At
Occupy
Wall Street,
Baldwin Flacks
for Capital
One, Of Chase
&
Desperate
Housewives
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
WALL
STREET,
October 8 --
In Zuccotti
Park on
Saturday
night, there
was
drumming and
tombstones for
the
Glass-Steagall
Act. There
were police
on all four
corners with
bullhorns, and
busses of
tourists
rolling
past on
Broadway
snapping
pictures.
Earlier
at a
General
Assembly in
Washington
Square Park, a
self-described
banker
told the crowd
to max out
their credit
cards to get
an education,
and
then not pay
it back. The
bankers, he
said, are
living in
million
dollar
condominium
and don't need
your money.
In
the days after
the October 5
labor march
and late night
Wall Street
action
complete
with pepper
spray and
batons,
there's been
increasing
focus on who
supports
Occupy Wall
Street. Obama,
Nancy Pelosi,
even Federal
Reserve
Board
chairman Ben
Bernanke
saying he
understands.
Is this
the death or
new stage of
the movement?
For
Inner City
Press at
least, the
hunger for
celebrities at
Occupy Wall
Street is
troubling.
Alec Baldwin,
for example,
tweeted Friday
that despite
Occupy Wall
Street,
Capital One is
still a good
partner.
Really? Even
the Fed has
held three
hearing on
Capital One's
rip-off of
consumers,
considering
its
application to
buy ING DIRECT
and HSBC's
subprime
credit cards.
In
Zuccotti Park
Saturday
night, a sign
lay on the
ground about
Capital One
abusive
calling a
borrower up to
ten times a
day. This is what Capital
One
does, but
Alec Baldwin
doesn't seem
to care. He
like Jimmy
Fallon,
both
considered
liberals, take
Capital One's
money to
advertise for
them.
In
Zuccotti Park
on Oct 8, 2011
re Cap One,
Baldwin not
show (c) MRLee
Some
in Zuccotti
Park,
meanwhile, are
happy for
visits by
celebrities,
whether
feel-good
spiritualists
who moonlight
with the UN or
otherwise.
A
close observer
likened some
of those in
Zuccotti Park
to the
Desparate
Housewifes in
suburban New
Jersey -- they
are paid to
keep the home
fires burning,
to "look
good." But
look good
then: much is
made online of
a protester
defecating on
an NYPD squad
car.
Inner
City Press'
view, after
the arrests of
October 1 and
the ad hoc
moves on Wall
Street October
5, is that
some keep up
residence in
the park to
keep
the momentum
going, but the
energy comes
from outside
for real
marches, best
when
challenging
the physical
symbols of the
crisis:
JPMorgan
Chase,
Goldman Sachs,
further uptown
Citigroup.
Desperate
Housewives
indeed. Watch
this site.
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