Protesters Begin Effort to ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (with link to live feed)

[cali]

By Dean Schabner


Protesters are gathering on Wall Street today in a movement they call “Occupy Wall Street.”

As of noon, hundreds of protesters gathered at Bowling Green Park in Manhattan, home of the iconic charging bull in New York’s Financial District as they prepare to “take the bull by the horns,” as said on a flyer advertising the event.

“The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%,” said a statement on the website Occupy Wall Street.

According to statements on the website, the movement, an offshoot of online magazine AdBusters, is angered by what it calls the principle of “profit over and above all else,” which it says has dominated not only America’s economic policies, but also the way in which Americans view culture and humanity.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/09/protesters-begin-effort-to-occupy-wall-street/

Occupy Wall St link: (they have a live feed up)

https://occupywallst.org/

[FarCenter]

1. Pointless -- nothing happens on Wall Street

Since 9/11, most of the large firms, and especially the data centers where the trading actually takes place, have been moved out of Wall Street.

[valerief]

2. I wonder if they've been offshored to another continent. nt

[FarCenter]

5. I believe that you need trading rooms in the Americas, Europe, and Asia

So that you can be open whenever any of the global markets are open. Some Middle Eastern markets are also open on the weekends.

[Imajika]

3. I assume it is supposed to be symbolic...

I've got to believe the protesters don't actually believe they are going to have any actual impact on trading.

[ellenfl]

4. especially since there's no trading on saturday. eom

[FarCenter]

6. According to a story on Bloomberg, they intend to set up a "tent city"

Should be invigorating in about a month.

[Imajika]

7. I'll believe it when I see it...

This isn't the first time protesters have tried to "occupy" Wall Street and it rarely lasts long.

[FarCenter]

8. "propaganda of the deed" has been tried before

See Galleanist anarchists.