‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters Hold ‘Millionaires March’ On The Upper East Side

It Seems They've Temporarily Moved Zuccotti Park To Land Of Rich And Famous

October 11, 2011 8:43 PM

Demonstrators with “Occupy Wall Street” on Oct. 11, 2011 (credit: Marla Diamond/WCBS 880)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — “Occupy Wall Street” protesters took their demonstration from Zuccotti Park to Park Avenue on Tuesday, delivering their message to the homes of some of the city’s wealthiest residents.

Chanting “We are the 99 percent!” they raised their voices, raised their signs and raised a ruckus as they marched through the land of the ladies who lunch, reports CBS 2′s Tony Aiello.

“Hey, you millionaires, pay your fair share!” several protesters screamed.

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Some of the crowd traveled uptown to join several hundred activists and union members in a “millionaires march.”

“We’re living in a time where I’ve never seen so much shameless greed,” Upper West Side resident Sima Zaluta said.

They targeted five ultra-rich business tycoons who live on the Upper East Side — Rupert Murdoch, David Koch, Howard Milstein, John Paulson and Jamie Dimon – to illustrate how they’ll benefit when New York’s so-called “millionaire’s tax” expires in December.

The protest comes as New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released a report showing that Wall Street is again losing jobs because of global economic woes, threatening tax revenue for a city and state heavily reliant on the financial industry.

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“It’s crazy to be cutting services for homeless kids, to be giving more money to Rupert Murdoch. We should stop that,” march organizer Mike Kink said.

Their ire was aimed at politicians from both major parties, including the Democratic governor who fought to end the millionaire’s tax.

When asked what his message to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Wanke Starks of Bed-Stuy said, “to stop protecting the millionaires and the billionaires and to start working for the people, because we put him in office.”

Watching it all were some who found the protests misguided.

“Some of their complaints to me is kinda off base. If you really want to create jobs, you don’t protest the people who are trying to create ‘em,” said James Minton of Winston-Salem, N.C.

“I don’t think you can justify labeling rich people one way, and people that are not rich another way,” added Alex Schwartz of the Upper East Side.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly weighed in with his thoughts on Tuesday, saying protesters had a right to speak as long they do it in an orderly manner.

“As long as people obey the law they’re going to have no problem with the police department,” Kelly said. “We obviously are there to facilitate free speech; people are demonstrating their constitutional right to speak.”

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Demonstrators with "Occupy Wall Street" on Oct. 11, 2011 (credit: Marla Diamond/WCBS 880)

The protesters continue to gather support, with sympathy demonstrations underway across the country and some unions joining their rallies. Some 100 people taking part in the “Occupy Boston” march were arrested early Tuesday.

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Monday, some celebrities showed up at Zuccotti Park, including media mogul Russell Simmons and actress Susan Sarandon.

Simmons appeared in a YouTube video with rapper Kanye Wall Street at Zuccotti Park.

“Kanye has been a big supporter spiritually for this movement,” Simmons said. “He’s just here to stand with the people.”

“He understands this idea about getting money out of government, of letting the people govern. He wants to give power back to the people. That’s why we’re here,” Simmons said, as West stood silently next to him.

“I’m happy to pay more taxes. All these people are here because they want more community effort from this country,” said Simmons.

“Let’s use a little of this wealth to give people the basic necessities,” said protester Sparrow Kennedy.

Others protesters simply want a job.

“I am unemployed,” said an exasperated Buddy Bolton. “I have desperately been looking for work for over a year and a half.”

“We do not need a unified message,” said demonstrator Max Hodes.

Tell us your thoughts about the Occupy Wall Street protest in the comments section below.

