Local 100 Played Key Role in Largest "Wall Street" March Yet

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TWU Local 100 played a principal role in organizing the largest demonstration so far in the ongoing Occupy Wall Street struggle. Some 15,000 workers, union members, and just plain Americans fed up with government inaction and broken promises massed in Foley Square in downtown Manhattan on October 5 and then made the half-mile march to Liberty Square, also known as Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district. Before the crowd stepped off, they heard speeches from labor leaders and Occupy Wall Street representatives. All echoed the same theme: the Wall Street bankers who imploded the economy and received taxpayer funded bailouts are doing just fine, while the average American family sees a bleak outlook for the future. Inequality in America has exploded in the last decade, with the top one percent controlling a greater percentage of the nation’s wealth since the Gilded Age of the 1920’s.  TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen said: “We’re down with these protesters. We’re in this fight.”

At Zuccotti Park, TWU Local 100 Administrative Vice President Angel Giboyeaux spoke about the link between the Wisconsin protests and Occupy Wall Street. Click here to see his interview.