On September 25, 2008, filmmaker Laura Hanna took her camera to Wall Street and captured protesters gathered to express their opposition to the proposed Wall Street bailout. The $700 billion bailout Bush endorses has been widely unpopular with the public, the lack of support reaching beyond party affiliation or ideological sympathies. No more “privatizing profits and socializing losses,” declared one protester. “They live by the free market, let them die by the free market.”
–Erica Landau
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