"Occupy Wall Street" Creates a Movement with Labor and Community Support Despite Police Repression.
Occupy Wall Street, the movement whose organizational forms and demands are evolving continues to pick up support including organized labor. Transport Union Local 100, hospitals Local 1199, city workers' DC 37 AFSCME, UAW Local 2110, Teamster Local 814 and building service workers Local 32-BJ were just some of the unions which pledged solidarity at a massive support rally in NYC which drew tens of thousands. An earlier rally saw thousands march from the newly renamed "Liberty Square" on Wall Street to Police Plaza over what they view as excessive force and unfair treatment by the police. The foundation of "Occupy Wall Street" is recognition the richest 1% own more than half of this country's wealth while 1 in 5 in New York City live in poverty. Instead of bailing out people and helping them get jobs, government bailed out the same institutions that had created the economic crisis, giving them trillions of dollars. Occupy Wall Street" continues to grow and represent the 99% of the have nots against the have mores and more as they march and rally and gain more adherents across the city, the nation and the world.
produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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