Yes, there was an Occupy the Rose Parade event in Pasadena today, though you wouldn't have known it through broadcast television. OTRP was not an official part of the parade. They were allowed onto the parade route after the official floats, which meant after network TV had turned their cameras off. Sigh.
The OTRP contingent featured a large octopus, (nicely made out of recyclable plastic bags), a 250 foot long copy of the Constitution, a banner of the preamble of the Constitution with the word "people" replaced with "corporations" and signatures replace with corporate logos, and lots (maybe 3,000?) of people carrying signs. They only walked 1.5 miles of the 5.5 mile route.
Knowing about OTRP made me think about the Rose Parade a little differently. Though I didn't count I did note the corporate floats (and some of the announcer descriptions sounded a lot like advertising). Yes, watching the parade was enjoyable, but I could also see how clean, sterile, and corporatized it is (though that probably happened decades ago).
Ah, the internet provides alternate resources.
A "Live Blog" of the event. A participant describes various events throughout the day. Scroll to the bottom and work back to the top.
A video of the OTRP contingent posted on the KTLA site. I don't think this was a professional cameraman. The video is about 3 minutes long.
A slideshow of 13 photos with a bit of commentary.
A news report on Huffington Post with an extensive slideshow (close to 60 images).
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