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CAPITAL OCCUPATION — Anti-Wall Street, anti-greed protest extends south to Washington D.C., continues at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

DEMONSTRATORS VOW TO SIT-IN INDEFINITELY; POLITICAL ACTIVIST NADER OFFERS SUPPORT Read the story at Voice of Baltimore — http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/519

The “Occupy Wall Street” anti-greed movement that began last month in New York and spread coast to coast came to the nation’s capital at week’s end as some 100 protesters “occupied” Washington’s Freedom Plaza just two blocks from the White House to express outrage at America’s economic and political system. ...... “Occupy DC” organizers said demonstrators intended to stay in the city indefinitely and that more protesters were expected to join the group today. ...... The loosely organized demonstrations — which have no specific goals or agenda, nor remedies for correcting what demonstrators call the nation’s obsession with greed — continued also into Saturday in Baltimore, having begun early in the week at McKeldin Square in the Inner Harbor, where so far about 100 individuals have staged a sit-in and a small number have camped out overnight. ...... READ THE STORY AND WATCH VIDEO OF POLITICAL ACTIVIST RALPH NADER --

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