Millionaire's March: Protesters Hit the Streets in NY and Visit the 1 Percent at Their Homes

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AlterNet / By Lynn Parramore

Millionaire's March: Protesters Hit the Streets in NY and Visit the 1 Percent at Their Homes
The Upper East Side is where fatcats like Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire David Koch, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and hedge funder John Paulsen hang their hats.

October 11, 2011 |


It was like an alien invasion. In fact, it was an alien invasion. Thousands of regular people -- the kind without homes in the Hamptons, yachts or private planes -- marching past some of the country's most privileged addresses.

If there's a neighborhood the 1 percent call home, it's New York City's Upper East Side. Fatcats like Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire financier David Koch, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and hedge funder John Paulsen hang their hats there. And today they got paid a visit. From the rest of America.

Today's "Millionaire's March," dedicated to the radical idea of asking the rich to pay their fair share of taxes during a time of economic hardship, included Occupy Wall Street protestors from Zuccotti Park, along with community groups, labor unions, and people who just wanted to show their solidarity. The marchers were young, old, black, white, and certainly weren't dominated by what David Brooks contemptuously called "pierced anarchists" in his New York Times smear piece today.

Their plan was simple: Expose the actors who work to produce and maintain gross inequality and demand real economic change. No more. No less. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/vision/152698/millionaire%27s_march%3A_protesters_hit_the_streets_in_ny_and_visit_the_1_percent_at_their_homes/

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1. Brilliant move

The rich can only sip champaign on a balcony and laugh at the protesters for a little while. Then the realization will set in: the top 1% screwed this country and we aren't going to let them get away with it, with no arrests or prosecutions and nothing but bailouts and interest free loans to big banks (whose names will never be disclosed because "it would be bad for the market" - convenient, eh?).

This is what we need to be doing: let the rich know that they are not a separate nation, our pain is their pain (or at least it will be if we all march on their mansions).

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2. How many did they drag from their homes and kill? n/t

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4. Ah, that's a sweet dream. nt

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5. You know Glenn Beck said " they will drag you from your home

and kill you." Just hoping they took his advice.

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7. He can be first.

Of course, we can't advocate it. But we read murder mystery novels for a reason.

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3. recommend

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6. more on it here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2102472