Reply #57: 'A Responsibility To Represent The People:' Occupy Protest In Full Swing

[Demeter]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/11/17/142450786/a-responsibility-to-represent-the-people-occupy-protest-in-full-swing?ft=1&f=1001

Protesters are trying to surround the intersections that lead to the New York Stock Exchange. At the intersection of Pine and Nassau, the protesters are close enough to get a glimpse of the ornate facade of the Exchange. That's why a few hundred protesters have stopped there, with rows and rows of police lining the streets, trying to keep a walking path open and trying to keep protesters from breaching the barricades and making it to the steps of the Exchange...One man in a dark suit and tie said, "This is disgusting and horrible and I'm a busy person trying to get to work."

...Government is more concerned about the interests of the rich corporations as opposed to the interests of the people who elected them.

To make that point, Pete Tridish, 41, dressed as cookie monster and held a sign that said "One percent of the monsters eat 99 percent of the cookies."

"It's a great metaphor," he said. "There are no checks and balances." Wall Street has been deregulated and has been "allowed to do what they want."