Police confront barrier-storming protesters

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Run time: 05:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2k0H7_vr5o   Posted on YouTube: October 06, 2011 By YouTube Member: AlJazeeraEnglish Views on YouTube: 307   Posted on DU: October 06, 2011 By DU Member: sce56 Views on DU: 999

 
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New York City police confronted a crowd of protesters on Broadway on Wednesday night, using batons and pepper spray to force them back from a row of metal barricades erected to protect Wall Street.

Video from the scene shows an officer firing pepper spray into a crowd of demonstrators and journalists while another swings his baton multiple times. The breakaway group of 100 to 200 protesters had reached the barricade with the intent of breaking through to Wall Street.

Earlier in the day, the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, whose range of grievances focuses on wealth inequality and corruption, staged a march of around 5,000 people in and around Zuccotti Park, where the protesters have made their camp.

Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports from New York.

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1. Recipe for Old Fashioned Civil Unrest

Recipe for Old Fashioned Civil Unrest
Boil 2 quarts of materialism. Peel off/discard industrial sector (can substitute cheap sweatshop imports). Add 1 lb. taxes for the poor. Reduce taxes for rich folks/corporations. Bail out banksters floating on top. Marinate consumers with advertising for stuff they can’t afford. Season with credit to taste. Allow food and housing costs to rise. Grease a political casserole with Koch Bros. Grassroots B.S. Infuse rouse with Republican Tea Party. Solidify political paralysis. Spice with celebrities. Bake @365 in FOX News Cauldron for 24/7. Serve piping hot. Discard unwanted leftovers ASAP. (BridgeBlog)

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