What happened on Saturday in New York for the “Occupy Wall Street” protest? The media coverage before, during and after the event was minimal. A live web cam of Wall Street during the protest showed little activity.
The police actually closed off Wall Street to block the protest. An alternative location was offered and rejected by the protesters which were estimated to be about 1000. The following video shows interviews near Wall Street during the protest and Saturday night in the dark.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sfAs_d2N-E
Some of the memorable quotes and points from the protesters:
1. It’s our duty as Americans to fight for our country.
I agree. Do they know what they are fighting for when they say this?
2. Humanize the markets.
A moral and virtuous people would not have to entertain such a concept.
3. A young man feels the need to partially obscure his face.
This man is a coward who is not willing to sacrifice his life, fortune or sacred honor for his convictions or country.
4. A young woman states that all it will take for people to join twenty year old, white college students in the streets is for people to lose their insurance and unemployment benefits.
Our republic was not founded on or made great by handouts. This is what is causing our collapse. If she is correct, the country is lost.
5. The police corralled the statue of the bull so it was a success.
This will become a symbol of the success of this protest.
6. Big banks are destroying this country.
If people did not go into debt, a bank would have no power over you. When we freely go into debt, we are the ones responsible for our own enslavement.
David DeGerolamo
Occupy Wall Street – Day 2
Wall Street was blocked off by the New York City Police Department for a second day in a row as demonstration organizers-primarily from the group OccupyWall Street-targeting Wall Street financial firms tried to keep up protests.
According to Bloomberg, between 300 and 400 people hung around Chase Manhattan Plaza on Sunday, significantly lower than the nearly 1,000 the day before for a protest dubbed “OccupyWallStreet.” An additional group of people marched uptown on Broadway with signs reading “end corporate welfare” and “we are too big to fail.”
“People have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we’ll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a Sept. 15 press conference. “As long as they do it where other people’s rights are respected, this is the place where people can speak their minds, and that’s what makes New York, New York.”
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At this point, it is unclear how many people are expected to show up to Wall Street on Monday, when many Wall Street employees will be heading back to work.
A job is a right
