Occupy Goldman Sachs today results in arrests-12-12-2011
Up-date from Zero Hedge via Twitter posts on Occupy wall street forum: Protesters entered the atrium of the World Financial Centre https://twitter.com/#!/PennyRed/status/146245871087001601 ...a little more than a block away from Goldman's 200 West Street building, and were arrested after police instructed them to leave. A NYPD spokesperson could not confirm the number of arrests yet or the charges, just that arrests have in fact been made. One tweeter for the protesters puts the number at 68...
Https://twitter.com/#!/MarchDCJan17/status/146252907271041024 ...and the person manning the Twitter account for #OccupyWallStNYC has been arrested...https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyWallStNYC/status/146262497589071872 ...along with a livestreamer. http://bambuser.com/channel/Roastcauliflower/broadcast/2206210
Occupy wall Street is in full gear today as they go Squidding at Goldman Sachs.The term "Squid" refers to the Matt Taibbi article in Rolling Stone referring to Goldman as the "Giant Vampire Squid". More more information on Goldman Sachs see our post here: The recovery-A lie to insure bondage to the new Oligarchy and scroll down to the bottom portion i f you do not feel like reading the whole post.
By Matthew Russell Lee
BATTERY PARK CITY, December 12 -- As police stood off in front of Goldman Sachs with Occupy Wall Street protesters, ultimately making arrests, the crowd chanted "Crooks and thieves, protected by police."
A mock press conference was held, in which faux reporters holding Fox News signs asked a woman dressed as a squid about Goldman Sachs' business. Video here, and embedded below.
When a final question asked about billions of dollars in bonuses Goldman has paid its executive after receiving bail out funds, the squid refused to answer. The crowd chanted, "Calamari." Inner City Press was threatened with arrest by the police.
Even before the financial meltdown in 2008, Bronx-based Fair Finance Watch had protested Goldman Sachs applications for regulatory approval, based on Goldmans' support for and securitization of predatory mortgage loans.
When Goldman wanted a bail out, it was allowed by the Federal Reserve to form a bank on an emergency basis to receive the money, without any public comment.
Inner City Press has asked senior Fed officials about this, only to be told they think that the time to review banks' Community Reinvestment Act record is not during mergers. But that's the only enforcement of the CRA.
The protest was in solidarity with moves to shut the ports in Oakland and elsewhere on the West Coast. A flier distributed said that "port truckers organizing a union at SSA terminals in Los Angeles have been fired; SSA is responsible for inhumane working conditions and gross exploitation of port trucks and is owned by Goldman Sachs."
After the squid press conference, protesters moved across the street to the Winter Garden atrium of the World Financial Center, run by Brookfield Properties which requested the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, re-named Liberty Square. It's a small world in Lower Manhattan.
Across the East River in Long Island City, Queens, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Obama administration's DHHS appeared, in the name of jobs, with the CEO of American Express and Katherine Wydle of the Rockefeller-founded NYC Partnership, a defender of banks. That's a small world too.Add to Technorati Favorites
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