Occupy Wall Street versus Bank of America, Oct 11, 2011, by InnerCityPress.com

At Occupy Wall Street, Police Threaten Arrest by BofA, Capital One & Dimon in Mix

By Matthew Russell Lee, http://www.innercitypress.com/nyc7ows101111.html

WALL STREET, October 11 -- Police threatened to arrest protesters in front of Bank of America on Broadway Tuesday at dusk, a block from Zuccotti Park which some now call Liberty Plaza. Click here for video by Inner City Press.

At dusk a non-violent group largely concerned with Bank of America funding of mountain-top removal coal mining cross Broadway from the park. White suited Reverend Billy began an "exorcism," preaching how Bank of America funds wars -- then the police moved in.


Police in front of NY Fed, Oct 11, 2001 (c) MRLee

Other signs in the crowd spoke of Capital One, which in applying to buy ING DIRECT could become the fifth largest bank in the United States. It has sought to evade the protests against the Big Four -- Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase -- by means of comedic advertisements featuring such liberal icons as Alec Baldwin and Jimmy Fallon. Baldwin has yet to respond to mounting requests by NCRC and others that he distance himself from Capital One.

Earlier on Tuesday, protesters marched on the home of JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon. Downtown, the JPM Chase tower is surrounded by police and fencing. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, too, was surrounded by police.

At the UN in midtown, before heading south to Occupy Wall Street, Inner City Press suggested to a diplomat of the New Libya that Transitional National Council Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi, a symbol of the Arab Spring, come at least to visit OWS at Zuccotti Park, now called the American Autumn. We'll see. http://www.innercitypress.com/nyc7ows101111.html

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• Bank of America
• Reverend Billy
• OWS
• Capital One
• Jaime Dimon

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