NEW YORK — Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and other issues showed no signs of giving up their campaign Monday, with organizers urging participants to dress up as what they called corporate zombies and to take part in a rally against police brutality.Read the rest here.
The arrests of 700 people on Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend fueled the anger of the protesters camping in a Manhattan park and sparked support elsewhere in the country as the campaign entered its third week.
Occupy Wall Street started with fewer than a dozen college students spending days and nights in Zuccotti Park, a plaza near the city’s financial center. But a day after Saturday’s mass arrests, hundreds of protesters were resolute and like-minded groups in other cities had joined in.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Wall Street protests continue and spread
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Too little, too late. Wall St. has controlled Washington for 100 years already. Only difference is that people ar only now beginning to understand that the game is rigged. They turned a blind eye to it for decades, so longer as they had a comfortable middle-class life. The applecart has been upset and maybe that's why people have finally started informing themselves.
This is not just a bourgeois blind spot. Washington protects Wall Street from the risks of de-leveraging that would otherwise bankrupt it, and Wall Street provides leveraged finance for Washington's overseas wars and social engineering schemes.
To say Wall Street 'controls' Washington is to obscure the necessary and mutually beneficial relationship between the USG (includings its state and local satraps), the Fed and the primary dealers' network.
There's a big difference between a policy and its transmission channel.
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