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Over over 30,000 New Yorkers took action Thursday, November
17, to demand that U.S. political system must serve
all citizens — not just the wealthy and powerful
few.
November 17, 2011, marks the two-month anniversary
of the Occupy Wall Street movement that started at
Liberty Square in the financial heart of the United
States, and two-day anniversary of New York mayor's
raid of the OWS camp. On the day, several thousand
people assembled at Manhattan's Foley Square and
then marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on a pedestrian
promenade, arrived in the streets near New York Stock
Exchange, and sat down in several intersections,
chanting "All day, all week, shut down Wall
Street!"
"Our political system should serve all
of us — not just the very rich and powerful. Right
now Wall Street owns Washington," said
participant Beka Economopoulos. "We
are the 99% and we are here to reclaim our democracy." (More
at occupywallst.org)
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