Police cordon off Wall Street
Twitter, Facebook, video streaming and web sites are the media weapons of choice of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. About a thousand people were today camped out in the Wall Street financial district in New York, demanding that the bankers who sparked the global economic crisis be brought to trial.
It was an all in protest. There was an African percussion band, old people, young people, punks with mohawks, native americans in suits, unionists, volunteer librarians running the people’s library, radical vegetarians and even a very strange man with crude tattoos and scars all over his visible body.
In the middle of the park, near the free food kitchen, they established a new media centre equipped with lap tops, digital cameras and recorders. More…
