Occupy Wall Street is going on the road — a two-week walk to Washington.
A small group of activists plans to leave Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park at noon Wednesday and arrive by the Nov. 23 deadline for a congressional committee to decide whether to keep President Barack Obama’s extension of Bush-era tax cuts. Protesters say the cuts benefit only rich Americans.
Kelley Brannon is organizing the 240-mile march through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland with a core group of a dozen activists, picking up other marchers along the way — even if for a day, or only an hour, they say.
“Occupy the Highway” — as it’s been dubbed — will start from the Manhattan park where the first Occupy encampment was set up, with a ferry ride across the Hudson River from West 34th Street to Elizabeth, N.J.
Brannon likened the effort to the long-distance marches led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights era.
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Good riddince stay out of NY
I hear they will walk on weekdays and ride on Saturdays.
Who exactly is supporting these loafers? Are they supported by taxpayer money? Are they living on cash they have stashed under their mattress and collecting such as HUD,Food Stamps and Medicaid? Are they on SSI or disability? Who exactly are these people? Maybe we should start following some of them and find out who they really are not who they pose to be or stand for!?!?!?!?!
3. These people are Obama’s and the Socialist Liberal Progressive Democrat Workers Party Band of Useful Idiots.