Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Demonstrators briefly occupy Bank of America in downtown L.A.

Bank protest in downtown L.A.

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators marched through downtown Los Angeles' financial district Wednesday, ending their march at a Bank of America branch, where several dozen protesters put up tents in the lobby and on a brick plaza outside, organizers said.

Demonstrators, who sang and chanted as they filled the lobby with about 15 tents, told bank officials and police they wouldn't leave until a letter was faxed to Monica Lozano, a Bank of America board member and publisher of La Opinion, said Amy Schur, an organizer with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.

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"We want her to be our champion," Schur said. "We've all joined together to say let's make them pay: big banks, big corporations, the wealthy." 

When bank officials returned with a fax receipt, the protesters left the lobby, she said.

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