The zombie theatre is coming to Bay Street. The cast and crew in business wear with white faces and blood, munching monopoly money, will be greeting the suits of the Street on their way to work.
It could be the Canadian chapter of the ongoing and fast spreading, Occupy Wall Street protest where raucous crowds of protesters dressed as corporate zombies marched past the New York Stock Exchange in a show of anger over the rocky economy and “corporate greed”.
A report on the Time magazine website stated these “Wall-Street style demonstrations with names like Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Chicago, and Occupy Boston were staged in front of Federal Reserve buildings in those cities. And signs of support were rearing up outside the U.S. In Canada, a Wall Street rally is planned for later this month in Toronto.”
In what is being considered “a slice of America’s discontented”, these protests typically feature participants from “college students worried about their job prospects to middle-age workers who have been recently laid off.”
The Occupy Wall Street protests which started Sept. 17 in front of the New York Stock Exchange with a few dozen demonstrators, have since grown in size and popularity “and have become increasingly organized, lining up medical aid and legal help and printing their own newspaper, the Occupied Wall Street Journal.”
The movement is gaining momentum in Toronto as calls are being made for public relations professional or student who are “interested in working with Occupy Toronto” and who “understands the Occupy Movement.”
The movement’s official website lists vital items. They include heat generators, tarps, thermal blankets, sleeping bags, cardboard, cold/flu medicine or remedies, first aid kits, mobile wifi adapters, etc. They even have a Facebook page. They, dear friends, mean business.
You may close your eyes and hope this is just imagination. Sadly, this ain’t a thriller. They’re out to get you.