Less than 20 miles from the Kean campus thousands of Occupy Wall Street protestors marched from Zuccotti Park in the financial district to Foley Square and the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday’s OWS Day of Action. The Occupy Wall Street website marked the Day of Action as the commemoration of the two month anniversary of the birth of the 99% Movement. According to CNN, the police said 245 people had been arrested in the city by 8 p.m.
Since September the protestors, many of whom are students and recent graduates (read more on Occupy Colleges here), have gathered in Zuccotti Park to protest against corporate greed, corruption and economic inequality between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population they call the 99%.
Last month Her Campus Kean contributor Brittany Irvine and over a dozen Tower reporters interviewed Kean students to find out what they thought about the OWS movement. Check out the findings here.
(Photo Credit: Will Fu, senior at Parsons The New School for Design)