The Hottest People at Occupy Wall Street

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)
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, boycotting sex-trafficking.
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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.
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steve

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
JS

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. 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.
Marcel

Zora’s my friend!
http://www.facebook.com/jgares Jacqueline Gares

I love Jesse LaGreca! Awesome faceoff with Fox News!
Anonymous

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.
auntie

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.
A Skeptic

Proles. We need a good war.
Anonymous

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.
Dphampton

Are we protesting Wall Street or Hydraulic Fracking? Or are we just bored, and like to blame other people for our problems?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Soren-Kay/100001270456452 Soren Kay

Those are some pretty homely “hot” people.
Black Flag

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?
Black Flag

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?
Black Flag

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?
Black Flag

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.
Black Flag

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!
LVB

wow, your kind of a disgusting, chauvinistic asshole.
Renegade322

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.
Renegade322

She’s pretty hot. Is she a bitch?
Nyellis

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

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

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

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?
Anonymous

Is she in the same mental facility as you are?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=734616217 Garrett York

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.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7BV3NEYPQ5O3HYC3FMOSFARWIU Gorgonzola

WOW. Seriously? A glam spread? How, um, “newsy”.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7BV3NEYPQ5O3HYC3FMOSFARWIU Gorgonzola

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

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..
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

Slim pickin’s…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sukie-Tawdry/100000706973113 Sukie Tawdry

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.
Hattrick752

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

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

Only one hot chick there
Trevor Salse

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.
Trevor Salse

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?
Trevor Salse

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.
the RIGHT protestor

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 !!
Tyler Durden Maybe

P.I.L.F.
skeezballs

haha classic paper bag scenario
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7TJAA4O3XRJEICGUVRYNT7J5NM debbie

wow really? thats what you think is hot geez your standards are as low and smelly as these lol >protesters”
http://twitter.com/philosophymark Mark V Reid

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.
http://twitter.com/philosophymark Mark V Reid

No these women are hot! Also every woman is beautiful! Also spirit is more important and in a way hotter than “hot” haha!
JJ … WHY ARE YOU JJ????

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
justanotherdude

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*
KS

your not judgung by poeple in the backround idiot

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The Hottest People at Occupy Wall Street

Zain, 30, Former Tattoo Artist

Ashley Drzymala, 21, Student/Teacher's Assistant

Saba Gray, 18, Fashion Intern

Terron Wood, 25, Model

Joanna Guerriere, 30, Life Coach

Bethiah Rosa, 23, 'a Bunch of Jobs'

Jesse LaGreca, 31, The Smartest Man on Wall Street

Zora Bowman, 19, Student

Cara Money, 22, Works for a Documentary Film Company

Priya "Warcry," Thirty-something, Filmmaker

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