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More anti-Wall St demos on tap despite 700 arrests

US activists decrying corporate greed pledged to march on Wall Street again Wednesday despite the arrests of more than 700 protesters who blocked weekend traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

US activists decrying corporate greed planned Sunday to fight on near Wall Street after more than 700 protesters were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge as they defied police and stalled traffic.

As the loosely-organized protests entered their third week, some 800 defiant demonstrators maintained a presence in New York's financial district Sunday, drying out their rain-soaked clothes, eating and organizing two major meetings.

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  • Discussion 1 : 03/10/2011 at 06:13 AM1

    The U.S after stirring up trouble in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Egypt is now getting a taste of it's own medicine. Remember that there is corruption and unbalanced income spread in EVERY nation but, when the economy is booming the people condone such happenings. When the economy is bad, every social evil gets seen through the microscope. People can take no more. War mongering started as a pass time but, has today become an expensive affair for the U.S. The Americans cornered and killed Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein - but the U.S economy is controlled by corporate greed that is no less dangerous than Bin Laden or Saddam.

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