Monday, November 7, 2011

NYPD Arrests 20 Protesting Illegal Foreclosures

 As people around the country moved their money from the big banks to local banks and credit unions, hundreds in New York marched from Liberty Plaza to Foley Square and brought their anger over illegal foreclosures to the steps of government buildings. 
There, they were greeted by a phalanx of police officers in a rush to block off the granite steps where just a month earlier many had stood to join the (permitted) labor rally in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. 
AlterNet's Tana Ganeva noted that while the marchers remained largely peaceful, the NYPD was still filming the standoff with protesters as more officers filed in with the orange nets that have become so familiar to the Occupiers and those covering their story.     Read more

By Sarah Jaffe | AlterNet

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