Wall Street activists vow to avenge eviction

disrupt the New York Stock Exchange, then rally on the city’s subway and major bridges.
The website occupywallst.org announced a “Global Day of Action” that will combine demonstrations across the United States with protests in other nations including Belgium, Germany, Poland and Spain.
The level of participation in the rallies could provide a clear indication of Occupy Wall Street’s clout exactly two months since the movement sprang up to protest against the elite “1 percent” – and two days after New York police cleared out the tent camp in Manhattan.
“We will no longer tolerate the oppression of the 1 percent,” the OWS website said.
“This is why we’re fighting back tomorrow . . . We will shut down Wall Street and we will occupy all of New York City with our bodies, voices and ideas.”
Organisers in New York said protesters would start gathering at 7am (1200 GMT) at Zuccotti Park, scene of the dramatic police raid, then march to nearby Wall Street and the stock exchange.
The action was due to begin six hours before the global movement faced a major challenge in London, where a deadline for anti-capitalist protesters camped at St Paul’s Cathedral to leave was scheduled to expire.
“Enough of this economy that exploits and divides us,” the OWS announcement said. “It’s time we put an end to Wall Street’s reign of terror.”
Previous OWS protests have been peaceful, but with tensions rising between the activists and police it was unpredictable what would happen when the crowd tried to enter Wall Street – almost certainly to be blocked from entering.
The wider US movement has also seen trouble this week, with an Occupy camp in Oakland being broken up and a suspected gunman being shot dead by police at the University of California at Berkeley, although it was not linked to the hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who had descended on the elite college.
OWS promised to “confront Wall Street with the stories of people on the frontlines of economic injustice. There, before the Stock Exchange, we will exchange stories rather than stocks.”
From there, the programme calls on protesters to meet at underground rail hubs “and take our own stories to the trains”. A final instalment is scheduled as a rally on a major square near police headquarters and various courthouses, then a march across bridges, likely meaning the nearby Brooklyn Bridge. – AFP.