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There are a few hundred protesters at Wall and William Streets in the Financial District. They are protesting the Wall Street financial firms and their huge government bailouts; according to Bail Out the People, they are marching "through the narrow streets of the New York Financial District - Major financial institutions are all along Broadway and within one block of Rally - Chase, Fidelity, American Express, the New York Stock Exchange, the Federal Reserve, and more... We will march east on Pine to the AIG Buildings at 70 Pine and 80 Pine and then to the AIG Building on Water St." Another march is planned for tomorrow. Photo: dorkasaurus rex
Wall Street Protesters March Downtown
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the cops have busted the block of canal street near pearl paint.
I talked to them and they said that
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this is a BYOP event (bring your own pitchfork)
ha!
Do these guys have a permit to
protest ?
Why aren't you at work!?
I understand the protest, but lower Manhattan on a Saturday is a ghosttown, except for the people that overpayed for FiDi condos.
@Mr. Danaghy
Today's Friday.
commies
Too bad there won't a be a big turnout.
Should be hundreds of thousands there.
Thank god Domino's is bailing us all out.
Phew!
Thank god Domino's is bailing us all out.
Phew!
i can't believe in this day and age that people think a protest on wall street is going to change anything.
really?
if you're going to be radical and you want change, do what they did in "fight club" and blow up all the major banks. marching around on a wet day isn't going to change anyone's mind. this is a dumb exercise in futility.
People who organize these things are usually either still in college or have graduated but never mentally left campus. All they know is that this sort of passive demonstration seemed to work at school when they were protesting the lack of a sufficient variety of ethnic foods served in the campus cafeteria.
The ignorance is unbelievable.
First it was the Connecticut homes. Then it was squatting. Now it's Wall St.
Blame the NY Fed if you really want the main culprit.
That's a protest? they need to start smashing windows and in the G20 protests. that's real outrage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343bCGrM3nU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343bCGrM3nU
G20 London Protest- that is a real protest. NYC is lame.
they still haven't caught that times square bike bomber.
A little bit of research shows that "Bail Out the People" is just a front organization for a group called "International Action Center" founded by Ramsey Clark and supports terrorists and murders of police officers. Not that it says anything about who the hell they are on the website, and the address given is someone's apartment, but they will gladly take donations. Not exactly the thing to garner a lot of trust.
Just google their phone number 212-633-6646 and see how many other front groups show up. Let us name just three of dog knows how many:
"Peoples Rights Fund"
"Youth and Students for Mumia"
"NoDraftNoWay.org"
And the rest of the 'droids will sit on their fat asses on Gothamist criticizing them, surely a way to better the world.
Right?
The protesters have already been bundled and sold as "subprime activists" to an overseas private equity firm. The default swaps on their "March On Wall Street" have been trading as high as 12%.
A pillow fight will take place on Wall St today as well. That will be far more impressive that this stupid protest.