28-12-2011, 08:01 AM
NEW YORK More than a month after Occupy Wall Street activists were removed from a Manhattan park, the bronze bull where the movement started is still surrounded by police barricades and some New Yorkers want them down.
Arthur Picollo, who chairs the Bowling Green Association community alliance, tells the New York Post that it's "outlandish" to keep visitors away from one of the city's most popular monuments. Occupy protesters first gathered by the bull on Sept. 17, before building their encampment in nearby Zuccotti Park.
Police evicted them from the privately owned public park in mid-November.
Authorities say the bull that symbolizes Wall Street wealth must be protected because it's a possible target of vandalism.
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Arthur Picollo, who chairs the Bowling Green Association community alliance, tells the New York Post that it's "outlandish" to keep visitors away from one of the city's most popular monuments. Occupy protesters first gathered by the bull on Sept. 17, before building their encampment in nearby Zuccotti Park.
Police evicted them from the privately owned public park in mid-November.
Authorities say the bull that symbolizes Wall Street wealth must be protected because it's a possible target of vandalism.
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"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass