Written by Bess Kalb, a senior at Brown University, who attended the Providence, RI Tea Party as a HuffPost citizen journalist. She interviewed a surprising number of slogan-wielding youth along with a couple of adults. Eight interviews and their corresponding photographs are below:
1. Aviva, 11 and Isabelle, 8
Q: What brings you out here today?Aviva: The big stimulus.
Q: How do you feel about the stimulus?Aviva: It's not making me happy.Isabelle: Obama is not making me happy.
2. George MaCauleyQ: Does that sign reflect your mood today?A: I'm mad as hell, and I'm not about to take it anymore.
3. Emily, 8 and Samuel, 10
Q: Why are you here?(silence)Mother: To oppose Obama's trillion dollar budget. To cut the pork.Samuel: For the pork.Q: How do you feel about pork spending?Samuel: I like pork.Mother: No you don't. We don't like excess spending.Samuel: I do. I like pork.
4. Kaitlin, 9, Kyla, 5 and Jon
Q: Why are you here today?Kyla: I don't know.Jon: You did in the car.Kaitlin: To lower taxes.Jon: It's going to be them that bears the brunt of this.Kaitlin: In the future.
5. Evan, 8, Marina, 9 and Vera, 4
Q: Is that Barney Frank?Evan: No.Marina: Yes.
Q: How do you guys feel about the job he's doing?Marina: Bad.Evan: I don't know.Mother: If it were up to Barney Frank, Evan, you'll start your life in debt.Evan: That's why we're protesting.Marina: And term limits.
6. Dan Forbes, "No Relation" (Brown '97)
Q: You don't fit in here.Dan: I'm a financial planner.
Q: Do you protest much?Dan: Never. I've never gone protesting before.
Q: Why today?Dan: I came to observe.
Q: You left the office at 3 in the afternoon.Dan: I have a lot in common with these guys. We want the same thing, basically.
Q: What's that?Dan: We want to better our financial situation. We've all got kids to send to school.
7. Victoria, "10th-grader""How Do You Like the Change So Far?"
Q: What kind of change would you like to see?Victoria: I like change in general.
Q: What's wrong with change so far?Victoria: I didn't make this sign. My friend did.
Q: Why are you holding it?Victoria: The blue, see? (holds it to her shirt)
Q: Oh. It's the same color.Victoria: I'm gonna go protest now.
8. Anne, 7 and Alexander, 9
Q: Your parents seem to be British. Alexander: They're from England.
Q: This protest is modeled on the Boston Tea Party, when Americans ransacked British ships carrying tea.Alexander: I don't think so.Father: It's true. But we're over it.Anne: I'm American but they're not.