Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Seattle to protest issues such as America’s continued involvement war and the fundamental corruption at the root of some of the current economic mess. Police ordered the large number of tents to be removed earlier this week, but protests continued into the weekend. Labor leaders threw their support behind the Occupy Seattle movement with a clear union presence in the crowd. The protest have caught the attention president Obama who commented on the crowd’s frustration:
“It expresses the frustrations that the American people feel that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street,” the president said. “And yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place.”
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