By
Matthew
Russell Lee
WALL
STREET,
September 15
-- Amid chants
of "Bank of
America, bad
for America,"
marchers
headed
Saturday at
dusk from
Manhattan's
Washington
Square Park
south on
Broadway
toward Wall
Street. Video
here.
Police
on foot,
scooters and
in vans
trailed them,
then suddenly
plunged into
the crowd just
north of White
Street. Inner
City Press,
inside the
march, was
grabbed then
released by
NYPD. The
march
continued
south to
Zuccotti Park,
the past and
perhaps future
Liberty
Square.
There,
marchers were
allowed single
file past NYPD
and Brookfield
Office Properties
security
officers into
the park.
There were mic
checks about
Occupy
Trinity, and
the upcoming
September 17
attempts to
shut down the
New York Stock
Exchange.
How
much has
changed in the
year since
Occupy Wall
Street began
here. Banks
are near
failing in
Spain;
austerity is
protested
there and in
Greece. Some
euphoria about
the Arab
Spring has
dissipated
among
extremist
attacks. Still
Syria was
cited among
the marchers'
chants.
A sign
in the crowd
read "Bankers
Behind Bars."
This has not
happened. As
Inner City
Press noted
from
Washington on
Thursday,
while the
Department of
Justice brags
of some fines
that it has
levied,
Citigroup
executives
like Robert
Rubin have
escaped
unscathed,
still
pontificating
about foreign
policy and the
Euro. Still
there are
attempts to
try to hold
these to
account. Watch
this site.
