Anti-Wall Street Protests Spreading to Cities Large and Small

The US citizens in Puerto Rico are also deprived of our US citizens' rights to representation due to corporate greed. Is this a 21st Century American Revolution?

......... MJ



NEW YORK TIMES

By ERIK ECKHOLM and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Published: October 3, 2011
A loose-knit populist campaign that started on Wall Street three weeks ago has spread to dozens of cities across the country, with protesters camped out in Los Angeles near City Hall, assembled before the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago and marching through downtown Boston to rally against corporate greed, unemployment and the role of financial institutions in the economic crisis.

more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/us/anti-wall-street-protests-spread-to-other-cities.html

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Chicago Sun-Times

Associated Press October 3, 2011 7:14AM

Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed.

In Manhattan, hundreds of protesters dressed as “corporate zombies” in white facepaint lurched past the New York Stock Exchange clutching fistfuls of fake money. In Chicago, demonstrators pounded drums in the city’s financial district. Others pitched tents or waved protest signs at passing cars in Boston, St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.

“Our beautiful system of American checks and balances has been thoroughly trashed by the influence of banks and big finance that have made it impossible for the people to speak,” said protester Marisa Engerstrom, of Somerville, Mass., a Harvard doctoral student.
more: http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/8007251-418/wall-street-protests-spread-across-country.html


(Also see: http://occupywallst.org/)