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Lucylastic -> 20,000 in new york OWS (10/15/2011 11:17:06 PM)
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Im using Huff Po as its got lots of off links to more info and pics, as they are taking it more seriously than fox, who had one article on it , their lead was about the violence in Rome, which mysteriously lost words from the official AP story, There is video also.SOme great marches from all around the world and so little violence from the protestors at least.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/15/occupy-times-square-wall-street_n_1012942.html
NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in New York's Times Square on Saturday, buoyed by a global day of demonstrations in support of their month long campaign against corporate greed.
Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, protests on Saturday started in Asia and rippled through Europe back to the United States and Canada. Protesters fed up with economic inequality took to the streets in cities from Washington, Boston and Chicago to Los Angeles, Miami and Toronto.
After weeks of intense media coverage, the size of the U.S. protests on Saturday have been smaller than G20 meetings or political conventions yielded in recent years. Such events often draw tens of thousands of demonstrators.
In New York, where the movement began when protesters set up camp in a Lower Manhattan park on Sept. 17, organizers said the protest grew to at least 5,000 people as they marched to Times Square from their makeshift outdoor headquarters.
"These protests are already making a difference," said Jordan Smith, 25, a former substance abuse counselor from San Francisco, who joined the New York protest. "The dialogue is now happening all over the world."
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