Occupy Wall Street live - Day of Action

Cannon Shell · #1 11-17-2011, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot

Where are you getting that from? I've been listening to the livestream in the other window for the past couple hours. Who is trying to start trouble?

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Riot · #2 11-17-2011, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

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Watch the livestream, not Dells dreams. They are at the bridge.

dellinger63 · #3 11-17-2011, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot

Watch the livestream, not Dells dreams. They are at the bridge.

They're jumping?

Riot · #4 11-18-2011, 03:45 PM

marched across the Brooklyn Bridge. Occupy was joined by union workers after 5:00pm

Don't bother to look to Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS if you want to find out what happened yesterday at Occupy Wall Street New York, and 100 other cities internationally, on the "November 17 Day of Action".

News helicopter (Fox 5 ) video of the now- famous "We are the 99%" tone poem that was the laser light show broadcast on the side of the Verizon Building as thousands crossed the Brooklyn Bridge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxG4g62rnd8

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http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/...py_wall_street

Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism

Retired New York Supreme Court Judge, legal observer at OWS, yesterday observes unwarranted police breaking of law and violence.

Note: legal observers wear neon-green hats to identify themselves, and are legally present and able to independently observe all arrest processes. They can go anywhere to observe.

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We are also joined by Stephen Graham, author of "Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism," and by retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, who worked as a legal observer Tuesday morning in New York after the police raided the Occupy Wall Street encampment.

"I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested... As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, 'I need to get in. My daughter's there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, 'Move on, lady.' And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying.

And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he throws her to the ground and starts hitting her in the head," says Smith. "I walk over, and I say, 'Look, cuff her if she's done something, but you don’t need to do that.’ And he said, 'Lady, do you want to get arrested?' And I said, 'Do you see my hat? I'm here as a legal observer.’ He said, 'You want to get arrested?' And he pushed me up against the wall." [includes rush transcript]

Danzig · #5 11-20-2011, 06:53 PM

'peaceful' protesters set up a new camp...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BA7P1M1KPH.DTL

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aw, but they lost their new 'home'.

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_19378515

as i've said more than once, protest all you wish. but why they have to live in squalid surroundings on private property, i don't know. how does tearing down fencing and no trespassing signs and pitching tents on property they have no right to squat on further their argument?

Riot · #6 11-20-2011, 07:40 PM

They were allegedly supposed to be protesting something about homeless people, but you can't break into and squat on private property.

See the black hoodies, covering their faces? Those are not Occupy. Those are black bloc supporters. See the kids in the background? Followers from Occupy who don't want peaceful protest. They have a split in Oakland, as they've been on the receiving end of so much violence there.

Danzig · #7 11-20-2011, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot

They were allegedly supposed to be protesting something about homeless people, but you can't break into and squat on private property.

See the black hoodies, covering their faces? Those are not Occupy. Those are black bloc supporters. See the kids in the background? Followers from Occupy who don't want peaceful protest. They have a split in Oakland, as they've been on the receiving end of so much violence there.

gimme a break. anyone who does anything overt isn't actually an occupy protester, even if they are part of the movement? i'd call that cherry picking.

the article identifies them as occupy protesters.

Rebellious Occupy Oakland demonstrators cut through a chain-link fence and tore down no-trespassing signs in a vacant Uptown neighborhood lot Saturday night, setting up a new encampment in bold defiance of Mayor Jean Quan.

The dirt-covered lot at 19th Street and Telegraph Avenue, next to the refurbished Fox Theater, is five blocks north of Frank Ogawa Plaza, where Occupy Oakland demonstrators were ousted in a predawn police raid Monday.

hundreds of demonstrators, who had just concluded a march through downtown and the Lake Merritt neighborhoods, got past officers with ease and without confrontation. During the march, they shouted criticism at banks, one of the objects of their larger protest against economic injustice.

They cut through the fencing with wire cutters and tore it down completely before quickly setting up a dozen tents on the property, which is owned by the Oakland Redevelopment Agency.

The evicted demonstrators announced two days later that they planned to resettle in the Uptown area, an emerging neighborhood of trendy lofts, restaurants and bars, after business leaders urged city officials to shut down the camp at Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall.

Occupy Oakland representatives also were elusive in announcing their plans. But one said the lot probably wouldn't be occupied more than a night or two.

that sounds like occupy to me.