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Unions, students join Wall St. protesters
NEW YORK (CBS News) – Unions gave a high-profile boost to the long-running protest against Wall Street and economic inequality, with their members joining thousands of protesters in a lower Manhattan march. Across the country, students at several colleges walked out of classes in solidarity.
People gathered at Foley Square, an area encircled by courthouses and named for “Big Tom” Foley, a former blacksmith’s helper who became a prominent state Democratic leader. From there they marched to Zuccotti Park, the protesters’ unofficial headquarters, where they refueled with snacks and hurriedly painted new signs as the strong scent of burning sage wafted through the plaza.
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Cain: “Jobless and not rich, blame yourself.”
“Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks,” Cain continued. “If you don’t have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!”
Cain said the banks were in part to blame with the 2008 financial crisis, but he said, “We’re not in 2008 — we’re in 2011!” The demonstrations “come across more as anti-capitalism,” he added.
The Occupy Wall Street protests,originally organized by the anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters, started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, thousands across the country have joined.
The protesters say they demonstrating against corporate greed and the outsize influence Wall Street has in Washington. While they weren’t started by pro-Obama groups, supporters of the president like labor unions are now joining the demonstrations.
Romney describes anti-Wall Street protests as “class warfare”
THE VILLAGES, Fla. – Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney compared the current anti-Wall Street protests to “class warfare.”
“I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare,” Romney said to an audience of about 50 people in response to a question about the protests over such issues as high unemployment, home foreclosures and the 2008 corporate bailouts.
The “Occupied Wall Street Journal”
The Occupy Wall Street protest group recently published the first edition of its newspaper, a four-page broadsheet called The Occupied Wall Street Journal. Didn’t manage to snag your own copy? No problem. Here’s a PDF file where you can take a look at it.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
