#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

[eyeno]

Alyona: Bloomberg Defense Of Wall Street Banks Misguided And Elitist #OccupyWallStreet

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/1 ... eet-73871/



Bloomberg Contemplates Shutting Down #OccupyWallStreet – “We Need To Defend Wall Street”



New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized the Occupy Wall Street protests today, suggesting their days be numbered and said the Wall Street banks deserve our support.

In a bout of Orwellian doublespeak, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg used his radio address today to hand out criticism against the Occupy Wall Street movement, calling the policies of the protestors misguided.

In an effort to sway the opinion of the public, he represented the movement as one that is protesting against the low income earners on Wall Street making between $40,000 – $50,000 a year.

Everyone knows these protests aren’t against the mailman or the IT guy working at Goldman Sachs. Their against the super elite who use the bottomless of money they have plundered and pillaged from the mailman and the IT guy to buy off our politicians and destroy the global economy.

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He went on to say that while people have a right to protest, people on the street also have the right to get to work unmolested. Clearly, a baseless claim but none the less the kind of rhetoric that politicians will use to rouse anti-protestor sentiment.

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Bloomberg:

“The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That’s the bottom line. Those are the people that work on Wall Street or on the finance sector. [...] People in this day and age need support for their employers. We need the banks, if the banks don’t go out and make loans we will not come out of our economy problems, we will not have jobs. And so anything we can do to responsibly help the banks do that, encourage them to do that is waht we need. I think we spend much too much time worrying about how we got into problems as to how we go forward. [...] Also we always tend to blame the wrong people. We blame the banks. They were part of it, but so were Freddie Mac and Frannie Mae and Congress. [....] People have the right to protest, but we also have to make sure that people who don’t want to protest can go down the streets unmolested,”


Last night the Aloyna put out the same message to her massive audience calling out Bloomberg for his disinformation. In her Tool Time segment, she awards Bloomberg the Tool Time award for his misguided and elitist comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... CtElUv63ww



Time for tonight’s tool time award and it goes to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. When the Occupy Wall Street protests began in his city back on September 17th, he said the protesters were welcome as long as they were respectful to other New Yorkers. But it appears that after two weeks of protests on Wall St. Mayor Bloomberg is changing his tune. And that’s why he’s tonight’s tool time winner.

[2012 Countdown]

LIVE-
Pigs being pigs...

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

Protestors marching to BBridge, cops took a few down.

"Paddy wagons on scene, -WALL OF COPS".

**ITS GOING DOWN**

Again, it is going down!

Crowd being surrounded w/orange net, they start chanting 'no sleep till Brooklyn' (BBoys)

Cops are going to KETTLE!!

"LET HER GO!!!"

[2012 Countdown]

Thousands of protesters brought traffic to a halt on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon, as they took their gripes with government away from the commercial heart to one of the city’s main arteries. Police began arresting people as the situation grew from a small gathering to a car-stopping mass. Follow the action live below with a video livestream and our list of sources covering the marches.


http://storyful.com/stories/1000008876

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October 1, 2011, 4:29 PM
Video: Police Arresting Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge

By COLIN MOYNIHAN

The video below is being broadcast on the Livestream channel of a group called “globalrevolution.” The Times does not endorse the captions that appear on the screen.

Updated, 5:07 p.m. | After allowing marchers from the Occupy Wall Street protests to claim the Brooklyn-bound car lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge and get partway across, the police cut the marchers off and plunged into the crowd and began making arrests around 4:15 p.m. Saturday.

At 4:35, perhaps 500 people were caught on the bridge between orange nets, about a third of the way across to Brooklyn. The police let some of them walk back to Manhattan. Others on the roadway clambered dangerously up the structure of the bridge to get to the wooden pedestrian walkway, which is about 15 feet above the road.

Shortly before 5 p.m., the police cleared all pedestrians off the footpath.

White buses that appeared to be from the city Department of Correction drove up onto the roadway, toward where the protesters were being held.

