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**Occupy** lop guest User ID: 14978 10-01-2011 05:19 AM

Saturday, October 1: Occupy Wall Street ... and Albuquerque and Santa Fe

http://rootswire.org/content/saturday-oc...nta-fe-and

**Occupy** lop guest User ID: 14978 10-01-2011 05:22 AM

I just got back from the big Occupy Wall Street protest in front of NYPD headquarters. I’ve gone to lots of protests in New York in my day, and I admit that a lot of them feel like obligations. You go out of duty, because that union came out to support yours before, or your friend guilt-tripped you. But you know something exciting is happening when you want to be there. When there is the feeling that history is being made and you just want to see what happens.

So I’ve been downtown a couple of times and here are my impressions. They are getting a lot of flack for being disorganized. Sure. Compared to most political rallies, these things are pretty disorganized. Its not always clear what’s going on, or whose speaking and why. Part of that is embedded in the particular brand of anarchist-inspired activism that a lot of the demonstrators come out of, one that shuns hierarchies and institutions. Radical direct democracy and prefigurative politics isn’t always efficient, but efficiency also isn’t always the highest virtue.

The second reason, I suspect, that Occupy Wall Street seems disorganized is that we’re so used to highly managed political campaigns. Think about the Obama campaign. A small group of advisers and the candidate come up with rhetoric and a set of slogans. They use them at every opportunity: in speeches, in interviews, etc…. At rallies, everyone holds signs which says those slogans on them (hope, change, etc…), while behind the candidate those slogans are emblazoned on big posters. It’s all very professional and “on-message.” Occupy Wall Street, obviously, rejects this managed, bureaucratic style of politics, and I think its actually quite jarring when we hear someone interviewed who hasn’t been couched by a PR professional and who deliberately rejects the idea that everyone should be on the same message. We all laugh when Jon Stewart shows Republicans robotically repeating talking points, but we’re not quite ready to see unmediated and unstaged political action.

Like most protests, there is a wide-spectrum of participants. From the “I wouldn’t expect them at a rally,” to the “little old radical lady” to the “perfectly normal” to the “hippie freak-outs,” and beyond. Some kids obviously want trouble, but that is a tiny-tiny minority. The vast majority are non-violent, almost to a fault. Anyways… I’m reminded of the essay by abolitionist Thomas W. Higginson on the type of people who used to come to anti-slavery events.

more:
http://phdoctopus.com/2011/09/30/thought...ll-street/

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 14978 10-01-2011 05:26 AM

Occupy Wall Street spreads across America

http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628857

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 14978 10-01-2011 05:27 AM

dolphin Wrote:

Occupy Wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dSiOdDasNo

Noone would know what it is we now know about what Wallstreet was up to and what is going on if it were not for this guy.

The true Father of the Tea Party before the schills took it over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df6EdumtmXc

**Occupy** lop guest User ID: 14978 10-01-2011 02:16 PM

Solidarity exemplifies itself on Wall Street today with unification of the 99% marching to NYPD head quarters. All creeds, races, colors, sexes, parties, and faiths marched together today to demonstrate their Constitutional right to express their opinions and to make themselves known to the powers that be. They are the 99%

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ht08vBra...ideo_title

**Occupy** lop guest User ID: 14978 10-01-2011 02:19 PM

Update: Reports are the protestors have now shut down NYPD headquarters.

Yesterday 4 unions announced their support for the Occupy Wall Street protests, including the massive 200,000 TWU, The Teamster’s Union, SEIU and the IWW. The a collective group with one million members announced their support. Even media mogul Russell Simmons told MSNBC he would be joining the movement vowing to bring hundreds of thousands of people.

Now, NYPD police scanners are estimating a crowd up to 5,000 are occupying liberty square in a scene that is now starting to look more like Egypt’s Tahrir square.

In fact the protests have become so large that Fox News has set up a live stream covering the protests. Here are some screen shots from their camera.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09...ves-73461/
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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 49157 10-01-2011 07:09 PM

Boston – Police have arrested two dozen protesters for trespassing during a demonstration against Bank of America's foreclosure practices at the banking giant's offices in downtown Boston.

The Boston Herald reports that the event was an act of civil disobedience that the organizers intended to send the message that the lender's practices were unfair.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/01/doz...latestnews

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 49157 10-01-2011 07:37 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9Vyt1ZB...ideo_title

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 49157 10-01-2011 07:40 PM

Bank Whistle Blower speaks out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvPe2lBVm...re=related

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 49157 10-01-2011 08:41 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Bank Whistle Blower speaks out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvPe2lBVm...re=related

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 48675 10-01-2011 08:58 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

“Mayor Bloomberg doesn't have a clue. He's a billionaire. Doesn't have a clue,” said one protester.

Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Blaming "The Wrong People"

http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/po...ng-people-

Bloomberg is a Blooming Idiot!

**Goldilocks** · **RE: Where are you? Occupy Wall Street - September 30, 2011**

The Lion is about to roar.

God Bless those who have put themselves into harms way.

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 14978 10-02-2011 01:11 AM

I am going to keep posting on this thread that I started. Heartflowers

Wall Street protest shuts half of Brooklyn Bridge

http://www.therecord.com/news/world/arti...lyn-bridge

**Occupy** lop guest User ID: 14978 10-02-2011 01:14 AM

Brooklyn Bridge Occupied

https://occupywallst.org/article/brookly...-occupied/

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 14978 10-02-2011 01:14 AM

Goldilocks Wrote:

The Lion is about to roar.

God Bless those who have put themselves into harms way.