Teamsters take the "Billionaires Walking Tour" to Sotheby's-linked homes

On New York's Fifth Avenue, Teamsters and other groups supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement are taking a walking tour of billionaires' homes. They'll stop by the homes of Benedict Arnold David Koch, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, and a selection of art collecters tied to Sotheby's.

It is, after all, the Sotheby's Economy. We just suffer from it.

The four Sotheby's socialites whose homes will be visited include art collecters -- heiress Agnes Gund, David Ganek and J. Tomilson & Janine Hill -- and Sotheby's board member John Angelo.

Some tweets:

@LucyKafanov: #OWS #millionairemarch Southeby's Teamsters chanting outside of Koch house. March continuing down Park Avenue

@Elana_Brooklyn: We r outside Sotheby's board member apt. He's locked out workers. We want a fair contract #99ny #ows

@julpepitone: Sotheby's Teamsters here protesting at 59th and 5th saying the art house has been unfair in myriad ways #ows

@Marc-Beja: Outside David Koch's house, #ows protesters chant, 'no justice, no peace.' Next Park Ave. Billionaire's house stop: Harold Millstein

@elliottjustin: Security guard from window of posh apartment building to marchers: "we love you!" #99ny #ows

@theother99: Crowds on the Upper East Side mostly accommodating. Police have done excellent job directing traffic. March now at Park Ave and 71st.. #OWS

The marchers' message is to preserve New York's 2 percent tax on millionaires. firedoglake tells us they'll

...present oversized symbolic checks representing the additional monies that will begin to line the pockets of the 1% once the New York State “millionaire’s tax” expires the end of this year.

The marchers are meeting up at the corner of 59th Street and 5th Avenue at noonish. The march sets off at 12:30 after a brief rally at 59th. For non New Yorkers, this is the iconic corner in front of the Plaza Hotel at the Southeast corner of Central Park. There is a plaza out front, officially known as Grand Army Plaza with the Pulitzer Fountain at its heart, which gives the hotel its name....

From the plaza, the march will head up Fifth Avenue to Rupert Murdoch’s home between 63rd & 64th on Fifth Ave, then move on to David Koch’s residence at 71st & Fifth. Eventually they will end up at JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s home at 93rd & Park.

The weather is perfect for a brisk autumn walk. There will be speakers at each stop to explain the specifics of the huge tax windfall that each billionaire is slated to receive when New York’s millionaires tax expires on December 31st.