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Website lets wealthy 1% show support for the other 99%

Many of those posting statements and photos on the site in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests are the children of well-off parents. While members of the so-called 99% take part in Occupy Wall Street protests, a new website lets some of the wealthy 1% declare their support for the movement.

 

Michael Moore confesses: I am the 1 percent

Filmmaker Michael Moore, who has been supporting the Occupy Wall Street protesters this week, has come clean and admitted that he is indeed among the nation’s wealthiest citizens, but without providing details of just how rich he is.

 

Occupy camps in Nashville, San Diego broken up

Occupy camps in Nashville, San Diego broken up

Police overnight cleared out protesters in Nashville, Tenn., and San Diego, Calif., as other Occupy encampments came under growing pressure from authorities to abandon sites in parks and plazas.

Senh: With the police involved in breaking up these camps, I wonder how the Occupy Wall Street movement can continue peacefully.

 

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