10,000 March On Wall Street

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Organizers called for the reinstatement of the state's "Millionaire Tax," and ending subsidies for companies that don't actually create jobs. They called for Bloomberg to "make the banks pay":

Thousands of teachers, social workers, union members and more took part in a march Thursday against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plans for wide-ranging budget cuts -- and against the Wall Street bankers they blame for the city's budget woes.

Activists reported that the NYPD had arrested several marchers, but the demonstration took on a mostly joyful cast, with colorful signs, raucous chants and even a stilt-walker.

The May 12 Coalition's organizers promised a big turnout of more than 10,000 marchers, and while immediately pinning down the crowd's size proved difficult, at least that number turned out.

Demonstrators from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) alone, which faces more than 4,000 teacher cuts if Bloomberg's budget is enacted as is, numbered in the thousands.

Rev. Al Sharpton, UFT President Michael Mulgrew and an array of city councilmembers and state elected officials laid the blame for the budget cuts squarely at Bloomberg and Wall Street's feet.

"Wall Street recovered, hedge funds got stimulated, and now they want to lay off teachers and close day care centers," Sharpton said. "We're going where they sent the money," he said of the march.

No wonder the news media didn't cover it.

They're looking for ten or more teabaggers gathering in one spot. Then they'll be all over it.

UFT (NYC teachers union) had what appeared to be in excess of 5,000 at our pre-march rally.( @City Hall; about 10 blocks north of Wall Street) Other unions and community groups assembled elsewhere and may or may not have joined the main (UFT) march. One large union... I believe it was 1199 ( municipal workers).... joined us halfway along the route. From what I could see they were several thousand strong.

Cops were diverting the march this way and that. They may have prevented all the protestors in lower Manhattan from marching as one.This may have been intentional or just organizational confusion or a combo of both. Part of the plan was to create a disruption in the Wall Street area around 5PM on a workday so that Wall Street would TAKE NOTICE. At this we succeeded.

Our part of the march ended at Battery Park. There appeared to be only a few hundred gathering there by that time. There was no program or rally scheduled for post march so a lot of marchers had apparently gone home by that time. It was also *cold*. It's right on the water.

Can you believe every thing we have learned about wall street and their plans to speculate us into debt, homelessness and then reward them for it....

nice start..i believe soon it will be millions.