NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs, arguably the most storied investment bank on Wall Street, has been compared to a money-sucking vampire squid and called the evil empire of finance. On Wednesday, it got a black eye from one of its own.
OAKLAND, Calif. — For weeks the protests had waned, with only a smattering of people taking to Oakland’s streets for occasional marches that bore little resemblance to the headline-grabbing Occupy demonstrations of last fall.
SAN FRANCISCO — Bloggers and activists from China, the Middle East and Latin America said Friday they were afraid that new Twitter policies could allow governments to censor messages, stifling free expression.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several hundred protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement converged on the West Lawn of the Capitol Tuesday to decry the influence of corporate money in politics and voice myriad other grievances.
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — President Barack Obama, the home of the nation’s first presidential primary Tuesday, urged Republicans to support a payroll tax cut next week. Obama argued that a failure to extend the tax breaks would hurt middle-class families already struggling amid a shaky economy, effectively daring congressional Republicans to block the extension and increase taxes a year before the next presidential election.
The economy stinks and we’re not going to take it any longer. While this may not be the official message of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) participants, it seems to come pretty close to understanding why the movement was born, blossomed and now searches for a unifying message to policymakers. Had the U.S. economy experienced anything like a normal recovery from the Great Recession, it seems unlikely the movement would have developed. But with an unemployment rate in excess of 9 percent and nearly 14 million people unemployed — and many more millions underemployed — it is little wonder that some people have taken to the streets to protest.
COLUMBUS — Ohioans inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement and angry at what they see as too much corporate influence on government have expanded their protests throughout the state — both in size, location and diversity. In the city’s first demonstration, about 300 protesters gathered in downtown Youngstown on Saturday to rally against corporate greed and Ohio’s contested new collective bargaining law, The Vindicator newspaper reported.
NEW YORK (AP) — Now it’s personal: Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters held a “Millionaires March” on Tuesday past the homes of some of the wealthiest executives in America, stopping to jeer “Tax the rich!”; and “Where’s my bailout”;