US protesters rally to #OccupyWallStreet #USDOR #WorldRevolution
Across the country we are calling all citizens to take action in their cities...go to your capital...go to your biggest cities... to your local business centers... come together...STAND UP and BE HEARD!!! Peaceful protest by the people...ALL the people must be the first step
Our voices are being drowned out by the money that is buying our freedom from us the money that is buying our government that we supposedly voted for the money that is corrupting everything for which the original revolution that started this country stood for! What we live under now is nothing short of a corporate oligarchy and can no longer be tolerated.
Protesters gather in New York's financial hub for demonstration against what organisers call corporate dominance.
Building on the momentum of the Arab Spring movements, protesters in the US are gathering in New York City's financial district in a bid to show mass resistance against the dominance of the country's financial system.
What started as an online campaign has translated into action on the ground, with protest organisers calling for thousands of people to "occupy Wall Street" on Saturday.
"On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months," organisers wrote on the www.occupywallst.org website.
"Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants."
The leaderless movement includes hacktivist group Anonymous among the protesters. The group released a video online calling on people to take to the streets on September 17.
Similar to the structure of the hacktivist group itself there is no defined central authority, but Twitter accounts like @AnonOps are hubs of information for those attending the protests in person and virtually.
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