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By Lynn ParramoreMillionaire's March: Protesters Hit the Streets in NY and Visit the 1 Percent at Their Homes
The Upper East Side is where fatcats like Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire David Koch, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and hedge funder John Paulsen hang their hats.October 11, 2011 |
It was like an alien invasion. In fact, it was an alien invasion. Thousands of regular people -- the kind without homes in the Hamptons, yachts or private planes -- marching past some of the country's most privileged addresses.
If there's a neighborhood the 1 percent call home, it's New York City's Upper East Side. Fatcats like Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire financier David Koch, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and hedge funder John Paulsen hang their hats there. And today they got paid a visit. From the rest of America.
Today's "Millionaire's March," dedicated to the radical idea of asking the rich to pay their fair share of taxes during a time of economic hardship, included Occupy Wall Street protestors from Zuccotti Park, along with community groups, labor unions, and people who just wanted to show their solidarity. The marchers were young, old, black, white, and certainly weren't dominated by what David Brooks contemptuously called "pierced anarchists" in his New York Times smear piece today.
Their plan was simple: Expose the actors who work to produce and maintain gross inequality and demand real economic change. No more. No less. ...............(more)
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