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Hold Millionaires March On The Upper East Side

EMC

It’s amazing how many people are missing the point. It’s not about socialism or redistributing wealth.The issue is about how certain groups, namely the financial community, have played a majority role in the causes of economic decline and seemingly breezed through the recession.But that’s a small part of the many issues.It’s also about irresponsible members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle who have not listened to and often ignored their constituants.
It is easily confuse all the issues because the group does not have one voice.That is their greatest fault. Personally I am impressed that finally some Americans are willing to go out there and demonstrate instead of being glued to the TV watching baseball or trashy reality shows.
Mark

Blaming a single group, whether it is “Wall Street” or another industry or class of people, for our economic problems is counter-productive. Our problems are deep-rooted and complicated with solutions that will not come easily. Certainly the financial services industry is not blameless with respect to the housing collapse, but so, too, are the politicians who pushed the envelope in boosting home ownership rates (a noble cause, but not well thought through) as are unscrupulous mortgage brokers, and individuals who took on too much debt, were not truthful about their income, or played the “flip the property” game. Political polarization is doing tremendous harm to the country and these protests do not appear, in my opinion, to be helping

nancy

i absolutely agree with u. if just blame for the wall street ppl, it’s better to blame for those fat BB ppl eating food stamp.

nancy

come on……they want to turn America into a communist country? everyone earn the same amount? and the rich need to transfer their wealth to the poor ( non working class– get food stamp)??

Michael H.

You’re not paying attention, nancy. Nobody is arguing for America to become communist.

nancy

but this is the way they try to do. they dun want rich ppl. just think about there is no wall st. no financial industry in new york city, our economy will still good??
jagdish

Actually, Michael, you’re the one not paying attention.

Sarah Beth

Is the media helping or hurting their cause? How about the celebrities? You decide…

http://www.leadfootedrabbit.com/2011/10/even-god-hates-wall-st.html
mo

Gee Whiz, couldn’t those unions, er, I mean protestors, find any non-conservatives to picket? Maybe Ken Lay? Kennedy? Rockefeller? Morgan? Goldman-Sachs?

Bunch of hypocrits.

Morris Bergen

Ken Lay died FIVE YEARS AGO. (But you already knew that, right?)

mo

No, sorry. We don’t socialize in the same circles so I missed the news of his demise.

Okay, so we’ll pick another one. It’s not like we can’t find another gazillionaire that leans left. For Pete’s sake, we could just randomly pick a name out of the Who’s Who of the entertainment industry and find somebody that would fit the bill.

Vik

Mayor Bloomberg is OK SO LONG AS THEY DON’T MARCH IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE!! Or better yet, why doesn’t have a seat with his voting public. Oh wait — word is most of these protesters aren’t even from NYC. Sooo it’s still OK with our elected Mayor Dumberg that these poor defenseless, people use drugs, fornicate, defecate in public – our public space. But leave them alone huh? He feels more sympathy for these dirtbags than his own constituents. Who’s running in the next election?!
Anthonyk

Who the hell is “Rapper Kanye Wall Street”, i think you mean “Rapper Kanye West”. Your news is always full of elementary mistakes…no wonder no one reads it. Just like the guy who was caught the other day “Seeling Heroin”….retarded
RichRule

In 2009 (maybe 2008), a Goldman Sachs trader received a $49,000,000 bonus. And he was angry. He felt that he was cheated. Greed is a sickness.

Jeffy

The idea, is people are no sure what direction to take. Everyone knows things are not right and want some answers. Now is the time to come up with answers, and help this economy

http://www.dailyjobcuts.com

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Adam Smith

He should have declined that bonus and diverted it to the communist fund plan.
Divestiture should be the common norm until the righteous standard of multicultural purging and righteous morality, construed by the few and proud leaders, will be implemented.
Say….the above ended with 1989 communist massacre in E.EUrope…, how do you think this bolshevik fiasco ends?
?

ninetyninepercent

Way to create a false straw argument that shows your ignornace.

There is no reason any human deserves a $49 million bonus

The system is broken.

pusher

No, and why is that there can be no reason for a human being to receive a $49 mil bonus? A corporation has the right to decide who gets paid what. But maybe the problem is the the “99 percent” are just not smart enough to make it in the real world to make any real money?

RichRule

Send the rich CEO’s and their cronies to the countries that they off-shored our jobs.
Pam

If all they want is jobs why aren’t they protesting down at the White House. Leave New York alone!
George L

These people have FREE education through high school, FREE broadcast TV and radio, FREE libraries, FREEDOM of speech, FREE hospital care, and, for the most part, public assistance for FREE food. They ARE the 1%!! But they want MORE, MORE, MORE without working for it! Most of the world’s population hasn’t got a clue what they are whining about.

