Occupy S.F. seeks to disrupt Financial District
Ending weeks of relative dormancy, Occupy San Francisco activists hope to disrupt business as usual in the Financial District on Friday with marches, demonstrations and flash mobs.
Organizers plan to muster participants at more than two dozen locations from the early morning into the evening, and say protesters are busing in from as far away as Washington, D.C., for the action.
The daylong protest is timed to coincide with the two-year anniversary Saturday of the Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which allowed corporations the same rights as people in spending money on politics. Occupiers say the decision exacerbated the gap between rich and poor, their core rallying cause, by handing too much power to business titans.
In addition to picketing at the doorsteps of Wells Fargo, Bank of America and other financial institutions, activists plan a noon rally at the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Seventh and Mission streets.
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