the signs

“APATHY IS FOR ASSHOLES”
“TAX WALL STREET LEECHES”
“They Got a Bailout. We Got Sold Out.”
“**** GOOGLE”
“TURN WALL STREET INTO TAHRIR SQUARE”
“Something has gone wrong in America. We will not be silent”
“Hedge Funds Win When Pensioners Lose”
“STOP ROBBING THE MIDDLE CLASS TO PAY THE RICH”
“It’s my money and I need it now!”
“TAX THE RICH A LOT!”
“RAGING GRANNIES W/THEIR DAUGHTERS”
“WALL STREET WHITE MEN YOU NO LONGER RUN THE UNIVERSE”
“ARREST THE KOCH BROTHERS”
“HEY BANKERS! YOU BREAK IT, YOU PAY FOR IT”
“NO BONUSES FOR THE BAILED OUT”
“QUICK! SELL EVERYTHING AND INVEST IN PEPPER SPRAY’
“BUY STOCKS NOT POLITICIANS”
“GREED IS AN ADDICTION”
“EAT THE RICH”
“I AM HERE TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY”
“AMERICAN NURSES SUPPORT OCCUPY WALL STREET”
“FARMERS FOR CLEAN FOOD. NO GMO”
“ENOUGH IT ENOUGH”
“BAN FRACKING NOW”
“LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF MADISON”
“STOP THE CUNY TUITION HIKES”
“JP MORGAN IS A KLEPTOMANIAC”
“STOP REWARDING FAILURE. GOLDEN SHOWERS NOT GOLDEN PARACHUTES”
“ERIC CANTOR: AMERICA’S CANCER”
“THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE”
“WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET?”
“DEVELOP YOUR EMPATHY’
“SUPPORT OUR KIDS”
“FED UP? WANT CHANGE? TAKE ACTION NOW”
“NOT SO FAST YOU GREEDY BASTARDS”
“WHERE ARE MY TAX BREAKS?”
“Capitalism is not healthy for children and other living things”
“OPEN YOUR EYES. THIS IS THE REVOLUTION!”
“I’m all about that 99%. BUTT!!”
“OBAMA = BUSH”
“I’M YOUNG EDUCATED AND ANGRY’
“Due to recent budget cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.”
“CRIME PAYS IN THE USA, ON WALL STREET”
“REGULATE MARKETS, FREE PEOPLE.’
“LISTEN TO THE WARRENS”
“MARX WAS RIGHT”
“BILLIONAIRES YOUR TIME IS UP”
“IMPEACH OBAMA. PROTECTOR OF WALL STREET PARASITE CRIMINALS”
“ANOTHER TRUST FUND BABY FOR THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH”
“Tax and regulation irrational exuberance”
“DON’T MACE ME BRO. MY MOM IS HERE”
“Bankers are Cylons”
“This is SO not over”
“MAKE LOVE”
“OCCUPY EVERYTHING”
“ROBIN HOOD WAS RIGHT”
“I’M A BORN-AGAIN AMERICAN”
“JP MORGAN BOUGHT THE NYPD”
“I AGREE”
“JOIN US SAVE OUR REPUBLIC”
“PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS”
“WAKE UP”
“IMMIGRANTS ARE THE 99%”
“One Nation Under Greed”
“DECOLONIZE WALL STREET’
“WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT THE FUTURE”
“END SUBSIDIES TO BIG AGRICULTURE”
“I’m self-employed and can’t afford healthcare. I am the 99%”
“JAIL THE BANKERS”
“DREAM BIG!”
“They bought off Washington and gave us the TAB”
“I’m just another homeless hippie living off my parents’ trust fund. Ignore me no more.”
“EXPROPRIATE THE EXPROPRIATORS’
“LET THEM EAT BIG MACS”
“We Know Who Our Enemies Are”
“I Participate. You Participate. He Participates. We Participate. THEY PROFIT”
“LESS KOCH MORE COCK”
“GOLDMAN SUCKS”
“READ MY LIPS: TAX THE RICH”
“WELCOME BACK TO THE FIGHT. THIS TIME I KNOW OUR SIDE WILL WIN.”
“GUILTY BANKERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL”
“END THE FED”
“GIVE MY PROFESSOR HEALTH INSURANCE”
“WALL STREET BANK ROBBERS LOOT THE PUBLIC”
“JESUS WAS THE 99%”
“DON’T ARREST PROTESTORS”
“Our politicians are the priesthood of capitalism”
“BOEHNER&CANTOR: GREEDY BANKSTERS”
“MY KIDS AREN’T PAYING FOR YOUR BONUS”
“The Obama we thought we had elected would be here with us, not ignoring us.”
