Apocalypse
12-01-2011, 10:42 AM
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Occupy Protesters Mobilize for Obama’s Visit
More than 100 Occupy Wall Street protesters marched to a Midtown hotel on Wednesday night to protest a fund-raising event for President Obama.
Escorted by police vehicles as they helped snarl traffic across the Times Square area, beginning at Bryant Park, the group settled in front of barricades on the southwest corner of 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue, in view of the Sheraton hotel at which Mr. Obama was expected to appear by 9 p.m.
Demonstrators held signs that leveled some of the Occupy protest’s most pointed criticism to date of the president. “Obama is a corporate puppet,” one said. “War crimes must be stopped, no matter who does them,” read another, beside head shots of President George W. Bush and President Obama.
One man, wearing a mask of the president’s face and holding a cigar, carried a sign that read, “I sold out!”
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/occupy-protesters-mobilize-for-obamas-visit/
But its not just the OWS people pissed too.
As people tried to get to Rockefeller Center for the Tree Lighting, they found barricades every where, traffic halted, and no access to the tree lighting as the President rubbed elbows with the elite of NY for campaign cash.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/president_obama_trip_rockefeller_FwyGV1KVKzh9JN7tn nNL7O
Occupy Protesters Mobilize for Obama’s Visit
More than 100 Occupy Wall Street protesters marched to a Midtown hotel on Wednesday night to protest a fund-raising event for President Obama.
Escorted by police vehicles as they helped snarl traffic across the Times Square area, beginning at Bryant Park, the group settled in front of barricades on the southwest corner of 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue, in view of the Sheraton hotel at which Mr. Obama was expected to appear by 9 p.m.
Demonstrators held signs that leveled some of the Occupy protest’s most pointed criticism to date of the president. “Obama is a corporate puppet,” one said. “War crimes must be stopped, no matter who does them,” read another, beside head shots of President George W. Bush and President Obama.
One man, wearing a mask of the president’s face and holding a cigar, carried a sign that read, “I sold out!”
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/occupy-protesters-mobilize-for-obamas-visit/
But its not just the OWS people pissed too.
As people tried to get to Rockefeller Center for the Tree Lighting, they found barricades every where, traffic halted, and no access to the tree lighting as the President rubbed elbows with the elite of NY for campaign cash.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/president_obama_trip_rockefeller_FwyGV1KVKzh9JN7tn nNL7O