. This America-hating Marxist Community Organizer has broken everything he’s touched. Go yell at him, not us.

  15. Black Flag says:
    October 12, 2011 at 12:10 am

    Now that Obama has been in over two years, the wars have ended, the economy is booming, the deficit is under control, our foreign policy is respected worldwide, the Democrat Party has made solid gains nationally, people in America are coming together and the Middle East is calm.

    Ha! Just kidding! None of that actually happened! Joke’s on all of us!

  16. Nyellis says:
    October 12, 2011 at 2:16 am

    Only Zara was cute, relatively speaking. In absolute terms they’re all trolls.

  17. Angelo R. Mozilo says:
    October 12, 2011 at 2:55 am

    Wow, I take back everything I said about this being a frivolous and unfocused fad movement

  18. Anonymous says:
    October 12, 2011 at 7:23 am

    Here’s one person this site missed:

    Name: Dummy Bonehead

    Days at the protest: I am not sure. One day, two days, a week. Who cares, man? I get to p*ss and sh*t all over the place. Yeah! What brings you here? I don’t want to work – I want to find some rich people and take their stuff. It all belongs to us, you know? Do you have a message? Free government cheese for all! And let’s re-elect Obama, cause he is, like, black, you know? If you don’t vote for Obama, you are racist, right? Hobbies: Not bathing, not cleaning my rearend, and stinking like hell. Plus I can throw a turd at police over 10 feet. They should have, like, an Olympic sport for that, you know?

    1. Trevor Salse says:
      October 19, 2011 at 10:28 am

      Yes the hippies that like free food and tents are the in same group of people that are trying to demand change to this collapsing economy and and want to diminish the stronghold big business has over “stuff” (way of life, natural resources etc.) But lets not let there missions be confused. EDUCATE yourself and know the comfort you and your family feel is a blessing. Your point of view makes me believe you are well off (not rich) and the economy crisis hasn’t effected you in anyway so you see no need for change and from your comfy, typically routine life  you infect the world with your opinions and beliefs. Just because you dont see what needs to be done dosent mean something dosent need to change. how about wee keep out opinions to ourself cause quite frankly I see  your not stupid but I see a lot of ignorance from you.

  19. Garrett York says:
    October 12, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    Really? These are the “hottest” people at OWS? Only the chick with the boots and camera was anywhere near attractive and I suspect she was covering the event more than participating in it.

  20. Gorgonzola says:
    October 12, 2011 at 4:56 pm

     WOW.  Seriously?  A glam spread?   How, um, “newsy”.

  21. Anonymous says:
    October 12, 2011 at 5:50 pm

    So.. yeah – Hottest People at Occupy Wall Street – just a bunch of losers.  How many had a job, much less a career?  How many have a mortgage, children, a spouse? How many have actualy contributed ANYTHING of value to society?   How many have a CLUE?    “boycott sex trafficking”:  Really – How do you do that, exactly??
    “Everyone should contribute 20%”:  Have you seen may paystub, biotch?  If she’d ever earned one herself, and could do basic math, you’d know that you already contribute at least 20%.
    “This city just sprang up here”: Really???  Only is ‘just’ can be defined as almost 400 years.. 

  22. Jim Treacher says:
    October 12, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    Slim pickin’s…

  23. Sukie Tawdry says:
    October 13, 2011 at 2:24 am

    That’s what passes for “hot” down there? Sad. One of them listed as a hobby “boycotting sex trafficking.” What does that even mean? She won’t patronize sex workers who traffic or are trafficked (is there another group out there who will use only trafficked sex workers?)?? These folks are every bit as brainy as they are beautiful. 

  24. Hattrick752 says:
    October 13, 2011 at 4:28 am

    i would go if zora bowman showed up here in san diego

  25. dawnpatrol says:
    October 18, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    Only one hot chick there

  26. Trevor Salse says:
    October 19, 2011 at 10:14 am

    Just cause people aren’t dirty and have combed there hair dosent mean there hot. I understand what this artical is trying to do and like the idea but c’mon. Such a nobile cause degraded by vanity. They are trying to change the world for the better and were talking about wether there attractive or not… is this who we really are?

  27. the RIGHT protestor says:
    October 21, 2011 at 1:48 am

     Do any of these people know who there congressman or senator is ? This is a nation governed by laws. Think camping out in a park is going to change that ? Learn how to LOBBY. How do you think the wall streeters acquired there money, it wasn’t camping !!

  28. Tyler Durden Maybe says:
    October 28, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    P.I.L.F.

  29. debbie says:
    November 15, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    wow really? thats what you think is hot geez your standards are as low and smelly as these  lol >protesters”

  30. Mark V Reid says:
    November 25, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    Man you missed a few people lol! Lupe is hot for one! Amber is hot! What’s up with using the last names? No need lol.

  31. Mark V Reid says:
    November 25, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    No these women are hot! Also every woman is beautiful! Also spirit is more important and in a way hotter than “hot” haha!

  32. JJ ... WHY ARE YOU JJ???? says:
    December 1, 2011 at 10:55 am

    The Saba girl is cute, Joanna and the Zora girl are attractive.  JS is a clown and wishes he could get his D within 5 feet of ANY of those chicks

  33. justanotherdude says:
    December 5, 2011 at 5:29 am

    why are people getting mad that guys like me are giving our opinions on the looks of  women when women do the same thing to men?   And most of the women here are not hot * major exception is the chic with camera*

  34. KS says:
    January 11, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    your not judgung by poeple in the backround idiot

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