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Registered nurse Doug
Connor loves his country.
That's why he's busy backing
the Occupy movement and
NNU's tax on Wall Street.
By Erin FitzGerald
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ou'd be hard pressed to find more of
an all-American family man than registered nurse Doug Connor. An Iraq War
veteran, he lives in the suburbs of the San
Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their
two toddlers. When he's not working as an
intensive care unit RN, he is studying for
his advanced degree as a nurse practitioner. Raised in a conservative military family, Connor is clean shaven, well spoken, and always believed earnestly
that "if you do as you're told, if you do the right thing, you'll be ok."
All that changed last November, the night that he was arrested
for the first time in his life during an Occupy Oakland protest.
Connor had been volunteering as a medic and helping run NNU's
first aid station at the Occupy Oakland camp. On the night of Nov. 2,
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