Wall Street Tracks ‘Wolves’ as May 1 Protests Loom

[Ghost Dog]

The world’s biggest banks are working with one another and police to gather intelligence as protesters try to rejuvenate the Occupy Wall Street movement with May demonstrations, industry security consultants said.

Among 99 protest targets in midtown Manhattan on May 1 are JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) offices, said Marisa Holmes, a member of Occupy’s May Day planning committee. Events are scheduled for more than 115 cities, including an effort to shut down the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) investors relied on police to get past protests at their annual meeting this week.

“Our goal is to kick off the spring offensive and go directly to where the financial elite play and plan,” she said.

After evictions and arrests from Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park to London that began last year, the movement against income inequality and corporate abuse will regain strength, said Brian McNary, director of global risk at Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, a subsidiary of Sweden’s Securitas AB. (SECUB) He works with international financial firms to “identify, map and track” protesters across social media and at their assemblies, he said. The companies gather data “carefully and methodically” to prevent business disruptions.

Banks are preparing for Occupy demonstrations at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Chicago summit on May 20 and 21 by sharing information from video surveillance, robots and officers in buildings, giving “a real-time, 360-degree” view, said McNary, who works on the project.

/... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-26/wall-street-tracks-wolves-as-may-1-protests-loom.html

Bloomberg dixit.

[leveymg]

1. I'm Spartacus! Track this, assholes:

[pangaia]

2. Wonder where that Dutch kid got the idea? :>))

[leveymg]

3. His Dad's Football club, I think

As for the other guy, it's a very old tradition.

[dotymed]

4. If you wonder "HOW" we got to this place in our

history, I suggest you read, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN, by John Perkins. It was written in 2004, but it is a mind-blowing recent history of how the corptocracy/government colluded to destroy a world population (and our world) to consolidate wealth and power in the hands of a VERY FEW.
It outlines the brutal strategies incorporated to bring us to this (hopefully) pivotal time in world history. It also makes the reader aware that this system is not sustainable. Unless you want the extinction of the human being and much of the animal and plant life to be the outcome. Before that extinction though, the present system (which has been completely legitimized), guarantee's much, much more suffering of all but the few "Rulers," the people who have benefited from the purposeful destruction of the best of humanity and the eco-system.
This book makes it obvious, that unless we end this unjust system (for many it is already too late) the outcome is inevitable.

[jwirr]

5. It is going to be along hot summer!