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Boston area college students plan Wall St. protest

October 10, 2011

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BOSTON—Students from 10 area colleges are planning to join the Occupy Wall Street movement with a march through downtown Boston.

The protesters plan to gather Monday at 1:30 p.m. on Boston Common.

Student protesters said are they angry with an education industry they say mimics what they call the "irresponsible, unaccountable, and unethical financial practices" of Wall Street. They point to what they say are university presidents earning hundreds of thousands of dollars while other university workers struggle to make ends meet.

The Occupy Wall Street movement, which began with a small knot of protesters in Manhattan's financial district, has grown steadily. Last week about 300 members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association also joined the rally for the first time.

Similar protests have sprung up in other cities.