New York, NY – Clergy To Join Forces With “Occupy Wall Street” Protesters

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    Small child at Occupy Wall St. Photo: Jimmy JusticeNew York, NY – The “Occupy Wall Street protestors” are remaining in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, and members of the clergy are expected to join the effort later today.

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    Demonstrators organizing the day’s events at a so-called “general assembly” today, and a large demonstration is scheduled for tomorrow.

    Protestors held a peaceful march up to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village yesterday.

    Police say there were no arrests yesterday, compared to the past two Saturdays, when hundreds of protesters were arrested.

    Demonstrators told NY1 this morning that they remain part of the protest to keep sharing their message.

    “For the most part, the only thing we all have in common is we want equality. We all come from very different backgrounds, very different economic strides, everything. It’s not fair,” said one protester. “There’s so many people that don’t have anything to eat and they’re buying $200 lunches, and we’re paying for it.”

    “Message is, you know, I was a business owner and lost my business because of the economy. My dad’s house is in foreclosure because of the economy and being taken away from him right now, and there’s just too much money in too little pockets,” said another.

    Protesters last night eventually headed back to Zuccotti Park after several hours at Washington Square Park, which closed to the public at midnight.


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    eighthcomment
    eighthcomment
    12 years ago

    Ok, what exactly do they want us to do? I am still confused. Do they want the socialism? Communism? And end to capitalism where the incentives and entrepreneurship is gone? I don’t understand how we fix this problem…all I know is that they had some egyptian fellow from Tahir square speak yesterday and compare it to egypt…now this is after I thought in egypt they were fighting for capitalism…it seems this is a movement by the young and stupid and a few old and powerful to change america- let’s hope they don’t succeed- I have a feeling these are the same anti Israel, zionist haters and u don’t have to be einstein to realize what’s going on. Us Jews have had a good 70 years….

    Mark Levin
    Mark Levin
    12 years ago

    Typical socialist liberal IDIOTS!!!

    If not for companies we would be no place! Let me know when they stop using ANYTHING made by a company.

    They are vermin!

    JustCommonSense
    JustCommonSense
    12 years ago

    What do these demonstrators really want? They claim they want jobs with a decent wage.

    I see them as a bunch of frustrated greedy loosers. Here’s why.

    The world has and always will have people earning and owning more than others. At what point does that become unfair?

    Do all Union jobs pay the same? Some make several times what others make! Is that fair? Sould the waiter or taxi driver make the same as the electrical or nuclear engineer?

    Now today’s corporations and the people who run them are under tremendous pressure to make profits for their investors. You might not own stock, but if you believe you deserve a job that can pay you a pension, where do you think that money will come from? From investments!

    Rich CEO’s also loose jobs. Just look around recently how HP’s CEO’s lost their jobs because the boards weren’t happy with them.

    Yes, CEO’s make much more money but they’re worth it. You know why, because the corporation couldn’t find a more qualified person for less, otherwise they would have done so.

    The real reason job seekers don’t get hired is either because there is no need for the skills they’re have, or it can be gotten for less.

    To fix the problem, is to be flexible and find niches that are in demand.

    Nobody wants to buy the corporations old products, they have to keep re-inventing themselves constantly and for less and so does the job seeker.

    In essence a job is like being a small businessman providing services to the larger business. If they need your service and you’re competetive, you get get it, otherwise you stay unemployed.

    Unfortunately there’s is no free lunches, and they don’t deserve any.

    Charity is something else. Let them demonstrate for charity, not for rights that nobody ever gave them.

    HaNavon
    HaNavon
    12 years ago

    They don’t disagree with the ideas of having companies, they disagree with the idea of having immoral, evil companies that lobby the gov’t to be able to do whatever they want with no conscience….

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    12 years ago

    Sherry very well said and the truth. Luck for us that it is not publicized that the head of Lehman and AIG both are are of the covenant of Abraham, total disregard of fiduciary trust, or high tech thievery

    BogusMilsky
    BogusMilsky
    12 years ago

    I once lost my business almost lost my house, now I am a millionare and I am able to support other people who are unfortunate and support organizations that give me the kovod I deserve. I feel their pain but they shouldn’t have a right to be upset that I live in a mansion and drive a Lexus.

    honestbroker
    honestbroker
    12 years ago

    Here’s another group of people with too much time on there hands !!!!

    12 years ago

    Wall Street is being used as a scapegoat for the Obama administration to explain away all of this countries problems.

    Please explain:

    1. How was Wall Street responsible for the recession? It certainly wasn’t the cause of it. There were people earning $80k a year, applying for $1 million dollar mortgages backed by their $750k house. Did they really think that was a smart thing to do?

    2. I feel bad for people with student loans, but did they not consider the possibility of not being able to pay back those loans once out of college? That was always a risk. How is it Wall Street’s fault?

    3. Most surprising, why do people thing Wall Street is responsible for the stock market decline? Who came up with the idea that Wall Street traders control the stock market, or further that they’d want it to plummet?

    This whole thing makes no sense.

    FrumGer613
    FrumGer613
    12 years ago

    Ultimately this is so typical of Edom, its almost funny, here are people claiming to speak for hashem and spirituality, but it is of course, all about getting paid and getting what they want, not what hashem wants.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    12 years ago

    The poster Corp. Lehman Brother’s had a subsidiary in Germany which went pleite or bankrupt and a story appeared in the Spiegel of an elderly lady who had lost her investment and of having committed suicide. The story about Lehman and the immensity of losses identified the original Lehman [correctly] as a “Jewish immigrant” from Germany . Mark Levin you can be proud of Fuld and his failure and the rest of the default certificates peddled by Wall Street.

    PinnyMeir
    PinnyMeir
    12 years ago

    No two of these protesters are protesting for the same reason or cause.

    They will accomplish NOTHING.

    A year from now, people will say ‘Hey, remember when they had those protests at Wall Street?’ – and the answer will be ‘Yeah. I think I remember. What was that about again???’