Tonight on Countdown: NYC March draws close to 15,000, Unions join, Students walk out

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ShowPlug1:#OccupyWallStreet NYC March draws close to 15,000, per ABC News. Unions join. Students walk out. First Statement "Declared."

ShowPlug2: Guests: Pres. John Samuelson of TWU Local100 ; NY1's Errol Louis ; Eliot Spitzer on How Wall Street got ITSELF occupied

ShowPlug3: Banks respond by raising fees on debit cards, charging for "free" checking! I'll give 1st nat'l TV reading of OWS "Declaration"

ShowPlug4: Beck predicts OWS leads to Guillotines, Gas Chambers, higher Gold Prices. Palin not running; could she sue Ailes for harassment?

ShowPlugLast: + "Retroactive Recusal." Rep. Slaughter's idea to undo Citizens United. Jonathan Turley on reality or daydream.

http://www.thertv.eu/?p=22

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1. Them's some numbers. K&R nt

[aquart]

3. 15,000 in NYC? Not so much.

But I don't think the numbers will get smaller. Now that the students and unions are involved, I think the numbers are going to grow.

We have an intractable, unresponsive Congress and our options have been narrowed by their bad choices.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. "Not so much" ???? Pls show me how you arrived at your conclusion of not 15,000.

[aquart]

9. 15,000 isn't much in NYC.

But I saw the pictures and it's an underestimate.

[Occupied1]

5. i heard higher estimates. if it's abc, likely low-ball. it's not over yet, btw: crowd film here,

ongoing, still looks huge. and it's after dark.

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

[aquart]

10. Yeah. Once I saw the pictures I knew they low-balled it.

Also, the marches and occupations are still quite local. For the large marches in NYC, we usually had national input, buses arriving from everywhere.

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6. I see your point

But what percentage of the population ever takes to the street? How many at home watching children, toiling at work, or hell, in jail for minor possession or something (while real crimes against society remain unpunished), are there in spirit?

You're right, I think the numbers will grow.

[frazzled]

7. I remember when 100,000 marched against the Iraq War there

In Boston, we had 50,000. Equal numbers in cities all over the country. No one paid any attention to it, and the bombs dropped.

[aquart]

2. And a guillotine would be a bad thing?

I can think of an easy way to forestall it. Tax the fucking rich.

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8. Democracy Now's Ryan Devereaux reporting to us at least 20 arrested

DN!'s Ryan Devereaux reporting to us at least 20 arrested, fights, random pepper spraying when #OccupyWallStreet tried to enter Wall Street

"Kettled protestors at Wall and Broadway with hands in air" per NYDN reporter on scene #OccupyWallStreet

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