Posted on 11/17/2011 6:16:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. on Thursday to mark two months since the movement's birth and signal they aren't ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police. Hundreds of people were arrested, most of them in New York.
The demonstrations — which took place in cities including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, Washington and Portland, Ore. — were for the most part peaceful. Most of the arrests were for blocking streets, and the traffic disruptions were brief.
Chanting "All day, all week, shut down Wall Street," more than 1,000 protesters gathered near the New York Stock Exchange and sat down in several intersections...
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I didn’t see any around here but a kid about 8 years old stop in the alley and talk to my dog over the fence for a few minutes.
That’s about the extent of the hustle and bustle around here.
Isn't that the sign on the aircraft sh*tter?
“You’re gay! You’re weak! You can’t shut down Wall Street!”
I sort of enjoyed the part where they went to protest city hall and got the Education Department building instead. It’d make a great Monty Python sketch with the marchers chanting “march to city hall” at first, followed by “now we’re really marching to city hall”.
Or maybe just, “we’re complete morons”.
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