Salon.com > Occupy Pittsburgh http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 00:26:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Occupy Pittsburgh takes aim at bank in court http://www.salon.com/2012/01/11/occupy_pittsburgh_takes_aim_at_bank_in_court/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/11/occupy_pittsburgh_takes_aim_at_bank_in_court/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12030691 Protesters at one of the last remaining big-city physical occupations in the country, in Pittsburgh, are taking on a large bank in a legal battle over their right to camp in a downtown park.

Pro bono lawyers for Occupy Pittsburgh are in state court today for the second day of a hearing in a case brought by Bank of New York Mellon to evict protesters from a small park next to a BNY Mellon skyscraper. Protesters have used the legal dispute as a way to take aim at BNY Mellon’s business practices and highlight several criminal cases that are pending against the company.

“They’re not the most moral or ethical corporation,” says Jeff Cech, a 28-year-old member of Occupy Pittsburgh. “So what moral grounds do they have to essentially approach another group and say, ‘You’re doing something illegal’?”

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