Big banks cooperating to track Occupy protesters

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/440-occupy/11169-banks-cooperate-to-track-occupy-protesters

The world's biggest banks are working with one another and police to gather intelligence as protesters try to rejuvenate the Occupy Wall Street movement with May demonstrations, industry security consultants said.

Among 99 protest targets in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday are JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America offices, said Marisa Holmes, a member of Occupy's May Day planning committee.

Events are scheduled in more than 115 cities, including an effort to shut down the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where Wells Fargo investors relied on police to get past protests at their annual meeting this week.

"Our goal is to kick off the spring offensive and go directly to where the financial elite play and plan," she said.

After evictions and arrests from Manhattan's Zuccotti Park to London that began last year, the movement against income inequality and corporate abuse will regain strength, said Brian McNary, director of global risk at Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations.

He works with international financial firms to "identify, map and track" protesters across social media and at their assemblies, he said. The companies gather data "carefully and methodically" to prevent business disruptions.

[Zorra]

1. Why track us when they should simply expect us?

We're not going away, and we're certainly not hiding.

4/28/12
Dear Banksters,

Occupy is going to make it so that you can never hurt anyone ever again. And we are going to do this non-violently. We'll be there ASAP.

See ya soon!


☮ccupy

[eridani]

4. Indeed. We need to be like the best major league pitchers

When on their game, the batter can know exactly what pitch is coming and STILL can't hit it.

[Zorra]

5. Yeah. Mariano Rivera comes to mind.

The single nastiest pitch in baseball history. The batter knows what is coming, it just moves around so much they can't hit it.

He's gotta hold the record for breaking the bats of opposing batters.

I'm pretty sure it's some kind of Central American voodoo witchcraft thing.

(I love baseball)

[truedelphi]

2. Proud to be Rec number five.

Here, I sit, forced by AnonWeAreMany to endlessly praise the Occupy Movement.

Let's get ourselves some real results on Tuesday.

[limpyhobbler]

3. A lot of this is driven by people making money.

The private security companies get paid. The security department at the bank gets paid.

It's harassment and want to see someone at these security companies charged with cyber stalking or cyber bulling.