About 100 climate protesters arrested in march on Wall Street

[lunasun]

Source: Reuters

The protest group behind Monday's action has roots in the Occupy Wall Street movement that started in a downtown Manhattan park in 2011 to protest against what it called unfair banking practices that serve the wealthiest 1 percent, leaving behind 99 percent of Americans.

Kai Sanburn, a 60-year-old nurse and mother of two from Los Angeles, said she had traveled to New York for Sunday's march and wanted to do more
"The action here against Wall Street is really expressive of the feeling that corporations and capitalism no longer serve people," Sanburn said.

Flood Wall Street organizers said they hope Monday's action will draw a link between economic policies and the environment, accusing top financial institutions of "exploiting front-line communities, workers and natural resources" for financial gain.

The event is part of Climate Week, which seeks to draw attention to carbon emissions and their link to global warming, and it comes ahead of a Tuesday U.N. Climate Summit.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/23/us-usa-climatechange-wallstreet-idINKCN0HH17220140923#comments

[Populist_Prole]

1. They should have been carrying misspelled signs and brandishing guns

Not only would the authorities have left them be, but the media would have presented them as a cause celebre.

[candelista]

2. Some of this gets through.

These demonstrations are a way of pointing at something, and saying "There, that's the problem." Some of this actually gets through the media filter.

[Feral Child]

3. The Pork wouldn't have fallen for it.

'Cause there are more than 2 dozen. 'Baggers are too lazy and self absorbed to gather more than that, unless it's at a IHOP.

[RandiFan1290]

4. No Arrests:

Block Traffic No Arrests



Destroy security barricades and stack them to 'attack' White House No Arrests

[LiberalElite]

5. +1,000,000,000 n/t

[iandhr]

6. Out of curiosity...

… were any of these people engaging in civil disobedience? People who protest using civil disobedience have the express objective of getting arrested.

[brooklynite]

7. I assume they all were...

The Climate March on Sunday was organized in cooperation with the City and nobody got arrested. This was explicitly organized without City coordination and included street blockages.

[starroute]

8. The arrests seem to have been coordinated with the police

Somewhere between 1000 and 3000 people marched and then sat down in the street on a section of Broadway. The police let them remain there all day, then moved in after dark and arrested the hundred or so who choose to remain in the street while the much larger number on the sidewalks peacefully dispersed.

I only saw this on the livestream, so I don't know if any of it was prearranged or if it was worked out as it happened. But compared to OWS three years ago, it seemed very orderly and well choreographed on both sides.