Billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg thought he was done with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators after he booted them out of Zuccotti Park last week, but he got a surprise on Sunday when many of those same protesters popped up in his plush Upper East Side hood.
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Yesterday, protesters gathered on 5th Avenue near 79th Street right around the corner from Mayor Bloomberg’s swanky townhouse and began drumming and chanting.
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Marian Swerdlow, 62, who lives in the neighborhood, told the New York Daily News:
“Bloomberg made a big mistake kicking the protesters out – now they’re everywhere. It’s going to keep spreading. He’ll see that this movement has support. He has to start treating people with respect.”
Swerdlow carried a sign stamped with three names: Mubarak, Ghadafi, and Bloomberg. The first two, notorious dictators toppled this year, were crossed out.
Will Bloomberg be toppled by the OWS’ers? Their voices haven’t slowed a bit since they were trounced from Zuccotti Park, if anything, the movement has gotten stronger.
