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Tax Day Protests, Los Angeles, California
April 17th (this year) was the deadline for those in The United States to have completed filing their income taxes. This year “Tax Day” was punctuated by protest rallies. The one pictured here took place in downtown Los Angeles’s Pershing Square at 4:30 pm and called on millionaires to support tax reforms. Singers and speakers voiced tax reform support. Actors played the parts of America’s millionaire 1% (AKA “tax dodgers”). The attending crowd was encouraged to play “dodge ball” with the “tax dodgers,” register to vote and sign forms supporting California Governor Jerry Brown’s New Revenue Plan, which will increase state revenue by $8 billion a year and guarantees funding for public services (such as teachers, police and firefighters). Protestors also turned their attention on raising public awareness of the Democrat’s Buffet Rule (a measure recently blocked by Senate Republicans) which would force the nation's top earners to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes.
Organized by Good Jobs LA (which includes members of Occupy LA and SEIU, the Service Employees International Union) the Tax Day protests included other activities. Over 1,000 people caused traffic delays and rolling street closures by marching through the Los Angeles financial district at noon. Banners were hung from downtown overpasses and intersections during the morning commute. And at 11:00 pm the gathering of signatures for the Governor’s initiative, from last minute tax-filers, continued at the Los Angeles Airport Post Office.
This photo was taken after the rally ended (and the ambulance had arrived for someone taken ill).
photographed Apr 17, 2012, Pershing Square, Los Angeles, California
Tax Day Protests, Los Angeles, California
April 17th (this year) was the deadline for those in The United States to have completed filing their income taxes. This year “Tax Day” was punctuated by protest rallies. The one pictured here took place in downtown Los Angeles’s Pershing Square at 4:30 pm and called on millionaires to support tax reforms. Singers and speakers voiced tax reform support. Actors played the parts of America’s millionaire 1% (AKA “tax dodgers”). The attending crowd was encouraged to play “dodge ball” with the “tax dodgers,” register to vote and sign forms supporting California Governor Jerry Brown’s New Revenue Plan, which will increase state revenue by $8 billion a year and guarantees funding for public services (such as teachers, police and firefighters). Protestors also turned their attention on raising public awareness of the Democrat’s Buffet Rule (a measure recently blocked by Senate Republicans) which would force the nation's top earners to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes.
Organized by Good Jobs LA (which includes members of Occupy LA and SEIU, the Service Employees International Union) the Tax Day protests included other activities. Over 1,000 people caused traffic delays and rolling street closures by marching through the Los Angeles financial district at noon. Banners were hung from downtown overpasses and intersections during the morning commute. And at 11:00 pm the gathering of signatures for the Governor’s initiative, from last minute tax-filers, continued at the Los Angeles Airport Post Office.
This photo was taken after the rally ended (and the ambulance had arrived for someone taken ill).
photographed Apr 17, 2012, Pershing Square, Los Angeles, California