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Police attack/ threaten Occupy Wall Street Camps

nasty looking NY cop spots an Occupier

What happened tonight? Occupy Wall Street camps in (at least) Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis, Seattle, and Boston were all threatened with eviction and arrest. Police moved in with a show of force in the late hours… but only in Boston did they actually make arrests, and only to shut down camp #2.

So… what the hell? Police forces in five major cities all just happened to decide to make a major alpha-male display on the same night? And all backed down, except for Boston – where the cops took out the smaller, overflow camp.

This is weird. And creepy. And stinks of some kind of national coordination.

As Randi Harper (@freebsdgirl) tweeted:

Both the mayors from Boston and Seattle told us one thing, but the police followed different orders. Where did these orders come from?

Boston police used the lamest excuse in history for why they had to arrest the occupiers: “To protect the new delicate plantings in the park”. Watch this great video, which shows Boston police violently throwing demonstrators through the oh-so-delicate plantings they were protecting from those messy, inconsiderate occupiers:

Source: Red Green & Blue (http://s.tt/13uh2)

15 Oct. Occupy to kill Capitalism, .. now 955 demos +..

They say Capitalism is about to collapse. Lets give it a push!  Time to jump in! Only if we all jump together can we change the lunatic system we live under.

For an end to debt and money… No leaders , No parties, just us.. For a co-op world!

The map now marks 648 Occupations and demos, with 4 days to go!

Destroying the Banks in favour of a phased in Money-Free system.  Banning Hierarchical, sexist and homophobic organizations.  A minimum world wage, or free rations of basic goods. Abolishing armies and war. Community Co-operatives instead of companies. Phasing out of the Oil Economy in favour of renewables and NH3 fuel.  Banning GMO’s.  Collectivising excess private property.  Abolition of the Prisons and police system…. 

El 15 de Octubre del 2011 va a ser una fecha inolvidable para la raza humana. Este sera el primer encuentro UNIVERSAL de ciudadanos por un mundo mejor.
NO es un tema de ideas políticas, religión o filosofía.
El asunto es sobre cuanto nos importa nuestro futuro y el futuro de la Tierra

OccupyWallSt: Cops arrest 700 / Big Unions joining in

700 arrested marching over Brooklyn Bridge

More than 700 people from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement have been briefly arrested for marchimng on New York’s City’s Brooklyn Bridge, police say.

They were part of a larger group crossing the bridge from Manhattan, where they have been camped out near Wall Street for two weeks.

“We are unions, students, teachers, veterans, first responders, families, the unemployed and underemployed. We are all races, sexes and creeds. We are the majority. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.” read more at Occupy Wall Street website and occupytogether.org.

NYPD Mass Arrests of Occupy Wall Street Protesters

UPDATE, 6:07 pm Kristen reports via text: ”Now it’s raining. There are still hundreds of us, people are putting backpacks on their fronts, so cops don’t take them when we’re arrested.”

She says that rumors in the crowd include the suggestion that the Lawyers Guild is working on bail money for the arrested protesters and negotiations with the cops. She says, “a friend told me there’s a rumor this is over. It’s not over.”

As for morale? The remaining protesters are huddled together under umbrellas singing “this little light of mine.”

A Massive Union Just Voted To Side With Protesters

According to Daily Kos, The New York Transit Workers Union (TWU) voted to support the Wall Street Protestors at their meeting last night. A member of TWU Local 100 told a reporter that they would join the protest Friday at 4PM.

Here’s more about them from their website: The TWU has four main divisions: Railroad; Gaming; Airline; Transit; and Utility, University and Service. The Union has 114 autonomous locals representing over 200,000 members and retirees in 22 states around the country.

Occupy Wall Street has been picking up some decent support from unions in the past few days. Yesterday we reported that the Teamsters Union declared their support for protestors, and we also found out that the United Pilots Union had members at the protest demonstrating in uniform.

Today we learned the Industrial Workers of the World put a message of support on their website as well.

UPDATE: Verizon union workers have joined the protestors in NYC.

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20111001135826694

Click here to see the protestor’s list of demands >

 

Occupy Wall St spreading Day 11.

A Message From Occupied Wall Street (Day Eleven)

Posted Sept. 28, 2011, 9:53 a.m. EST by

This is the eleventh communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street. We will not be moved.

On September 27th, 2011, many friends participated in our democratic process.

General Assemblies are forming country-wide, worldwide. We are everywhere.

#occupyboston (Click Here for the flyer)

On September 27th, 2011, we marched on the Financial District’s Luxury Night Out, where couples wore outfits that cost more than

we will ever make in a month and looked at cars that cost more than we will ever make in a year, afterward, they went back to one of their many houses that cost more than we will make in our lifetime.

Occupied Boston doesn’t need a bullhorn to have their voices heard. They have the people’s microphone.

