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Thursday, July 5, 2012

In Seattle, money does fall from the sky

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018604851_money05m.html

Activists tossed $5,000 off a downtown Seattle building Wednesday to protest money in politics.

Dollar bills came swirling down just after 5 p.m. at Seventh Avenue and Pike Street, to the delight of tourists.

The money was printed with the words "money as speech silences us all," a statement of protest against court rulings that consider political donations from businesses a form of free speech.

According to the activists' website, the money will go back into general circulation and get their message out.

Even though they dropped the money as a publicity stunt, representatives from Occupy Seattle and an affiliated group called #MicCheckWallSt would not comment afterward on the drop or how they pulled it off.

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