Occupy Wall Street marks 1st anniversary with marches, party hats
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Manhattan's financial
district early Monday to mark the 1-year anniversary of the Occupy
Wall Street movement -- choking traffic and crowding the area
around the New
York Stock Exchange but being met at most turns by walls of
police who stopped them from occupying anything.
The crowds were far smaller than those that took part in the marches last year. Those protests quickly evolved into a 2-month-long occupation of Zuccotti Park in Manhattan and spawned similar Occupy protests across the nation. Further, this year, unlike a year earlier, commuters appeared unfazed by the crowds that began forming shortly after 7 a.m. on a plaza across the street from Zuccotti Park.
Read more :
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-occupy-anniversary-20120917,0,6713498.story
A. Cuvelier
