Manhattan, NY – Planned back-to-back protests on Tuesday and Wednesday by some of the city’s most seasoned agitators will look to build on the energy of the Occupy Wall Street movement to advance union campaigns by workers across the five boroughs.
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The coalition of labor, community and advocacy groups that organized last week’s 15,000-person march to support the protest in lower Manhattan is planning a “Millionaires March” for Tuesday afternoon that will visit homes of some of the city’s wealthiest residents. JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire businessman David Koch, financier Howard Milstein, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and hedge fund maven John Paulson are all expected to receive visits at their homes.
The march, put together by the Working Families Party, New York Communities for Change, Strong Economy for All and United NY, will call for an extension of the state millionaire’s tax, which is set to expire at the end of the year. The march kicks off from 59th Street and Fifth Avenue and is expected to draw protesters from the three-and-a-half week old Wall Street protest out of their encampment in lower Manhattan to the tony Upper East Side.
On Wednesday, the largest private sector union in the country, SEIU 32BJ, will try its hand. It is expecting thousands of property service workers and other union members to march on the Financial District in a call for good jobs. The march will kick off 32BJ’s campaign for a new contract for 25,000 commercial office building cleaners to replace one that expires Dec. 31.
Let them continue on to Bloomberg’s townhouse. Maybe he will invite them in for lunch.
Obama gathered Illinois people to go to a banker’s houseto protest for mortgages+ financial crisis
When did it become a sin to make money in this country. Tell these commies to do something productive with themselves instead of being a debt to society.
Does anyone know what these protesters wants, do they think Jamie Dimon is going to write them a check to split amongst themselves?
Can’t they do a favor and stop in front of donald trumps house??!!
This sounds like a real escalation of what theyn have on their agenda.Staering to look like the Nazi protests in Germany where they singlre out certain people.
There is no excuse for this behavior. Most CEO’s are perfectly normal people and there is nothing wrong with being successful.
That being said, there are many CEO’s and corporate ‘giants’ who used their money to buy off politicians and cause irreparable damage to our nation’s economy and political system. There are Democrats and Republicans whose entire lives have been bankrolled by a select few who obviously demand that legislation be passed to benefit them even if it is at the expense of the rest of us.
However, don’t blame the rich folks who are paying off the politicians, blame the disgusting, corrupt politicians! They are the ones who are rigging the system against the middle class. If our government wasn’t “for sale” we wouldn’t have these problems!
It is time to throw our 2 corrupt parties out!
Forget the arguments about the rich being “job creators”… they aren’t. That’s the big lie of this year. Demand creates jobs, and the middle class has and always will be the driver of demand in this country.
These protesters are right. We are all the victims of corrupt business practices, but the corruption only exists because our politicians are so corrupt.