FEMEN Protest In NYC Occupy Wall Street

Yesterday, 17 November, the American branch of the women's movement FEMEN carried out an action on Wall Street in New York City in protest against the repressive power over activists Occupy Wall Street. American activist FEMEN appeared at the police cordoned the street at 9 o'clock in the morning and occupied the Wall Street to its topless protest. The girls, with placards in their hands and crowns on their heads, freedom, and demanded withdrawal of the American police in the line of the tent camp occupants. In response to demands FEMEN police attempted to arrest activists of movement.

The women's movement FEMEN, through its American activists, requires the City of New York, Mayor Bloomberg and the police take his hands away from the peaceful protesters and let them back in Zuccotti Park. FEMEN condemns expulsion of Protestant tenants from Central Park in New York and calls for international condemnation of acts of the city authorities and police need to condemn them for abuse, neglect constitutional rights, freedom of speech and protest.

FEMEN-USA condemns the brutal attitude the New York Police in relation to female occupants, many of which expelled from Zuccotti Park and arrested. Activists FEMEN-USA-known instances of ill-treatment of arrested women in police stations. On the streets of New York American FEMEN chanting "Hands off our sisters!"

See pictures of the protest here.

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