Occupy 90210 Protest at Will Rogers Memorial Park Wednesday

In opposition to President Barack Obama's latest fundraising visit to the Los Angeles area and the role that large donations play in American politics, a group of protesters are meeting at Wednesday from 4-7:30 p.m.

The group "Occupy 90210" invited people to join the protest in a message posted on its Facebook page:

While Obama in the home of a 1 percent TV producer, we will be one and a half miles away occupying Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills to highlight the corrupting role that Big Money plays in politics. In the aftermath of the Citizens United decision, it is expected that the 2012 presidential race will cost an unprecedented $2,000,000,000. Furthermore, Obama recently announced that he will accept SuperPAC money, which enables wealthy people and corporations to donate unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns. What does this decision say about our leader? To whom will Obama be accountable? The millions of Americans who are poor, hungry and homeless in this country or the 1 percent of the population that can afford to spend $35,800 on dinner with the President? 

The Citizens United decision refers to a January 2010 Supreme Court ruling that the government cannot ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

Wednesday's Occupy 90210 protest is also raising money to support the Hunger Action L.A.'s Veggie Voucher program, which doubles the purchasing power of food stamps at farmers' markets.

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