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5:28 Wall St. Protesters Say They’re Settled In (ABC)
5:22 Livestream (hmm, patchy and a bit biased) by AnonOps @anonops
2:44 Police put Wall Street under lockdown after reading plans on Twitter
2:35 Protesters Gather For Demonstration Modeled On Arab Spring
10:43 Mayor Bloomberg saw it coming
“The public is not happy,” he said. “The public knows there is something wrong in this country, and there is. The bottom line is that they’re upset.”
9:30 Occupy Wall Street protest is an omen of future action against corporate greed
9:16 Wall Street Cordoned Off Again as Ranks of Protesters Dwindle
8:59 Police block ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters via @RawStory
8:36 Cops block Wall Street protesters
7:44 Bloomberg Protesters Converge on Lower Manhattan, Plan ‘Occupation’
7:13 Police stop 700 US ‘Indigados’ marching towards Wall St.
4:26 NYT reports
4:00 CNN finally reports
3:04 ABC reports
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Wall Street has turned into a campground, according to eye witness reports, people have gathered to peacefully protest the double tax standard, hedge fund bonuses and the $300 million underwater cable being laid between London and New York to speed up financial transactions by 6 milliseconds, among other things.
Not widely reported in the news, for fear of a larger gathering, the milling protesters say they may camp out on Wall Street, “for up to a month.”
Protesters have gone as far as to place a small stuffed bunny rabbit on the hood of a police car. Some slogans include: “feed the poor, eat the rich”. Also; “The system is going to collapse,” a voice blasted through megaphone, “we are here to make it collapse faster.”
“The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99 Percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the one percent,” said a statement on the website Occupy Wall Street. The movement was launched by the online magazine Adbusters in July.
There is a Al Jazeera stream of the mellow protest available here. According to Twitter, the riot police are closing in.
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