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Occupy Wall Street activists have denounced Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

15 March,2012 09:16 pm

Occupy Wall Street activists targeted a Mitt Romney fundraiser at a luxury Manhattan hotel on Wednesday, denouncing the Republican presidential candidate but also taking shots at all the contenders.Several hundred protesters circled the Waldorf-Astoria that hosted Romney and his supporters. The demonstrators walked behind a coffin marked with gold dollar signs and topped with an urn shooting out flames they said represented job cremation.Some posed as the grim reaper, wearing Romney masks and black tunics and carrying sickles to make their claim that the presidential hopeful made a fortune as a consultant pushing job cuts at struggling companies.College professor Stewart Leonard held up a sign that read: Will Work for Caviar — poking fun at Romneys position that he would create more jobs.Near the Park Avenue hotel, protesters chanted that the wealthy candidate is the 1 percent They said money being raised for him comes from privileged Americans, not the other 99 percent.An Occupy Wall Street banner spread out on a sidewalk read: Romney: 100 percent Out of Touch. Signs sprinkled among the protesters read: Multimillionaires for Romney.