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 movements 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 todays 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 …
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