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700 Wall Street Protesters Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Oct 02, 2011 12:39am |
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| News Date | Sunday, October 2, 2011 04:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, global warming and social inequality, among other grievances, were arrested Saturday night after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours.
Some demonstrators spilled onto the roadway in the late afternoon after being told to stay on the pedestrian pathway, the NYPD said. Most of those arrested face disorderly conduct charges, while others were charged with resisting arrest. The bridge reopened hours later at around 8 p.m. after it had been cleaned, police said.
Erin Larkins, a graduate student at Columbia University who says she and her boyfriend have $130,000 combined in student loan debt, was among the thousands of protesters on the bridge. She said a friend persuaded her to join the march and she's glad she did.
"I don't think we're asking for much, just to wake up every morning not worrying whether we can pay the rent, or whether our next meal will be rice and beans again," Larkins wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "No one is expecting immediate change. I think everyone is just hopeful that people will wake up a bit and realize that the more we speak up, the more the people that do have the authority to make changes in this world listen." |
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