Occupy wall streeters plan to shut down stock exchange swarm subways

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The Occupy Wall Streeters are about to create chaos for 99 percent of the city. In one of the largest demonstrations in recent city history, the anti-greed rabble plans to swarm the subways, take over the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down the stock exchange today. Tens of thousands of protesters — fresh off their eviction from Zuccotti Park — are expected to kick off the day of chaos around 7 a.m. by throwing a massive block party on Wall Street aimed at disrupting the trading day. PROTESTERS GATHER NEAR ZUCCOTTI PARK “We will shut down Wall Street,” a post on the movement’s Facebook page said. “We will remind the 1% and their representative Michael Bloomberg that you cannot stop an idea whose time has come!” The NYPD is preparing for all-out war — adding an extra 1,000 cops per shift. The mobilization is on par with the 2004 Republican National Convention — although today’s protests marking the two-month mark of the movement are expected to be far more widespread. Demonstrators will fan out to transit hubs in all five boroughs at around 3 p.m. — and plan to flood the subways and Staten Island Ferry just in time for the evening commute. (Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com …