Susan Sarandon lends support to Wall Street protest

Susan Sarandon attends the Lela Rose Spring 2012 fashion show on Sept. 11, 2011, in New York.

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(CBS) NEW YORK - Actress Susan Sarandon has joined protesters camping out in lower Manhattan to demonstrate against corporate greed and social inequality.

The Oscar-winning star, who has a long history of social activism, toured an area with a makeshift kitchen and library on Tuesday afternoon.

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According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Sarandon said she was there to lend support to the effort to address "the huge gap between the rich and the poor."

The 64-year-old star, who won an Oscar for her role as a nun in 1995"s "Dead Man Walking," appeared last year in Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps"

The Occupy Wall Street protest is in its second week. So far, nearly 100 demonstrators have been arrested, many of them taken into custody Saturday after police used pepper spray on those marching north to Union Square.

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore joined the protesters in an appearance of support on Monday.

[noloyalisti]

I LOVE it brucearnold, this is NOT left vs right but rather top (2%) vs bottom (98%). We need to get ALL corporate money out of politics. We need to impeach right wingers on the Supreme Court who have been bought out by the corporations.

The giant corporations and the filthy, greedy rich have gone too far!

[Dee748]

You people keep forgetting to mention that Roseanne Barr was also there and spoke to the crowd!

[brucearnold]

I am not Anonymous. I am an American.

I am not just a Consumer. I am a Citizen.

I will no longer be labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.

I will no longer follow Puppets labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.

I am the People. And I am coming for the Puppetmasters.

I am part of the 99 Percent. And I demand the following:

1. End the Fed.

2. Reverse Citizens United.

3. Repeal PATRIOT Act.

4. Expose 9/11 Truth.

5. End Profit Wars.

6. Refund Taxpayer Trillions.

7. Imprison the Kleptocrats.

8. Single Term Limits.

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[train99]

Susan sure keeps looking good. I'd take her over women half her age.