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The Monk Who Got Arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge... for Meditating

The Monk Who Got Arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge... for Meditating
Tue, 4/24/2012

Dada Pranakrsnananda is a yogic monk of Ananda Marga, a social activist, a member of the Occupy Wall Street and one of the first arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1. 700 other arrests soon followed. Faced with a phalanx of officers blocking the midpoint of the bridge, Pranakrsnananda made his body limp and police carried him away to chants of, "He did nothing! He did nothing!" He recounts his story in this short film produced by OccupyTVNY.

 

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