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John Joe Baxter is a 72-year-old troubadour from Rockaway Beach in Queens. He’s been coming to Occupy Wall Street every day since it started. “I think this is the beginning of something that has never happened in our lifetimes in America,” he told me yesterday. “I think this is going to turn into the biggest movement ever in this country. Because all these people here feel exactly the way we feel.”
Here he is singing an as-yet-unnamed song that he wrote for the movement, as cops try to keep his audience from blocking the sidewalk:
