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For Some, Wall Street Is Main Street (Occupy Wall Street Begins to Chafe Its Neighbors)
NY Times ^ | 10/07/11 | CARA BUCKLEY

Posted on 10/08/2011 5:59:54 AM PDT by Libloather

For Some, Wall Street Is Main Street
By CARA BUCKLEY
Published: October 7, 2011

**SNIP**

Ms. Tzortzatos’s tolerance for the newcomers finally vanished when the sink was broken and fell to the floor. She installed a $200 lock on the bathroom to thwart nonpaying customers, angering the protesters.

“I’m looked at as the enemy of the people,” she said.

**SNIP**

In a widely distributed pamphlet, “Welcome to Liberty Plaza: Home of Occupy Wall Street,” participants were instructed where to find relief. “After you’ve dined,” it reads, “feel free to refresh yourself in the restrooms of neighboring businesses like Burger King and McDonald’s without feeling obligated to buy anything.”

A manager of the Burger King in question said he had no trouble with the protesters, though a maintenance worker at the McDonald’s, Deon Cook, said that in recent days he had been forced to clean the bathroom every five minutes.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: neighbors; occupy; occupywallstreet; protest; unamericanactivities; wallstreet
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The commies are trashin' the place.
1 posted on 10/08/2011 5:59:57 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I prefer the Conservative alternative, Occupy White House.


2 posted on 10/08/2011 6:01:55 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (welcome dies irae)
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To: Libloather
Just like kids with toys or teens with cars. Unless they pay for it or have a some kind of stake in it they don't take care of it.
3 posted on 10/08/2011 6:08:33 AM PDT by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: Libloather

When liberals have to put up with unemployed liberals messing up their home it’s different!


4 posted on 10/08/2011 6:09:21 AM PDT by politicalmerc (The whole earth may move, but God's throne is never shaken. I think I'll stand by Him..)
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To: Libloather

Bunch of pigs. This is the USA Obammy and the Dems want.


5 posted on 10/08/2011 6:14:10 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: Libloather

Well I’m sure the White House will open it’s doors to Washington protesters so the they can use the facilities. On the other hand, it seems like it wouldn’t make any difference if the protesters just camped out at the White House. They’d fit right in the current Commie occupants.


6 posted on 10/08/2011 6:14:53 AM PDT by mia
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To: Libloather

someone needs to follow the money

who is buying the food for these people?


7 posted on 10/08/2011 6:21:57 AM PDT by Mr. K (Sarah you broke my heart~!! Endorse Cain and all is forgiven)
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To: Libloather

These anti-capitalists sure are engaging in an awful lot of capitalism.


8 posted on 10/08/2011 6:23:49 AM PDT by nodumbblonde ("The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand)
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To: Libloather

Somehow I ended getting this crap from “National People’s Action”, 810 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642! Who are these pricks?

Dear:....

From Wall Street to Los Angeles (and everywhere in between) — community, labor and the Occupiers are coming together.

We are witnessing a new day for the movement to hold Wall Street accountable for crashing our economy and throwing millions of families out of their homes and out of work.

This is OUR time, and our mission is clear: Build a new economy from the ashes of the old.

How do we get there? First, we must march, rally, protest, educate, and act boldly to take back our democracy from the grips of Wall Street bankers.

This week we saw massive protests in New York and California. Next week, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver and other cities will bring tens of thousand of people into the streets to demand change.

Our Demands: Stop foreclosures; Keep families in their homes; Close corporate loopholes; Fix our bridges, roads and schools, and make banks like Bank of America pay their taxes.

There are two things that you can do right now to make a difference.

First, join your friends, co-workers, and neighbors in the streets. Find an action near you and get in contact with the lead organizations.

Take over bank lobbies. Move your money. Hold bankers’ feet to the fire and make them pay U.S. back for all they took from us.

Second, support the movement.

We need more boots on the ground and more buses to get people toe-to-toe with industry ‘leaders’ who have taken so much, and given so little back.

Give $25 dollars today and we’ll send you the same hot-off-the-press t-shirt that people will be wearing as they shut down the Mortgage Bankers Association Conference on Monday in Chicago.

As we march into battle, we’ll have one solid, clear message – “Jobs Now! Make Wall Street Pay.”

Funds from the t-shirts will support similar actions in the days to come, and provide survivors of the bank-caused recession a chance to confront those who have downgraded our neighborhoods and walked away Scott-free.

Support the movement today with a $25 donation, and help us make the message loud and clear: “Jobs Now, Pay Your Fair Share!”

