Posted: Sunday, July 8, 2012 5:00 am | Updated: 7:46 am, Sun Jul 8, 2012.
Protesters pitched tents and camped out at Snipes Farm on Friday in Falls as part of this week’s 99 Mile March between Philadelphia and New York City.
The march, which began at the Liberty Bell and will end in Liberty Square at the National Gathering of the Occupy Movement on Wednesday, has drawn between 70 and 100 participants from around the country.
Many were scattered on towels and blankets at Snipes, trying to stay cool by refilling water bottles from the faucets at the camp site where some have been since Thursday.
The group, calling itself Occupy Guitarmy, traveled from Center City to Falls strumming guitars and singing protest songs along the way.
“The theme of this march is that they have money for war but not for school music programs,” said Tony Bates, one of the organizers. “Learning music expands spatial intelligence.”
The Guitarmy takes pop songs and protest songs and reworks them to fit the issues of the Occupy movement during the marches.
“Music moves you and pulls you into change,” said Mary Spokane, 65, of Olympia, Wash. “Without music, people like John Lennon, we would not have had a revolution. It was the music that made me join this group.”
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