RichRule

Both of my boys were honor students all the way through Graduate school. They each hold a Master Degree—yet one is unemployed and the other is underemployed (he’s having problems paying the rent). Mr. George L: You don’t have a clue about how bad it is.

For 40 years now our jobs (minted here in the good old USA) have been exported to foreign lands. Manufacturing has been decimated and now our service jobs are going bye, bye, too! My only surprise is that this hasn’t happened sooner.

Sal

Masters in what?

Give it a Break

Does it really matter? They went to school, got an education, and are ready and willing to work. With your questions, your just looking to shoot them down and ridicule them that they have a useless degree if it doesn’t meet YOUR standards.
Paco

probably a worthless social science…

The Realist

Did your kids choose “fluff” majors like art history or comparative literature? Or did they major in EMPLOYABLE fields like nursing (like one of my cousins) or physical therapy (like three of my cousins) or accounting or engineering?

deering

In case you hadn’t noticed (or didn’t care), the majority of people who are unemployed are from “employable,” formerly-secure jobs–middle-managers, secretaries, managers. Or their field (like law-firm clerking and engineering) is being outsourced overseas or companies are hiring cheaper imported workers. That’s why most people know the right-wing and their suck-up flunkies are full of it when you all come up with arguments like this–because people in normally stable jobs have been laid-off to a destabilizing point. And it’s funny that you wingers back in the 60′s railed against people going into trades jobs because you swore up and down that the only way to defeat Communism was if citizens went into knowledge fields–the very ones you call impractical now.

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Occupy Boston? This is getting out of hand. The only reason to occupy Boston is the annual parade when one of our teams wins a championship.
Vik

As for those “sympathetic” celebrities that show up for a decent photo op, why don’t you alll put all your rich money where your mouths are and put some of these people to work? Otherwise, you look pretty damn stupid going there bellowing “I feel for you, feel really bad for you, fight for your right” and then as soon as you turn your back … “driver where are you? I need to get to the Four Seasons for a $100 lunch with my other obscenely rich friends and please beep at any cars driven by middle class people to get out of the way because after all, don’t they know who I am? And please bring me to my private jet lent to me by my greedy corporate friends because I have to go make $10 million dollars for acting like crap.”

Kanye

Um, it’s a $500 lunch. Idiot.

Sal

Are there no rich lib dems on the dirtbag’s list of houses to protest? I guess this is an Obama, Pelosi, Reid event. Got it.
Brooklyn McDirtyshoes

So their plan is to march past the homes of the wealthy…on a weekday…in the middle of the afternoon….WHEN THEY’RE ALL AT WORK???

Bklyn mom

just shows how clueless they are! lol

United Brotherhood of Slobs

They should organize and exort like the unions. Walk to the homeowners on the upper east side and tell them to pay up or 10,000 slobs are going to take turns urinating on their front stoop.

Slim Pickens

Slobs? No, victims of Wall St greed and fascist government. I must say that I do like your idea though. .

sue

These people need to go out, get an education and spend their time looking for a job. Corporate America provides jobs and a tax base. If you work hard, you can achieve anything. These people want handouts.

Slim Pickens

You should really get a clue.
RichRule

Both of my boys were honor students all the way through Graduate school. They each hold a Master Degree—yet one is unemployed and the other is underemployed (he’s having problems paying the rent). Ms. Sue: You don’t have a clue about how bad it is.

For 40 years now our jobs (minted here in the good old USA) have been exported to foreign lands. Manufacturing has been decimated and now our service jobs are going bye, bye, too! My only surprise is that this hasn’t happened sooner.

Did you say tax base? Our tax base has been eroded by Corporate America sending our jobs to China, India, Central and South America.

BO STINKS!

Degrees in What??? I see you keep mentioning your boys, why not answer the question? Oh never mind you’ll probably lie anyway.

richrule

That’s not to point BO STINKS! My son David has a Masters in Education (no job), and my son Ryan has a Masters in Criminal Justice (works for the D.A.).

