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Wall Street rallies become new brand of tourism |
October 04, 2011
"How many times in life do you get a chance to watch history unfold?" asks a story in TheOccupied Wall Street Journal, a free newspaper that debuted this weekend as part of a vague but growing movement against financial and political avarice. For London visitor Sarah Lewis, that chance is now. Like dozens of other curious bystanders snapping cellphone pictures at the "Occupy Wall Street" encampment in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, she had heard about Saturday's arrests of more than 700 marchers on the Brooklyn Bridge— and has made an impromptu detour to the Big Apple's newest tourist attraction. The draws: face painting, drum circles and a chance to meet such activists as Bill Steyert, 68, a Vietnam veteran from Queens. Sporting a tie-dyed T-shirt and peace symbol pendant, he tells Lewis he is "just as angry now as I was back in 1968." "The country is in economic crisis," says an increasingly hoarse Steyert, waving a white Veterans for Peace banner. "And the...
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