After
Arrests, OWS
Testifies in
Times Square,
B of A, Occupy
Won't Go Away
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
TIMES
SQUARE,
December 16 --
After dozens
of arrests in
Duarte
Square
followed by a
march north
shadowed by
police, Occupy
Wall Street
descended on
Times Square
again,
chanting and
testifying in
a sea of
tourists.
"Christmas
is
canceled!" a
marcher yelled
into the
crowd.
"Bloomberg
arrested Santa
Claus!"
The
march stalled
on 44th
Street, with
police on
horses on
either side.
Where to go
next? One long
time Occupier
complained to
Inner City
Press, "I came
to occupy Wall
Street, not
entertain
tourists." A
decision was
taken to
proceed north
to the red
staircase.
There
testimonials
through the
people's mic
began, each
starting with
"I occupy
because."
There was a
surfeit of
idealism:
occupying for
starving
children
overseas and
in the United
States, for
unborn
children, for
Egyptians
blinded by
pepper spray
made in
Pennsylvania.
A
woman said
she'd
come from
unemployed
Spain to
occupy Wall
Street, where
the global
problem
started. As
she spoke a
passing
tourist
shouted, "Get
a
job!"
They
were parallel
universes.
Speaker after
speaker
denounced the
neon
advertisements
towering above
them. "This is
no beauty,"
said one. "I
hate light
pollution said
another," from
Buffalo by way
of
Oregon.
In Times
Square, Bank
of America,
Occupy Won't
Go Away, cops
(c) MRLee,
more photos at
www.twitter.com/innercitypress
Finally
things
turned back to
financial
institutions.
A chant begna,
"Morgan
Stanley, B
of A,
Occupy won't
go away."
Here's hoping.
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this site.
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