Jimmy

In case you wondering , the russian to english translation of this is
“Get the best free sms software, new games, high-quality films, classical music and various shots on the site”

So it’s Spam, don’t click on the site.
goblin

I hope the Police arrest any of these people if they block traffic.
E.L. Lewis

It is sad to see the total lack of understanding of the Occupy movement from the above commenters and almost all of the Main stream media. This movement is about wanting an end to corporate control and greed in our society and a return to a level playing field in America so that we can all have a fair chance to achieve our dreams.
Corporate money out of Government, Corporate control of the media broken so we can return to a fair and balanced coverage of news, corporate influence out of our wars, so they don’t run for 10 years at the cost of our people so a few can profit. This is not against the rich but against unfair policies that make it impossible for the 99% to compete or have our voices heard.

Sal

Everyone has a fair shake, YOU chosse what to make of that fair shake.

Sal

I started working at 15, graduated HS, worked for a year. Went to college, received by Associates. Got a job, worked more years paid by loans back. Went back to school to get my Bachelors and Masters, paid back my loans quickly. Doesn’t seem to hard, and I came from a low-income family. And today, my only debt is my home and a measly little credit card.

Kazoo

Sal please stop making sense. All these losers want are more entitlements. Just look at the leftist socialist activist that back them – OBAMA,PELOSI, and the rest of the unamericans
jayblue60

You must be employed by the GOP. You have no credibility.

The Realist

Actually, Sal sounds very credible.

I had a part-time job while in high school. I paid for college and grad school with two part-time jobs. One of my grad school professors referred me to an intership, which in turn led to a full-time job. After 22 years and several promotions, I’m quite happy and wouldn’t change anything.

lucky

I also have been working since I was 13, put myself through school (grad. level) and lived on my own since I was 17. But make no mistake about it, I am also aware that I am lucky to be American, white (please don’t think that I am a supremacist, I just am aware that racism and sexism have and still exist) and healthy. What they are disputing (and I am not saying that I agree with today’s tactic) is greed, corruption, mismanagment and possibly, our own apathy. Also it is egotistical, and I think, ignorant to believe that only hard work leads to success; most people that make it “big” are lucky. Lucky to be born into a certain family, into this country, to have hands, legs, etc…., to have a penis, be of a certain color, maybe have an angel on your shoulder, etc…if you don’t get that, like Donald Trump who “made it on his own” – yeah right- then you don’t have an understanding of others around you or the society that you live in. I am not suggesting that people who are addicts (I am an addict, so I am not judging, I just think there is a point when narcissim takes over and we need to grow up), lazy or moochers don’t exist. But we need to have some compassion. Like a kid, you can’t spoil them but they need praise and guidance as well some tough love. Many of us also don’t understand that we are merely renters of the earth. We should be thinking of those that come after us; the children and the animals (if we exist of the years 2050+). The problems are greed, the govt. (and us allowing wars to be waged, regulations and taxes to be cut, saving businesses that maybe should have failed for their gambling), the military industrial system and the oil companies. What is going on may have issues, be a little leaderless, chaotic ect…but it is actually making us talk and make inquiries about such things as the banks or the Adam Smith philosophy. Nothing wrong with that. Better than watching reality shows or sitting in a bar.

Vik

Tell your lazy A$$, whiny, bleeding heart firends in Zucotti park to go the he!! home! We’re sick of them!!!!!!

Richard V.

It’s long over due this revolution.I hope that this time there really will be a change for the good. Not just more lies from the machine.
al

Waste of time people. You should march near WH and Capital Hill, where the scums are located and who are responsible for all your trouble. But, my guess the disgusting politicos who orchestrated this show wish you to be away from them.
Gino Lafranco

hugo chavez and ahmadinejad suport the wall street protests this how you know this is a anti american movement
Gino Lafranco

hugo chavez and ahmadinejad suport the wall stret protest this how you know thi is anti america movement
TomNJ

“Tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no, rich no more”. – Ten Years After song, 1971 – We have heard this all before.

Big Ed

I’d love to change the world
But I don’t know what to do!

TomNJ

so I leave it up to you…

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