Occupy Vancouver protesters take over downtown TD Bank, Twitter reports say

by Stephen Hui on Oct 22, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Protesters occupy a TD Bank outlet in Vancouver.
Occupy Vancouver

Protesters linked to the week-old Occupy Vancouver demonstration took control of a downtown TD Bank branch, according to multiple Twitter reports.

Activists participating in a Run on the Banks march also reportedly targeted branches of CIBC, BMO, and RBC today (October 22).

Occupy Vancouver's Twitter account stated: "The #RunOnTheBanks march is happening NOW! Just a reminder: This is not #OccupyVancouver official--its just an offshoot. Still cool though!"

A video posted online appears to show protesters dancing to music inside a TD Bank.

Update (4:55 p.m.):

This live stream is apparently broadcasting the scene outside the TD.

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Rodney DeCroo
Oct 22, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Right on!!!
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Dean
Oct 22, 2011 at 5:48 pm
I thought these where going to be peaceful protests? Isn't going on a banks property without the intention of doing business trespassing?
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tim.
Oct 22, 2011 at 6:37 pm
@dean, what's your point? going on the bank's property is a peaceful protest.
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alexthegreat
Oct 22, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Oh dear! Trespassing! These hardened criminals should never see the light of day ever again.
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McPhee
Oct 22, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Really Dean?!?!

Are you really that daft?
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Raven Morris
Oct 22, 2011 at 6:58 pm
@Dean:

They have been peaceful protests, no people or property have been hurt.

The other thing you describe has nothing to do with non-peaceful behaviour, it is merely occupying a public space en masse, and if something was illegal, such as various forms of civil disobedience, that does not automatically make the protests non-peaceful.

Remember, the opposite of a peaceful person is warmonger, and this country is actually a democracy. The sky is not falling.
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The real 99%
Oct 22, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Go home everyone.
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It was peaceful
Oct 22, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Other than a select few who seemed to want to push the envelope (by doing stupid shit like sitting on a limo in the middle of the street before having to be asked by police to get down), it was peaceful. People were closing out their accounts, and other marchers were just there to show support, as some of the banks tried to refuse to let people take their money out (despite it belonging to them, not the banks).
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John S
Oct 23, 2011 at 8:22 am
Wow. Free advertising for TD. That didn't just backfire in any way at all.
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Sam Squanch
Oct 23, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Don't any of these individuals have to work?
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Harold Graphene
Oct 23, 2011 at 4:56 pm
@Sam Squanch and all the people that say "they should be working"

I work 5 days a week running a machinery shop. I try to make it out as much as I can. If we're working how can we have our voice heard? Shall we continue to be sheep and do what all the people with money say? Shall we vote for all the parties lobbied by big corporations that don't care for peoples well being, the environment and so on?

Also speaking about the environment, NASA took pictures of the Northpole in 2000 and then again in 2010. There is a siginificant change between the two. There hasnt been a significant change like this in tens of millions of years. Is it not obvious that this will impact everything brutally very soon?
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bert tipton
Oct 23, 2011 at 11:16 pm
according to what i have heard and read the protesters at the banks where shouting they got bailed out we got sold out. american banks got bailed out- no canadian banks where bailed out, but what the heck why confuse me with the facts i'm protesting. some of these people should remember a very old saying "the world owes you a living but you have to work hard to get it" love protests they are better than most sitcoms
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