“DOCTORS FOR THE 99%”
“END CORPORATE FACISM”
“GENTLEMEN AGAINST GREED”
“YOU CAN’T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME”
“GREED IS BAD”
“I’m Mad as Hell”
“PROTECT THE COMMONS”
“Hands off Social Security”
“KICK ‘M IN THE JUNK BONDS”
“SAVE A HORSE. RIDE A BANKER”
“WOMEN UNITED AGAINST REPUBLICAN/TEA PARTY SCUM”
“THE MIDDLE CLASS IS TOO BIG TO FAIL”
“DE-PRIVATIZE DEMOCRACY”
“CART WHEELS FOR JUSTICE”
“Corporations are people too?”
“CITIBANK CRIMINALS”
“WE MARCH FOR HOPE NOT HATE”
“ARE WE GOING TO LET A BUNCH OF GREEDY SELFISH FOOLS DO IN THE WHOLE PLANET?”
“TEAR DOWN THIS WALL STREET”
“THE MONETARY SYSTEM IS THE PROBLEM”
“Give Power Back to the People”
“THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED. BUT IT WILL BE LIVESTREAMED, TWEETED, YOUTUBED, AND FACEBOOKED”
“WE ARE THE 99%”
“HEY BANKS. STOP USING THE $s I DEPOSIT TO SCREW MY NEIGHBOR”
“WISE OWLS SEEK ECONOMIC JUSTICE FOR ALL”
“PUPPETEERS BEFORE PROFIT”
“OBAMA. TIME TO WALK THE WALK”
“MONEY FOR SCHOOLS NOT WAR”
“Where is George Bailey when you need him? We’re done with Pottersville.”
“WEED NOT GREED”
“WORKING CLASS AND PISSED OFF”
“PARADIGM SHIFT NOW”
“FORECLOSE BLANKFEIN”
“I OWE SALLIE MAE $25,123.91”
“DROP COPS NOT BOMBS”
“LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE”
“I AM NOT PATRIARCHY’S BITCH”
“Wall Stree: ‘The love of money is the root of all evil.’ Jesus”
“TAKE THIS TEA PARTY”
“WITHOUT MONEY WE’D ALL BE RICH”
“CORPORATIONS ARE PSYCHOPATHS. HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE”
“The free market keeps giving me the invisible finger”
“POWER TO THE PEACEFUL”
” ‘The most important political office is that of private citizen,’ Louis Brandeis”
“BUFFET’S SECRETARY”
“ARAB SPRING, WALL STREET FALL’
“Both parties are beholden to corporate $. I want my voice back.”
“STANDING UP FOR THE CHANGE WE VOTED FOR”
“JOIN THE REVOLUTION”
“SEX WORKERS AGAINST CAPITALISM”
“FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS TAX TODAY”
“USA IS NOT FOR SALE”
“WARREN BUFFET IS SMARTER THAN YOU”
“BILLIONS FOR BANKERS, CUTBACKS FOR WORKERS. HELL NO!”
“WALL STREET NEEDS AN ENEMA. FULL OF CRAP!”
“JUILLIARD STUDENTS SUPPORT OCCUPY WALL STREET”
“WALL STREET HAS THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTIO

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Anti-Wall Street Protesters March FromNYC to San Francisco
October 06, 2011, 10:51 AM EDTRecommend6
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By Esmé E. Deprez and Alison Vekshin
(Updates with arrests under “Sea of Tarps” subhead.)
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Demonstrators from NewYork City to San Francisco took to the streets to protest what they call a growing wealth disparity between large U.S. corporations and average citizens in the wake of the financial crisis.
Picketers marched yesterday as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began three weeks ago in Lower Manhattan and has spread across the U.S. The New York crowdwas estimated at 10,000,according to Patrick Bruner, a spokesman for the effort.
“There’s power in numbers, and we outnumber the people we’re trying to hold accountable,” said HenryLiedtka, a 27- year-old pharmacy worker from New Jersey who said he’s protested since Oct. 2. “We should be bailing out the American public -- not corporations -- by raising the minimum wage, bringing jobs back from overseas and improving labor conditions.”
Protesters criticized the government for propping up hobbled financial giants, including Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp., with a $700 billiontaxpayer-funded bailout in 2008, while leaving Americans to struggle with unemployment, depressed wages, soaring foreclosure ratesand slashed retirement savings.
“We bailed them out andthey are not lending the money,” JoAnn Herr, 60, a retired sheet-metal worker from Oakland, California, said in an interview yesterday outside the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, where a march through downtown formed. “They are just holding onto it, giving themselves bigger bonuses and not paying their fair share of taxes.”
Union Support
U.S. labor unions are supporting the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations with rallies next week because the protests have tapped into the anger of unemployed Americans, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said yesterday.
“We’re not going to try to usurp them,” Trumka, leader of the nation’s largest labor federation, said on a conference callwith reporters. “We’ll support them around the country and we’ll continue to work collectively with one another.”
In New York, members ofNational Nurses United, the profession’s largest U.S. union; Transport Workers Union Local 100, the biggest labor organization in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Working Families Party, a coalition of communityorganizations, marched to Wall Street from Foley Square, north of City Hall.
