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“NEW YORK — More than 1,000 demonstrators descended on New York City’s Financial District on Saturday for what could be a days-long protest of what they said was corporate greed favoring the rich at the expense of ordinary people.

The rally, dubbed #OccupyWallStreet on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook where word was spread, spurred the New York Police Department to lock down Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall, local media reported.

Police set up checkpoints to allow only those who could prove they lived or worked on Wall Street to enter, the New York Daily News reported…..

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that the protesters have a right to be heard, as long as they do not interfere with others’ rights.

“CEOs, the biggest corporations, and the wealthy are taking too much from our country and I think it’s time for us to take back,” one protester told NY1….

Several hundred at nightfall tried to reach Wall Street after marching through nearby streets, the Times reported. However, police blocked them and the march ended at a building housing Cipriani Wall Street, a high end restaurant built into the former home of financial institutions, and from where patrons could be seen in tweeted pictures raising drinks in their honor.

Protesters responded by pointing at them and chanting “pay your share,” the Times reported.”~Read entire article from Msnbc

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