Wall Street Protest Begins, With Demonstrators Blocked Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesProtestors gathered in Lower Manhattan for what some called the United States Day of Rage. For months the protesters had planned to descend on Wall Street on a Saturday and occupy parts of it as an expression of anger over a financial system that they say favors the rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary citizens. As it turned out, the demonstrators found much of their target off limits on Saturday as the city shut down sections of Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall well before their arrival. By 10 a.m., metal barricades manned by police officers ringed the blocks of Wall Street between Broadway and William Street to the east. Organizers, promoters and supporters called the day, which had been widely discussed on Twitter and other social media sites, simply September 17. Nearby, Micah Chamberlain, 23, a line cook from Columbus, Ohio, held up a sign reading “End the Oligarchy” and said he had hitchhiked to New York.
Daily Job Cuts - Layoff News , Job Layoffs 2012 / 2011 , Bankruptcy, Store closings, Business Economy News DRUDGE REPORT 2012® The Christian Science Monitor Laura's Official Home On The Web Hundreds of protesters descend to 'Occupy Wall Street' - Sep. 17 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Manhattan's financial district on Saturday in a largely peaceful protest aimed at drawing attention to the role powerful financial interests played in wreaking havoc on America's economy. Modeled on the "Arab Spring" uprisings that swept through Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and other countries this year, Occupy Wall Street is a "leaderless resistance movement" orchestrated through Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools. The Twitter hashtags #OccupyWallStreet and #TakeWallStreet lit up Saturday with coordination messages and solidarity tweets. (See CNNMoney's coverage in photos and tweets.) Activist magazine Adbusters spearheaded the event, putting the call out two months ago for participants in a Sept. 17 demonstration in lower Manhattan. "The NYPD is aware of various protests and we have planned accordingly," Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told CNN late Friday. "We thought, why isn't there a backlash here?"
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Ann Coulter - Official Home Page Alex Jones DRUDGE REPORT 2012® Protesters invade NYC Financial District - TODAY News NEW YORK — More than 1,000 demonstrators descended on New York City's Financial District on Saturday for what could be a days-long protest of what they said was corporate greed favoring the rich at the expense of ordinary people. The rally, dubbed #OccupyWallStreet on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook where word was spread, spurred the New York Police Department to lock down Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall, local media reported. Police set up checkpoints to allow only those who could prove they lived or worked on Wall Street to enter, the New York Daily News reported. Pictures posted on Twitter and elsewhere showed police and barricades around the famous bronze Charging Bull statue on lower Broadway at the north end of Bowling Green park. Demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas in Lower Manhattan and said they were determined to stay at least through the weekend so they could confront Wall Street workers on Monday morning. © 2013 msnbc.com
Valentine Cards, Birth Announcements & Birthday Invitations by Tiny Prints William Kristol The crowing by the Obama administration over getting 7 million people to sign up for mandatory health insurance—with some portion actually paying for it—will soon fade. The big picture will remain clear: Obamacare isn’t working. And Americans, who didn’t like Obamacare when the Democrats passed it four years ago, don’t like it now, don’t want it to remain, and doubt it can be fixed. According to Real Clear Politics, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll of registered voters was the 111th consecutive poll to find more opposition to Obamacare than support for it. That same WSJ/NBC News poll, however, also asked whether people would vote for a Democratic congressional candidate “who supports fixing and keeping” Obamacare or a Republican candidate “who supports repealing and eliminating it.” So Americans are ambivalent about whether to try to “fix” this “bad idea” or simply eliminate it. But it also asked the following question: Moreover, this is a Main Street majority.
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