Sat Oct 1, 2011
US activists are set to begin “Occupy Los Angeles” in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests that have been occurring in New York City's financial district since September 17.
Organizers said people would march from Pershing Square to City Hall in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday morning, the group said on its website.
On Friday, about 2,000 anti-corporate demonstrators marched from a protest camp near Wall Street to the headquarters of the New York Police Department. Activists remained camped out near a small park in lower Manhattan on Saturday, Reuters reported.
Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement, who are protesting issues including the 2008 bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment, have vowed to stay through winter.
Protesters use the slogan "We are the 99 percent” to call attention to the fact that they are not part of the one percent of Americans in possession of the nation's wealth.
Another slogan and the tagline is "The revolution is happening; it's just not in the news."
Organizers have not mentioned the length of the protest in Los Angeles, but asked demonstrators to bring sleeping bags and tents.
New York police have arrested around 100 people so far.
Many protesters became angry after a police commander used pepper spray on four women at last weekend's march and a video of the incident went viral on the Internet.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/202170.html.
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