From Occupy Seattle:

“The Occupy Movement is finally identifying that there’s a problem with the system and poor people are a symbol of the problem.”
http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=11551765

The Rev. John Helmiere’s face shows wounds after he says a Seattle police officer beat him while he was trying to keep peace during an Occupy protest on Dec. 12. Photo courtesy of the Helmiere family.

From UMC.org :

The United Methodist Church has always been in support of the right of nonviolence witness and protest, Simpson said. “That’s the function that clergy, in clergy garb, have served in public demonstrations for decades.”