Thank you for all that you do,

National People’s Action (NPA)


9 posted on 10/08/2011 6:30:19 AM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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To: Libloather

This is why Soviet Russia and eastern Europe was the hellhole it was: In Communism, when everything belongs to everyone, nobody takes responsibility for anything.

Somehow, many of these protesters want our country to be like that.


10 posted on 10/08/2011 6:34:51 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Of the declared candidates: (1) Perry, (2) Cain. I'll happily vote for either if he's the nominee.)
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For some reason I woke up with this tin foil hat on this morning and I got this crazy idea that this whole protesting thing may be a put up job that may be meant to follow in Hugo Chavez’s footsteps when he took over his country.

At first the media asking these people what they were protesting, were finding out that no body could give them a good answer as to why they were there. And then yesterday I saw on Fox that some of the protesters were paid illegals carrying signs that they couldn’t even read because they don’t even speak english.

That made me think about the article from some blog or something that I read back before this whole thing started that said that many leftist groups were planning a march. So all these leftist groups, socialists, communists and what not, were coming together for what? And Nancy Palosi welcoming them? Something’s wrong.

Didn’t obama’s hero, Hugo Chavez, take over after protesters start rioting?

I probably need to get me a cup of coffee to clean the cob webs out of my brain so I’ll stop having tin foil hat kinda thoughts.


11 posted on 10/08/2011 6:41:22 AM PDT by GloriaJane (Pro Choice = Pro Death - Pro Life = Pro LIFE!)
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To: WellyP
Give $25 dollars today and we’ll send you the same hot-off-the-press t-shirt that people will be wearing as they shut down the Mortgage Bankers Association Conference on Monday in Chicago.

That's the capitalist spirit! Prolly an 80% markup on each shirt.
12 posted on 10/08/2011 6:41:48 AM PDT by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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To: WellyP

National Training & Info Center in Chicago, IL | 810 N Milwaukee ...www.superpages.com/.../Chicago-IL/National-Training-Info-Center- ...Cached
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810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642 http://ntic-us.org... (312) 243-3035 Additional Contacts (312) 243-7044 Fax.

Here’s the tax ID number for the property.
Tax ID / APN 17 05 415 027 0000


13 posted on 10/08/2011 6:47:09 AM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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“Dear:....”

Ahh... the old “business is evil, now buy my stuff” pitch.

People everywhere are told to freely trespass and disrupt legitimate business. But to occupy the official shirt of the movement will cost you 25 bucks. (no doubt BOA Visa accepted)

Illegal Occupation. It’s not just for border states anymore.

Great, now we need a wall AND a net.


14 posted on 10/08/2011 6:49:17 AM PDT by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: Libloather
I have a friend who's a pot-smoking 60 year old hippie.

She wants to start an Occupy-(Her home town).

Lord.

15 posted on 10/08/2011 6:52:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("If Herman Cain does become President, his Vice President will be known as Co-Cain." -- Laz, 2011)
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To: Libloather
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16 posted on 10/08/2011 6:54:03 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Libloather

Is it just me, or does anybody else love the filthy, commie awesomeness of the NY Times turning on their own? What could be sweeter than Manhattan super-libs becoming vexed by the eye-watering funk of bone headed bohemians bathing in the basins at local bistros? BOOOOYAAA! They have worn out their welcome already. The merchants, local residents, the cops, and the mayor are all ready to say goodbye to these fools. They are just being themselves...that’s right, they’re stinking, noisy freeloaders. Hopefully, with some bad weather and colder temperatures they’ll vanish.


17 posted on 10/08/2011 6:54:13 AM PDT by CharlesThe Hammer
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To: Libloather

They OCCUPY NY in lieu of an ability to hold an actual OCCUPATION.


18 posted on 10/08/2011 6:55:36 AM PDT by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: Libloather

The filthy pigs always do.
They have no respect for others property.


19 posted on 10/08/2011 6:58:36 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: WellyP

http://keywiki.org/index.php/George_Soros_-_Affiliations
AND:

National Training and Information Center | Capital Research Centercapitalresearch.org/tag/national-training-and-information-center/Cached
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4 Jun 2009 – The Saul Alinsky-inspired National Training and Information Center (NTIC) has agreed to fork over $550000 to the U.S. government to make ...

National Training and Information Center
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To support the National Training and Information Center (NTIC), a 36 year old national resource center that supports, strengthens, and coordinates multi-issue grassroots community organizations working for social and economic justice, on housing, fiscal service regulation, and immigration issues. (This project was co-funded by the OSI Equality and Opportunity Fund’s Neighborhood Stabilization Initiative and the Seize the Day special funding initiative.)

Chicago, IL | $600,000 | 2 years | www.ntic-us.org


20 posted on 10/08/2011 6:59:27 AM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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