Our reporters Gloria Dawson and Andrew Katz went down to Zuccotti Park to check out protesters’ signs. Check out their slide show.
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Walking from the Cortlandt Street subway station passed the World Trade Center site, I didn’t know what to expect. I observed the Occupy Wall Street protests two days earlier at Washington Square Park a few blocks away, but left feeling unimpressed and unsure of what was actually happening. Apparently, I was just in the wrong place.
Heading over to Occupy Wall Street’s home base in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, I heard the drums before I saw the crowds, and the television cameras, and the signs. Faces of all races, ages, education backgrounds and careers are asking their government for a better life, and they’re picketing with blunt, carefully worded rhetoric that’s plastered over hundreds of pieces of cardboard to make their case.
The protestors—a representation of the 99 percent of Americans who don’t share 60 percent of the country’s wealth—say they couldn’t afford college, or can’t anymore; that they shouldn’t be taxed when the 1 percent pay less than them; and that they want a career, not just a job to hold them over.
Silence is as strong as speech here, and these signs say it all.
Photos by Gloria Dawson and Andrew Katz/ The Brooklyn Ink
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