Skateboarders were getting some air in Freedom Plaza on Thursday night. There was a shoeless man with a long gray ponytail meditating on a yoga mat. Others gathered in the White House adjacent park to bang on a giant drum as rap blasted from a speaker hooked up to an iPad and a group of friends chatted as they sat in a circle of folding chairs outside a giant camping tent. A few yards away, a couple laid on sleeping bags snacked on Nutella, watching a half dozen volunteers erect a giant blue tarp with the words “DEMOCRACY,” “COMMUNITY” and “DIGNITY.”
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