Posted on 09/27/2011 3:29:23 PM PDT by jakerobins
A week-old Wall St. protest got a little star power Tuesday in the form of activist actress Susan Sarandon.
"I'm just here to be educated," the "Bull Durham" star said as some of the young demonstrators in the crowd asked each other, "Who is she?"
Sarandon, 64, stopped by the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park on her way to catch a flight to Italy.
The protesters peppered her with questions about climate change, consumerism and the economy. "It helps to focus on one thing to be accomplished," she advised.
"Is everyone here registered to vote? Are you having people sign petitions?"
Sarandon is a veteran of protest marches and civil disobedience actions for liberal and humanitarian causes.
Her latest film project is a movie about former Weather Underground militants.
The protesters she visited are staging actions against major financial institutions. A march over the weekend turned violent, with a cop pepper-spraying some demonstrators.
"I'm very happy to be here," Sarandon said. "I'm here to support freedom of speech
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OMG!!! If she burps, that dress is slipping off. This is why they make double stick tape.
What’s Susan’s carbon footprint?
And probably secretly met with her brokers to check up on her investments.
Typical liberal limosine leninist hypocrite. Sarandon to the protesters: “Yeah proles, fight the power, eat the rich! Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get this limo to the airport for my private flight to Italy. I’m having dinner on the Po in Venice this evening and I shant be late. I mean, if I didn’t have such a busy schedule flying all around the world and hob-nobbing with the celebrity elite, I’d be out there marching in the streets right along side you comrades. You understand don’t you, comrades? Fight the power! [raises her fist-in-the-air then pulls it back in, adjusts her pearl necklace, rolls up the tinted window and signals her chauffeur to drive off].
Yikes!
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