Posted on 09/17/2011 1:58:08 PM PDT by tobyhill
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Manhattan's financial district on Saturday in a largely peaceful protest aimed at drawing attention to the role powerful financial interests played in wreaking havoc on America's economy.
Modeled on the "Arab Spring" uprisings that swept through Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and other countries this year, Occupy Wall Street is a "leaderless resistance movement" orchestrated through Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools. The Twitter hashtag #OccupyWallStreet lit up Saturday with coordination messages and solidarity tweets.
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I’M MILDLY IRRITATED AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT FOR MUCH LONGER!!!!
It seems that these people need a lesson in geography. Pennsylvania Avenue is where they need to be if they want to address havoc on America's economy.
WOW! Hundreds showed up! As a percentage of the population of NYC, that is just HUGE! /sarc
Was projected to be thousands upon thousands there. At least the men and women of law enforcement got to catch up with old friends and make some new ones in their community. I can imagine they were mostly bored as what few troublemakers who were there found not much of a crowd to hide in.
I think there were more lines in the article than there are protesters on Wall St.
Shouldn’t they be caring about corruption, things like pay for play and easy bailouts, rather than simply how powerful the financial enterprise is?
This is old tired hippie-ism at its worst. If a legitimate company is eating your lunch, the obvious answer is to invest in it.
On Saturday, when Wall Street is closed. People unclear on the concept.
Lord may I please ask for a massive downpour for NYC this evening?
Day of Peevishness.
oh wait! Leftist girls naked...skanks and dogs and Reno and Thomas and Nepolitano and uuhhmm No Thanks
strike that
All the hot girls are on the Right! :o>
I believe they intend to camp out there for a while. Of course, the only way that happens is if Bloomberg orders the NYPD to stand down.
What silly people, I hope it rains, snows and blows on them. And they get tickets for littering.
UH, its a “leaderless resistance movement” ???
More like a “brainless resistance movement”..
don’t they know there is football on all weekend?
What if you twittered a revolution and no one came?
No really, it shows the American people don't want that class warfare crap no more. That even after all the molesting this country has endured by the Leftist, we still aren't sissified bend over populace that will take part in there Psudeo-October Revolution!
Suck on that Van Jones!
Reminds me of the old low-budget film that hyped "A Cast of Thousands" . . . Fred Thousands, Tom Thousands, Mary Thousands.
Notice how the collective idiots have yet failed to march on Washington and protest the politicians that also got us into this economic mess...you know the same ones that in cahoots with those powerful financial interests............. =.=
Nothing more than the AnointedIdiot’s astroturfing of class warfare, methinks.
“If a legitimate company is eating your lunch, the obvious answer is to invest in it.”
Good point. While gas prices were rapidly rising, I heard some liberal co-workers complain about oil companies having absolute control over oil prices and making tons of money. I asked a few of them why they didn’t invest in those very companies if their profit potential was that assured. A number of them said the stock price would probably tank if they bought in, and they didn’t see the contradiction in their response. Typical libs; always complaining about others making money.
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