Given the current conversation, I think this is appropriate. Also, I
find the complete lack of news coverage in the US to be noteworthy.
Barry
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15051554
25 September 2011 Last updated at 06:06 ET
Anti-Wall Street protesters arrested in New York
The protesters' placards carried demands about a range of causes
At least 80 people have been arrested during an anti-Wall Street march
in New York's financial district.
Several hundred people took part in Saturday's march, which was
intended to draw attention to "corporate greed and corrupt politics"
in the US.
Participants carried banners supporting a range of other issues,
including healthcare reform, an end to US wars and the scrapping of
the death penalty.
The march came after a week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street
campaign.
The loosely organised group says it is defending 99% of the US
population against the wealthiest 1%, and had called for 20,000 people
to "flood into lower Manhattan" on 17 September and remain there for
"a few months".
Protesters, who are mostly young, initially numbered some 1,500 but
their numbers had fallen to about 200 by Saturday's march.
There was a heavy security presence in the district, with police
deploying nets to block off major roads including Fifth Avenue and to
protect the New York Stock Exchange.
Corporate 'enemy'
One protester, 21-year-old Ryan Reed, said he joined in "because what
I see - and what I feel most people in this country see - is an
economy and a system that's collapsing".
Police said most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct
"The enemy is the big business leaders of Wall Street, the big oil
company leaders, the coal company leaders, the big military industrial
leaders."
A number of placards also called for "justice for Troy Davies", the US
man executed in Georgia last week amid widespread criticism.
Police said most of Saturday's arrests were for disorderly conduct and
blocking traffic, but one person was charged with assaulting a police
officer. One officer also suffered a shoulder injury, said police.
They have not commented on protest organisers' comments that there had
been an "unprecedented level of police aggression" on display.
A statement on the Occupy Wall Street website said the protesters have
"an interest in returning the US back into the hands of its individual
citizens".
"Our nation, our species and our world are in crisis. The US has an
important role to play in the solution, but we can no longer afford to
let corporate greed and corrupt politics set the policies if our
nation."
Inspired by urban occupations in cities including Madrid, Cairo and
Tunisia, they have said they will camp out in Zuccotti Park, a private
park near the financial district, until their demands are met._______________________________________________
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