“Flood Wall Street” Activists Won’t Let the Markets Forget the Climate
“Flood Wall Street” Activists Won’t Let the Markets Forget the Climate – On the heels of Sunday’s People’s Climate March, thousands of activists swarmed Wall Street on Monday in a protest of financial injustice and climate change.
The protesters, using tactics gleaned from the Occupy Wall Street movement, closed down the streets surrounding the iconic Charging Bull statue for most of the day. An early afternoon attempt to take Wall Street resulted in a small scuffle with police, who briefly fired pepper spray from behind steel barricades.
Author Chris Hedges, who helped organize the protest said “This is the center of corporate capitalism and global speculation, which is ravaging not only the ecosystem, but destroying the lives of working men and women around the globe, so it’s kind of the place to be.”
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