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October 12, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Marches on Billionaire Homes 
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In New York City, some 500 supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement
marched through the neighborhoods of some of the city’s wealthiest
residents on Tuesday. The march was organized by 99 New York, a new
coalition of groups formed around the growing movement. The
demonstrators sought to pressure Gov. Andrew Cuomo to extend a surcharge
tax on the state’s wealthiest residents. Demonstrators stopped by the
homes of several New York City billionaires, including John Paulson,
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon; conservative billionaire David Koch; Emigrant
Savings Bank chairman Howard Milstein; and News Corp. CEO Rupert
Murdoch.

Protester: "It's the scene of the crime. Like, Wall Street's here, this
is where our money is. I'm from Michigan, this is where our money is.
People lost their homes in the banking and mortgage crisis, and it went
here. Like people here, I mean just in this neighborhood, they're
unbelievably rich people here and it's just really sad to think about
people back home and know how they're suffering and how people here are
making out like bandits."

Protester 2: "I mean enough is enough. The rich get away with
everything, they pay no taxes. We pay a higher percentage in taxes and
we don't have jobs. There's no jobs, just twenty four million Americans
out of work. That's insane, that's twenty four million, me being one of
them. And I don't see a way out of it except something like this. It's
not going to change unless this happens."



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