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July 3, 2014

Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Freed from Prison 
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Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily Mc Millan has been released after
nearly two months behind bars. Mc Millan was convicted in May of
assaulting a police officer at a 2012 protest. She says she struck out
instinctively when her breast was grabbed from behind. Speaking to
reporters just after walking free, Mc Millan said she will work to make
sure the voices of women prisoners reach "outside the prison system."

Cecily Mc Millan: "If Judge Zweibel, [District Attorney] Cyrus Vance or
Michael Bloomberg set out to make an example out of me to dissuade
dissent, this has had the exact opposite impact. I am absolutely and
further committed to fighting for rights and freedoms that I did not
even realize had been eroded to the extent that they have. I will work
tirelessly to make sure that these women's voices reach outside of that
prison system. And I feel like we have finally made a real and concrete
step towards effecting a true possibility of the statement, 'We are the
99 percent.'"

 

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