As the police look on, it's a typical day for the denizens, artists and curious tourists down at Occupy Wall Street on October 22, 2011. Please enjoy this more observational sampling of the sights and sounds. Shot on a Canon 60D and edited on FCP X by Matt Binetti.

There is a famous NYC fixture featured in this video and his name is David Peel. (He is the one blowing the whistle.) You can read about Mr. Peel in this New York Times article: nytimes.com/2012/04/29/nyregion/david-peel-sang-once-for-lennon-now-for-occupy-wall-street.html.

Besides a political activist for over 40 years, Peel is perhaps most famous for a song he wrote called "I Like Marijuana." Mr. Peel, and his old band The Lower East Side, performed this song in the film Rude Awakening starring Eric Roberts and Cheech Marin and it is about two hippies that return to modern life after years living in a jungle commune.

John Lennon also took a liking to Mr. Peel's music. According to the New York Time article:

"Peel became so associated with Lennon that in the early 1970s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation mistakenly put Mr. Peel’s head shot on an intelligence advisory about Mr. Lennon...Lennon first saw Mr. Peel playing in Washington Square Park in 1971 and was introduced to him by the founders of the Yippie movement, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. They all immediately began singing along to Mr. Peel’s song 'The Pope Smokes Dope,' until the scene was broken up by the police. Lennon began performing with Mr. Peel and signed him to Apple Records for the album “The Pope Smokes Dope,” which Mr. Peel said was widely banned, largely for its title."

If you want to hear the catchy tune "I Like Marijuana," fast forward this video to one minute and fifty-five seconds in: youtu.be/4gWNtL8mCbw