Unions Set to Join "Occupy Wall Street" Protests

Several major groups set to join what has so far been a sprawling, unfocused demonstration in lower Manhattan.


Occupy Wall Street began on September 17 as a response to a call from Adbusters to protest the current financial system. The magazine envisioned 20,000 people flooding Wall Street, occupying the area for a few months, sleeping in tents. Approximately 2,000 showed up at first, with crowds leveling out in the hundreds since then. Some protesters live, eat, and sleep at Zuccotti park, while others filter in and out of the camp-like protest grounds. They renamed the park One Liberty Plaza and, apparently, have managed to get the USPS to deliver a package to that address.




http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09/ ... in_wa.html

Cool maybe vl will be there.

I think they should send in SEAL Team-6 to the Cayman Islands and liberate all that offshore money... Wipe out a few bankers while they're at it.

I cant wait to see these union boys and girls get peppered sprayed too.

Yeah just wait until the police and fire fighter unions join them. PEPPER SPRAY FIGHT!!! WEEEEE!

DENVER - A national protest movement moved from the streets of New York to Denver on Saturday.

"Occupy Denver" is the local protest based on the larger "Occupy Wall Street" protests in New York City.

Protesters say they are a leaderless resistance movement, and the one thing they have in common is they will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of Wall Street.

http://www.9news.com/rss/article/222412 ... ll-Street-

700 arrested after swarming NY’s Brooklyn Bridge, shutting down lane of traffic for hours

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... ingtonpost

NEW YORK — More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, global warming and social inequality, among other grievances, were arrested Saturday after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours in a tense confrontation with police.


It seems to me that this is the Democrat version of the tea party. Shutting down traffic is not helping things it is costing NY money to deal with this.

CinnamonGirl wrote: 700 arrested after swarming NY’s Brooklyn Bridge, shutting down lane of traffic for hours

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... ingtonpost

NEW YORK — More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, global warming and social inequality, among other grievances, were arrested Saturday after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours in a tense confrontation with police.


It seems to me that this is the Democrat version of the tea party. Shutting down traffic is not helping things it is costing NY money to deal with this.

It's like the Tea Party with more trash, disruption, and no definable goal.

Just what are the protesters against?
What do they want? Communism? Socialism? Free food? Free electricity? Free.............?

Arlen wrote: Just what are the protesters against?
What do they want? Communism? Socialism? Free food? Free electricity? Free.............?

I gather it's more an expression of what they DON'T want....

http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/