So does Michael Moore, who addressed us tonight.

Occupied San Francisco grows larger every day.

Occupied Chicago was dispersed but not defeated. They will regroup and reoccupy.

So far at least 52 cities in America are occupied or organizing. We span at least three continents.

Add your home. Make your voice heard.

We are growing. Block by block – city by city. We will see change in this country, in this world.

It will happen sooner than you can imagine.

Noam Chomsky Announces Solidarity With #occupywallstreet

Posted Sept. 26, 2011, 6:57 p.m. EST by

a few prosper..billions suffer

Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street — financial institutions generally — has caused severe damage to the people of the United States (and the world)

. And should also know that it has been doing so increasingly for over 30 years, as their power in the economy has radically increased, and with it their political power. That has set in motion a vicious cycle that has concentrated immense wealth, and with it political power, in a tiny sector of the population, a fraction of 1%, while the rest increasingly become what is sometimes called “a precariat” — seeking to survive in a precarious existence. They also carry out these ugly activities with almost complete impunity — not only too big to fail, but also “too big to jail.”

The courageous and honorable protests underway in Wall Street should serve to bring this calamity to public attention, and to lead to dedicated efforts to overcome it and set the society on a more healthy course.

Noam Chomsky

 

Desalojo CSO Guatimozín, / Save Squatted Social center

cartel antiguo del Centro Social Okupado

APOYO AL DESALOJO CSO GUATIMOZÍN, (Granada, Estado Español)

INMINENTE DESALOJO DEL CSO GUATIMOZÍN.
GUATIMOZÍN 3 (JUNTO A PLAZA ALIATAR)
SE NECESITA GENTE PARA AYUDAR DESDE HOY MISMO MARTES 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE TODO EL QUE PUEDA QUE SE ACERQUE URGENTEMENTE.
DIFUNDE Y COLABORA

Publicado por CSOA15Gatxs en 09:14

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is Roaring Strong

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET

Saturday, September 24 2011 @ 12:54 AM CDT

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a week old and roaring strong. We, the people, are finding our voice, realizing that, yes we can revive our democracy. It is beautiful. It is an achievement. And it has the potential to grow into something even more wild and wonderful over the next few weeks and months. This Saturday at noon at the people’s assembly in Liberty Plaza there will be a celebration of our incredible first week. Last Saturday, 5,000 people flocked nonviolently to Wall Street … this Saturday there will be 10,000. And then in the weeks that follow, we will swell to 50,000 … and maybe even to 100,000+ by mid-October. Wouldn’t that be something!

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET this Saturday

Wall Street occupiers Blocked

Attempts to Occupy Wall Street have so far been blocked by a heavy police presence.

Details of arrests or injuries are still lacking

Protesters blocked in bid to ‘occupy’ Wall Street

Hundreds of people marched Saturday near Wall Street in New York in an attempt to occupy the heart of global finance to protest greed, corruption and budget cuts. Plans by protesters to turn Lower Manhattan into an “American Tahrir Square” was thwarted when police blocked all the streets near the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan. The demonstrators had planned to stake out Wall Street until their anger over a financial system they say favors the rich and powerful was heard.

“The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99 Percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the one percent,” said a statement on the website Occupy Wall Street.

By noon, about 700 people, many carrying backpacks and sleeping bags, had gathered near Wall Street to search for a place to camp amid a heavy police presence. The protesters who did arrive were full of zeal and righteous indignation.

“This is a protest against corporate greed and we come to Wall Street because Wall Street is the Ground Zero for corporate greed,” said Julia River Hitt, a 22-year-old philosophy student.

“We are here just to say we are fed up, we are not gonna take it anymore.”

The protesters gathered in Trinity Place, some some 1,000 feet (300 meters) from Wall Street, which they hope to turn into the US version of the famous square in Cairo that became the focal point of protests that led to the ouster of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak in February. “No more corruption,” read one sign a demonstrator brandished. “Wall St Greed, New Yorkers Say Enough,” read another. “I will sleep here. A lot of us we will sleep here,” said Steven Taylor, 24 a protester who arrived equipped with a backpack and a sleeping bag.

Youths shared food and discussed the economic crisis in groups of 15 and 20. Others marched around the square.

Among the group was Javier Dorado, a law professor from Spain who compared the protesters with the mass “indignant” demonstrations in his country against high unemployment, welfare cuts and corruption. “This is a global phenomenon that is taking place in Europe and many countries,” Dorado said.

The protest came as the United States struggles to overcome an economic crisis marked by a huge budget deficit that has triggered cuts in the public service sector while unemployment hovers stubbornly above nine percent. “There’s a war in Libya, there’s a war in Afghanistan, there’s a war in Iraq and we have cuts in education, social programs,” said a masked protester who declined to be identified.

“We know where the money is going! Revolution in America!

AGENCE FRANCE PRESS