Goldman Protests Feature Swamp Creatures Vowing to Stay All Week
- Organizer: ‘We are here to launch an encampment at Goldman’
- Earlier rally ended after police ejected activists from lobby
Protestors rally outside the Goldman Sachs headquarters, demanding that President Elect Donald Trujmp 'drain the swamp' of advisors from the company that have joined his administration, in New York, New York, Tuesday January 17, 2017. Photograph: Victor J. Blue
Photographer: Victor J. Blue/BloombergProtesters, this time dressed as swamp creatures, returned to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s headquarters in downtown New York on Tuesday, pledging to stay for the week as they demonstrate against the bank’s influence in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
More than 60 people gathered outside of the building, chanted slogans and waved banners as police officers and bemused office workers looked on. Some participants wore monster masks or laid out sleeping bags on tarps along the wet and frigid sidewalk.