Anti-Wall Street Protesters Target NYC Homes of Dimon, Murdoch
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The Occupy Wall Street movement and its labor-union allies took their fight to the homes of some of the New York City’s richest financiers to protest economic inequality and advocate higher taxes for the wealthy.
Several hundred people marched around Manhattan’s Upper East Side, past the homes of corporate executives who organizers said were “specifically chosen for their willingness to hoard wealth at the expense of the 99 percent” who don’t have it. Targets included Rupert Murdoch, John Paulson, Jamie Dimon and David Koch. The protesters cited data from Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz showing the top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the wealth.