Occupy DC Movement Grows (video)

Created by Joseph Rabinowitz and Jen Wolfe

GW Students Become Involved in Occupy DC Movements

Ever slept in Freedom Plaza?

Miles Milliken has. The GW Sophomore majoring in Environmental Studies has slept in the plaza, located at 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, more than once over the past couple of months.

He has become involved in a movement that goes by several names, an offshoot of the Occupy Movement that calls itself "October 2011," the month its participants began to "occupy" Freedom Plaza. The other most common name for the movement is "Stop the Machine: Create a New World."

Milliken was there from the beginning of the occupation of Freedom Plaza, when the movement was originally given a four day permit to set up camp. Besides sleeping outside in the plaza at night a couple of times in either a tent or under a tarp, Milliken helped in the movement's food tent where he prepared pots of soup and coffee to keep more than 200 protestors warm.