{"id":4902,"date":"2011-10-03T15:18:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2011-10-04T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T13:13:16","slug":"a-movement-grows-on-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/03\/a-movement-grows-on-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"A movement grows on Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Protests are catching on. This morning I heard Cokie Roberts say she’d seen protesters in Spokane, Washington over the weekend. Our Canadian newswire reported that a group calling itself\u00a0 “Occupy Toronto Market Exchange” is planning to march on Bay Street Oct. 15.<\/p>\n

The AP reported that 700 protesters were arrested Saturday after they blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n

Our cartoonist, Marquil<\/a>,\u00a0 pictures things this way today:<\/p>\n

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The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports the protesters are now camped out in a nearby park:<\/p>\n

As anti-Wall Street protests spread from New York to other U.S. cities, the activists beginning their third week inside a Lower Manhattan park urged participants to dress up as “corporate zombies” on Monday.<\/p>\n

Organizers told the Associated Press that they would hold an anti-police brutality protest on the steps of City Hall, as well as a rally in support of union workers outside Sotheby’s auction house on the Upper East Side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The WSJ reports a website occupytogether.org<\/a> has been instrumental in the “organic” growth of the movement.<\/p>\n

In New York, the protesters initially set out to occupy Wall Street but were rebuffed by police. Instead, the group set up in a nearby park, keeping the “Occupy Wall Street” moniker. The spread to other cities appears largely organic\u2014the protests don’t have a central organizer\u2014and the idea came from a Canadian magazine and grew on social media websites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The site is in the midst of a major reorganization right now, it says, because the number of groups and “occupations”\u00a0 across the country is growing “exponentially.”\u00a0 They’ve got a Facebook page, too of course.In new York, “occupy” is listing groups in a mix of cities: Albany, Rochester, Binghamton, Ithaca and Utica.<\/p>\n

Among the mostly young protesters’\u00a0 grievances:<\/p>\n

bank executives received “exorbitant” bonuses not long after receiving taxpayer bailouts and companies have “poisoned the food supply through negligence” and “continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate better pay and safer working conditions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think? Are you with them? Or…?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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