 "Photo: Stephen Durda")
Volunteers from the Lyndon LaRouche political action committee hosted a demonstration concerning what they perceive to be a broken national financial system.
A man dressed as New York City investment banker Felix Rohatyn stopped passersby at a makeshift toll booth outside of the Texas Union as another volunteer disguised as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed students from a megaphone. A woman dressed as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was also in attendance.
Stephanie Nelson, a committee organizer, said the group, which frequently visits the UT campus, traveled from their office in Houston to start a discussion with the student community.
The LaRouche committee intends to revive the American system of political economy and the Franklin Roosevelt legacy, Nelson said. She said LaRouche represents the system of economics that values creativity of individuals in society.
"So you want everything in your society geared toward developing every single human individual's potential," she said.
Former UT student and committee volunteer Timothy Vance and his colleague Chris Landry were dressed in black and white stripes as a student loan debt slave and a foreclosed debt slave, respectively.
"We're here from the standpoint that the financial system is dead," Vance said. "The financial ship is already sunk, the bodies are just now floating to the surface in the form of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, all these major financial institutions, and right now there's a government bail out."
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