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Someone earlier asked what people were protesting about. It seems fairly clear from what they are saying:
"John Hildebrand, 24, an unemployed teacher from Norman, Oklahoma, sat up in his sleeping bag around 10 a.m. He said he arrived Saturday after getting a cheap plane ticket to New*York.
"My issue is corporate influence in politics," he said. "I would like to eliminate corporate financing from*politics."
"One supporter, William Stack, sent an email to city officials urging that all charges be dropped against those*arrested.
"It is not a crime to demand that our money be spent on meeting people's needs, not for massive corporate bailouts," he wrote. "The real criminals are in the boardrooms and executive offices on Wall Street, not the people marching for jobs, health care, and a moratorium on*foreclosures."
"Jackie Fellner, a marketing manager from Westchester County, north of the city, said she has an issue with "big money dictating which politicians get elected and what programs get*funded."
Wall St. protesters dress as 'corporate zombies' - Houston Chronicle
"they speak against corporate greed, social inequality, global climate change and other concerns."
"The growing, national movement “signals a shift in consciousness,” said Jared Schy, a young man sitting squeezed between three others who participated in Saturday’s march from Manhattan’s Financial District to the bridge"
"On Sunday, a group of New York public school teachers sat in the plaza, including Denise Martinez of Brooklyn. Most students at her school live at or below the poverty level, and her classes are jammed with up to about 50 students.
“These are America’s future workers, and what’s trickling down to them are the problems — the unemployment, the crime,” she said. She blamed Wall Street for causing the country’s financial problems and said it needed to do more to solve them."
Wall St. protests grow and spread | Protesters speak out against corporate influence on politics
"John Hildebrand, 24, an unemployed teacher from Norman, Oklahoma, sat up in his sleeping bag around 10 a.m. He said he arrived Saturday after getting a cheap plane ticket to New*York.
"My issue is corporate influence in politics," he said. "I would like to eliminate corporate financing from*politics."
"One supporter, William Stack, sent an email to city officials urging that all charges be dropped against those*arrested.
"It is not a crime to demand that our money be spent on meeting people's needs, not for massive corporate bailouts," he wrote. "The real criminals are in the boardrooms and executive offices on Wall Street, not the people marching for jobs, health care, and a moratorium on*foreclosures."
"Jackie Fellner, a marketing manager from Westchester County, north of the city, said she has an issue with "big money dictating which politicians get elected and what programs get*funded."
Wall St. protesters dress as 'corporate zombies' - Houston Chronicle
"they speak against corporate greed, social inequality, global climate change and other concerns."
"The growing, national movement “signals a shift in consciousness,” said Jared Schy, a young man sitting squeezed between three others who participated in Saturday’s march from Manhattan’s Financial District to the bridge"
"On Sunday, a group of New York public school teachers sat in the plaza, including Denise Martinez of Brooklyn. Most students at her school live at or below the poverty level, and her classes are jammed with up to about 50 students.
“These are America’s future workers, and what’s trickling down to them are the problems — the unemployment, the crime,” she said. She blamed Wall Street for causing the country’s financial problems and said it needed to do more to solve them."
Wall St. protests grow and spread | Protesters speak out against corporate influence on politics
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