Transit Workers to Join Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Olivia Scheck
dnainfo.com
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:59 UTC

Manhattan - Occupy Wall Street, the group of demonstrators that has stationed itself in a Lower Manhattan park for nearly two weeks, got a vote of support from one of the city's most influential unions Wednesday.

The executive board for the Transport Workers Union Local 100, which boasts roughly 38,000 bus and subway workers plus an additional 26,000 retirees, voted Wednesday night to support the demonstrators, who have been camped out at Zuccotti Park, near the World Trade Center, since Sept. 17, according to spokesman Jim Gannon.

Gannon said the union would invite its members to join the Occupy Wall Street crowd for a march and rally at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 5. The Working Families Party is also expected to participate in the Oct. 5 action, according to spokesman T.J. Helmstetter.

The TWU vote seemed to represent a growing sense of mainstream legitimacy for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, who have been criticized as lacking organization and political focus.

Celebrity activists Susan Sarandon, Cornel West and Michael Moore haven also given a boost to the demonstrators, who say they are there to protest corporate greed, among other things, by joining them in Zuccotti Park.

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gingernuts · 2011-09-30T04:13:59Z

america

about time the yanks stepped up to the plate, well done we are proud of you, and support you fully!!

redrock12 · 2011-09-30T07:47:46Z

Wheeooo!

Transit workers, pilots, students, and all other normal human beings,
KEEP THE FIRES OF CHANGE BURNING BRIGHTLY.
Dont ja just love it!

Highland Fleet Lute · 2011-09-30T08:45:31Z

Rotten Apple Babel

Destroy your cellphone/smart-phone/blackberry. You have nothing to lose but your frequency fence.

gdpetti · 2011-09-30T10:57:57Z

Better yet...

encourage everyone to pull their money out of the markets, and that includes all fed and state, municipal bonds etc
."When big insider banks like Goldman Sachs start shorting the markets in a big way, and advise their high roller clients via private letter to do the same, you can bet the market s are going to take a beating in October. Puts shorting the S&P 500 are at a record high for October which indicates that a lot of big money is predicting a huge fall in global stocks soon." www. worldaffairs.com

And this sort of setup for the next leg down is being advertised on all the business channels, financial mags etc. So obviously, they are getting their message out and want everyone to keep following their lead, only this time it's going to be down. They control the paper markets, so if 'invested' in it, you have to follow along or just 'let go' and go into Precious Metals, the metal itself and not the ETFs or fiat type.

Such shows of support in this protest are nice, but getting the truth out would be a much deeper wound to the Beast, but expect an accompanying reaction, but that is going to happen anyway, as the script has already been written.

Anyone lose a bunch of kangaroos? They were last seen jumping all over the New York's Justice Department and the DA's office.

Robotech

The people who should care, dont. Lets all move on. Unless this clearly dead equine, needs more whipping.

3.1415926535

The Globalists in Government, will ruin more lives without anyone caring about any of it. Its over, move on to the next Globalist ruse. If people...

exercise and good diet : the best medicine

Giant Meteor 24

A symbolic event, perhaps ? While only "historic", it is still a stock exchange.

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Transit Workers to Join Occupy Wall Street Protesters

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