Joining in Massive Protests, Community Groups Available to Speak with Media

Leaders from the welfare/workforce and public housing campaigns at Community Voices Heard and leaders from VOCAL-NY, as well as allies from Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope, PUSH Buffalo, and VOICE-Buffalo.

Leaders of these low-income community organizing groups will be available to speak with press about why they are joining with groups around the country under the banner of “New Bottom Line” and with their allies at #OccupyWallStreet. Targets for this week’s protests include the homes of a few of the sixty-six billionaires that live in New York but refuse to pay their fair share in taxes; the midtown headquarters of some of the biggest Wall Street banks that caused the financial crisis, destroyed jobs and stole homes; and, political donors in New York City, Yonkers, Newburgh and Poughkeepsie who are pressuring state legislators to advance a tax cut for New York’s millionaires and billionaires (i.e. the “millionaires tax”).

Low-income community leaders speaking on-site at direct actions throughout the city, including at the homes of billionaires, bank branches, and at the workplaces of political donors.