The Transport union “applauds the courage of the young people on Wall Street,” the union said on its website. “Workers and ordinary citizens are putting up all the sacrifice, and the financiers who implodedour economy are gettingaway scot-free.”
‘People Losing Hope’
Laurence Fink, the chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, said he understands the concerns of the protesters.
“These are not lazy people sitting around looking for something todo,” Fink, 58, said yesterday during an event in Toronto. “We have people losing hopeand they’re going into the street, whether it’s justified or not.”
Not everyone watching the march near Wall Street yesterday supported the protesters.
“They’re just a bunch of wacko leftists trying to get on TV,” said Onel Delorb, 33, an unemployed office worker from the Bronx. “It’s my fault that I’m notdoing anything for work. It’s not government’s fault.”
He said the demonstrators undermined their credibility by carrying iPhones and iPads made by Apple Inc., which is valued at $350 billion.
Sea of Tarps
Since Sept. 17, thousands of protesters have transformed New York’s Zuccotti Park, near the site of the World Trade Center, into a sea of blue tarps, sleeping bags and tablesoffering free medical care, food and library books. Their signs and slogans oppose everything from bank bailouts and corporate influence in politics to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and insufficient job prospects.
New York police arrested23 people yesterday, mainly for disorderly conduct, said Paul Browne, deputy police commissioner. Last weekend, police halted a march over the Brooklyn Bridge and took about 700 activists into custody.
In San Francisco, demonstrators set up a camp of tents on a half-block stretch of Market Street outside the Federal Reserve building, where some have been meditating and playing guitars.
Mark Schwetz, 36, a carpenter from Berkeley who lost his home in Petaluma, California, to foreclosure in 2009, helda sign reading, “We’re not leaving!”
“I’ve been waiting for this moment, for this dayfor a long time now,” Schwetz said. “I worked really hard for my wholelife for my home and it was just taken away from me.”
Movement Spreads
According to an Occupation Status Board at Zuccotti Park, the movement has spread toat least 147 cities in the U.S. and 28 overseas, andnetted $35,000 in donations. The website www.occupytogether.orglisted events planned in more than 45 states and in cities including Boston, Chicago, Denver and Seattle.
The Occupy Wall Street coalition has the potential to become the “Tea Party of the Left” if the protesters can transform their disparate list of grievances into targetedpolicy prescriptions, saidBrayden King, who’s written on social and political movements at Northwestern University.
Tea Party
“They have to figure out what it is they are about,in order to become the force of change in the Democratic Party, like the Tea Party has been in the Republican Party,”King, an assistant professor of management at the Kellogg School of Management, said by telephone from Evanston, Illinois.
The Tea Party, a loosely organized movement opposed to the growing size of government and rising federal spending. Sixty of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representativesnow identify themselves as Tea Party supporters.
“You’re seeing possibly the roots of what may turn into a political partyor at least a political movement that has a voice,” Eric Nielson, 34, aself-described healer, said in an interview yesterday during the march toward San Francisco’s Civic Center.
The protesters stopped at an office building in the Financial District whose tenants include Bank of America, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, to chant, “We are the 99 percent!” and “This is what democracy looks like!”
Anonymous, a group of self-styled hacker-activists behind attacks on corporate and government websites, vowed to support the protests by erasing the New York Stock Exchange “from the Internet” on Oct. 10.
Stock Exchange Threat
The group posted a video message on YouTube declaring war on the stock exchange inretaliation for the arrests of Wall Street protesters. The message didn’t elaborate on the threat or whether it referred only to an attack on the Big Board website, which would have no effect on trading.
Occupy DC, which has an encampment in Washington’s McPhersonSquare, a few blocks north of the White House, is planning a rallytoday, according to its Twitter feed.
Celebrity supporters include activist and filmmaker Michael Moore, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and musician Peter Yarrow of the 1960s-era folk group Peter Paul and Mary.
Sit-ins are planned in at least four cities in Colorado in the coming weeks, according to an Occupy Denver organizer. The group, which hopes to attract 1,000 people for a marchOct. 8, started camping out in front of the state Capitol 11 days ago. Discussion topics among the crowd gathered in Denver last weekend included currency devaluation and the 1913 Federal Reserve Act.
--With assistance from Henry Goldman, Thom Weidlich, Nina Mehta, Ted Richardson, Laura Marcinek and Chris Dolmetsch in New York, Jennifer Oldham in Denver, Blair Euteneuer in Chicago, Tom Moroneyand Michael McDonald inBoston, Holly Rosenkrantz and MichaelRiley in Washington, Amanda J. Crawford in Phoenix, Chris Christoff in Lansing, Christopher Palmeri and Edvard Pettersson in Los Angelesand Matt Walcoff in Toronto. Editors: Pete Young, Ted Bunker
To contact the reporters on this story: Esme E. Deprez in New York at edeprez@bloomberg.net; Alison Vekshin in San Francisco at avekshin@bloomberg.net
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