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They are the kind of people who would normally find no reason to linger in New York’s financial district – people wearing hooded tops, biker jackets and plaid shirts – but for a week they have been camping there.
All are anti-Wall Street protesters, but with barricades and swarms of police officers in front of the New York Stock Exchange the closest they can get to their target is Liberty Street, a good three streets away.
An online activist group called Adbusters organised the gathering and the word spread through social media.
With attention focused sharply on the financial markets and many US citizens suffering hardships undreamed of in the 1980s and 1990s, campaigners thought they could pull in thousands to join them but although the campaign – broadly known as “Occupy Wall Street” – has attracted people from thousands of miles away, only about 50 people are currently involved.
