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发帖数: 1094 | 1 真是太搞了，原来说是给华尔街把钱都掳走了，现在刚刚开始管理这个"占领华尔街运
动"的经费就马上也从99%变成1%了...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/they_want_lice_of_
From the article:
"Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank,
and donations continue to pour in -- but its reluctance to share the wealth
with other protesters is fraying tempers.
Some drummers -- incensed they got no money to replace or safeguard their
drums after a midnight vandal destroyed their instruments Wednesday -- are
threatening to splinter off.
“F--k Finance. I hope Mayor Bloomberg gets an injunction and demands to see
the movement’s books. We need to know how much money we really have and
where it’s going,” said a frustrated Bryan Smith, 45, who joined OWS in
Lower Manhattan nearly three weeks ago from Los Angeles, where he works in
TV production.
Smith is a member of the Comfort Working Group -- one of about 30 small
collectives that have sprung up within OWS. The Comfort group is charged
with finding out what basic necessities campers need, like thermal underwear
, and then raising money by soliciting donations on the street.
“The other day, I took in $2,000. I kept $650 for my group, and gave the
rest to Finance. Then I went to them with a request -- so many people need
things, and they should not be going without basic comfort items -- and I
was told to fill out paperwork. Paperwork! Are they the government now?”
Smith fumed, even as he cajoled the passing crowd for more cash.
The Finance Committee dives on whatever dollars are raised by all the OWS
working groups, said Smith, and doesn’t give it back.
The Comfort group has an allowance of $150 a day, while larger working
groups, like the Kitchen group, get up to $2,000.
“What can I do with $150?” said Smith. “We have three tons of wet laundry
here from the rainstorm -- how do I get that done? We need winter gear,
shoes, socks. I could spend $10,000 alone for backpacks people need. We
raise all this money. Where is it?”
Pete Dutro, 36, a Brooklyn tattoo artist who is getting a master’s in
finance and sits on the Finance Committee, said big purchases like Smith’s
can’t get immediate approval.
“We don’t have the power for that. They have to go to the General Assembly
. If it’s approved, we pay out that amount and make sure everything is
accounted for,” he said.
Within the next few days, the Financial Committee will release a detailed
report, he said.
Yesterday, a huge flat-screen TV went up in Zuccotti Park for a movie night
and pajama party with popcorn. Organizers hoped it would attract new
recruits -- even as some long-timers complained that the movement was
getting too diffuse after yesterday’s lackluster showing at a police-
brutality event in Union Square that barely attracted 50 participants.
“I think it’s getting too spread out,” said John Glowa, 57. “My sense
from where I live is that it’s losing steam. We gotta plug the holes.”
Some activists, like those in Pulse, the committee that represents Zuccotti
Park drummers, are a bit worn out by all the collective activity.
Last week, on a rainy night, someone stabbed holes in many of the protesters
’ drums with a knife, said Elijah Moses, 19, of Queens, a founder of the
Pulse Working Group. Moses asked the General Assembly -- the nightly meeting
where protesters collectively vote on OWS decisions -- for $8,000 to
replace the drums, and build a small shed to lock them up.
“They said no -- they turned us down. I’m really frustrated,” said Moses. |
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