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alp227

(32,017 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 09:15 PM Jan 2012

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.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/18/BA0R1MR6RG.DTL

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Occupy S.F. seeks to disrupt Financial District (Original Post) alp227 Jan 2012 OP
The hypocrisy is clear. Trillo Jan 2012 #1
If their a person , then they're a dictator orpupilofnature57 Jan 2012 #2

Trillo

(9,154 posts)
1. The hypocrisy is clear.
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 09:17 PM
Jan 2012

It's okay to impose Big Corporate's money on the people, on their legislation, and on their government, selling the general welfare out at any and every possible opportunity. But it's not okay for the people to impose themselves on Big Corporate. Not even once.

Gotcha.

 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
2. If their a person , then they're a dictator
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 09:20 PM
Jan 2012

The Supreme court should be impeached ,for abetting Criminals.

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