Occupy Wall Street Moves Across the Hudson to Jersey City
The demonstrators are coming!
The fledgling Occupy Wall Street movement, having kicked off their effort on September 17, are now relatively ensconced in their new digs in Zuccotti Park in the financial district in Manhattan. Is it already time to test their wings by moving to other locales in other cities?
That’s just what is happening as people catch the bug and events and occupations start to form in multiple cities across America and around the world.
Much closer to home, there is a story forming around a local New York initiative to occupy the Goldman Sachs tower across the Hudson River in Jersey City. It’s a quick march from their base in lower Manhattan, through the Lincoln tunnel to the base of the enormous tower that dominates downtown Jersey City, otherwise known as Wall Street West.
Perhaps ironically, Goldman Sachs, the giant and influential investment bank, made the same pilgrimage in 2003: from Manhattan’s financial district still reeling from the spectacular destruction by airplane of its iconic World Trade towers on 9-11-01 to their new hulk of a building across the Hudson river.
Of course investment bank’s migration had to do with business not protest. Their new headquarters is probably safer from terrorist airplanes in Jersey City than it would be in Manhattan, but not from demonstrators intent on peacefully disrupting daily proceedings and drawing attention to their plight.
Occupy Wall Street’s originating strategy was to set up camp near Wall Street - the iconic and unchallenged center of banking and international finance - to protest the deleterious effect of money on our politics. In the words of the organization: “the blatant injustices perpetuated by the 1% - the economic and political elites - whose actions affect all of us, the 99%.”
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