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fix this bridge, create jobs now. if you actually look here at that local footage, you can actually see the big fix this bridge banner that they wanted to there it is. that they wanted to hang up there. but like i said, the protesters and their banner failed to march onto the bridge because according to the boston herald at the time police told protesters that the aging structure, the bridge, would buckle if they all walked onto it. point made, right? marching onto the decrepit bridge to point out how decrepit it is is too dangerous because the bridge is so decrepit it might not support the protesters weight. that scene on the charlestown bridge was last month. today in dozens of cities across the country protesters were back at their local structurally deficient and otherwise bridges. making essentially the same argument, fix, rebuild, invest, and refurbish this country back into prosperity. enact public policy that benefits the many and not just the rich few. ....
Bridge banner that they wanted to there it is. that they wanted to hang up there. but like i said, the protesters and their banner failed to march onto the bridge because according to the boston herald at the time police told protesters that the aging structure, the bridge, would buckle if they all walked onto it. point made, right? marching onto the decrepit bridge to point out how decrepit it is is too dangerous because the bridge is so decrepit it might not support the protesters weight. that scene on the charlestown bridge was last month. today in dozens of cities across the country protesters were back at their local structurally deficient and otherwise bridges. making essentially the same argument, fix, rebuild, invest, and refurbish this country back into prosperity. enact public policy that benefits the many and not just the rich few. spend on infrastructure to put people to work building it and so we can all benefit from it economically and otherwise. and in the context ....
Republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. so president obama went to the bridge is that straddles the home states of two of the most powerful republicans in congress and said if congress passed the bill the american jobs act would replace that bridge and other structurally deficient bridges like it across the country. one such structurally deficient bridge is the charlestown bridge in boston, where protesters tried and failed last month to march. they did march to the bridge, but they failed to march on it. and you re looking live again from sky 5 at the charlestown bridge. there is a bit of a standoff with police not allowing anybody on the bridge. and part of the reason why they wanted to go to that bridge is that many of the union protesters who are joining them at this hour believe if we repaired bridges like that one there would be more jobs. the boston globe reported that week that the protesters had wanted to hang a sign on the charlestown bridge that said fix th ....
Side of civil rights protesters because as they re coming across that bridge they re turned back by the violence of local police. now, in this case what s been happening is that the occupiers are connecting with these local municipalities, with the mayors or with the police officers. and as fraught as that has been, as much as that has energized the movement and i think gotten even more people on the side of occupiers, it doesn t address this, as you say, parallel track. those local officials are under some of the same constraints that the 99% are. they are trying to deliver more and more services with fewer and fewer resources. and so that battle is insufficient. the real fight is this fight that is about whether or not we re going to actually govern in this country on behalf of the majority. how does that happen, though? how does that happen historically? you re making the analogy with the civil rights movement. but i guess even if we can just try to understand it cognitively, how ....
One of the other largest protests today was in los angeles, in that city s financial district. protesters marched to the 4th street bridge in l.a. it spans the los angeles river. it was built 80 years ago, that bridge was. two dozen protesters in los angeles were arrested. even as the context feels different and the relationship between people protesting in the streets and police in the streets feels different over time and it has a much different history for this protest movement than it did a couple of months ago, what still stands in the middle of this conversation are these bridges, including that charlestown bridge where protesters marched to but not on last month. protesters were back today at least near the charlestown bridge. according to organizers, they planned it this way. protesters will only march to the base of this bridge because it is so structurally unsound. rivets on it haven t been used since the 1930s. that s what happened in the country today, in the streets toda ....