On Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, The Range spent most of the day at Occupy Tucson looking for folks we first interviewed when the local Occupy started Oct. 15 at Armory Park. The following audio interviews (and apologies for our laugh track and lengthy questions or commentary) include two people we met that first day, Mathew Pence and Alex Maldonado, along with others who remain committed to the downtown Occupy at its new venue, Veinte De Agosto Park.

I found Pence at the IT tent talking to a UA student working on a journalism class project. Maldonado, a veteran and member of Veterans for Peace, who heads the peacekeeper working group, was just about to start a peacekeeper meeting. I got a chance to interview him for the story this week and ask him other questions for the audio interview. Other perspectives include Mike Merrill, a homeless man in his early 20s, laid off and now living on the streets these past two months; Alice River, a Vietnam-era U.S. Air Force veteran involved as a peacekeeper; former Green Party mayoral candidate Mary DeCamp; and Miriam, a volunteer who makes dinner for the crowd every Sunday. By the way, she would love someone to donate some black beans, since she's gone through all of her pinto-bean recipes.

Mathew Pence by RafiSounds

Michael Merrill, Landfill by RafiSounds

Alex Maldonado by RafiSounds

Mary DeCamp by RafiSounds

Alice River by RafiSounds

Miriam by Mari Herreras