You broke it, you bought it
This past Thursday afternoon I headed downtown to take pictures of a protest of the Wall Street bailout for a class assignment. I arrived early and found a couple of guys offering fliers to passersby near the bull sculpture at Bowling Green. They told me they’d learned about the event online and didn’t know exactly who had organized it. As I waited for the action to begin, I watched tourists taking photos of their friends standing next to the bull’s hindquarters or groping its legendary testicles.
Eventually protesters, journalists and onlookers began gathering at the site. The crowd of demonstrators included Socialists, members of Code Pink and other anti-war groups, and individual New Yorkers angered by the proposed government rescue of financial institutions. Spectators looked on curiously as cops advised people to stay out of the street. (more…)