Natasha Lennard contributed reporting.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/ ... yn-bridge/

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raypride Ray Pride
RT @RDevro: Standing at Manhattan base of BK bridge. NYT contributor Natasha Lennard is being arrested. #occupywallstreet
26 minutes ago

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23occupywallstreet

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danielhewitt Daniel Hewitt
RT @NYCSep17: #occupywallstreet i'm about to be arrested. All love to you all thanks for watching over us on livestream.com/globalrevolution
2 minutes ago

fashionpirate Arabelle Sicardi
We cannot go back across the bridge, cornering us in the park #occupywallstreet
2 minutes ago

ShannonPoe Shannon Poe
Eye C U RT @jeans_shopping: We are being peaceful but being arrested in mass. #openyoureyes #occupywallstreet yfrog.com/nvqwuyj
4 minutes ago

democracynow Democracy Now!
RT @RDevro: Source on bridge says, "a couple hundred," still waiting to be loaded into NYPD vans. #occupywallstreet
4 minutes ago

[Nordic]

[2012 Countdown]

Update 6:00 p.m.: According to our reporter on the scene, Christopher Robbins, NYPD are using MTA buses to load more arrested protesters, in addition to at least three paddy wagons. There are "easily 100 NYPD officers" at the mouth of the Brooklyn Bridge (as you can see above). Even though the bridge is blocked off at the entrance, protestors are threatening to march on it again anyway—as you can see in a picture from Brian Stelter below:




Breaking: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Blocking Off Brooklyn Bridge, Police Arresting Scores


http://gothamist.com/2011/10/01/breakin ... rotest.php

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Story and lots of photos.

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democracynow Democracy Now!
RT @RDevro: @nytimes reporter cuffed and waiting in van believes she is headed to central booking #occupywallstreet
1 minute ago

[Laodicean]

[JackRiddler]

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Went there yesterday morning over the Bklyn Bridge. Offered half a pack of cigarettes to the smokers of what's sort of the command center, rasta-hair kids with a bunch of computers around a table. The morning yoga was going, most people were still in their bags. The weather had been nice, forecast was rain. Free breakfast. Thanked everyone in sight. Said I had to go to work. Girl who got some of the cigs says to me, heartbreakingly earnest: "You don't have to! Your job is not your identity." It's okay, I told her, my job is not my identity. Occurred to me I don't care what anyone there thinks, their oft-demanded demands don't matter, long as the occupation is kept up, because the occupation IS the demand: DOWN WITH THE KING. We have a dual divine right sovereign in this country, Finance and War, and the bigger of the two heads has its symbolic and practical headquarters in Lowest Manhattan. Is that so hard to understand, o, corporate media heads? Today, been at home, exhausted from work. Was hoping to make the GA. Procrastinations, delays, then rain. Lazy man. Sorry. I think of them in last night's deluge of a few hours, they are turning into heroes. Anyway, come here and see the above. Wow. Big. Gotta get out there tomorrow. Warning, all: They will not let this embark on a third week at that spot. The critical mass it's reached is that the whole world knows it happened and it WILL metastasize, and it WILL return. But by Monday morning they're going to declare it an obstruction to industry and Jobs and all that crap and bring in the heavy gear and occupy Zucotti Park. Brooklyn was the right idea. The next logical phase should be to have some indoor gatherings (so people can finally hear each other speak) but even more so to march through EVERY neighborhood they can go to: Union Sq, Times Sq, uptown, Bklyn, Astoria, Flushing, Bronx. Maybe Yankee Stadium, if they're still in the playoffs in a week. (Am I going to tactically root for those bastards?) It's frustrating for this to be happening while I'm in the middle of a very rare real-ish job. Never mind. That's ego. Now is always the time. It's thrilling, good, all power to them. I am so grateful to them.

Nicholas

[Laodicean]

Occupy Wall St.
‎12 year old girl arrested on the brooklyn bridge please spread the word..

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt

[Project Willow]

Thanks for the report Nicholas!

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I don't believe in exploiting kids like this, but goddamn, this is SO funny!

[bks]

Michael Bloomberg said:

“The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That’s the bottom line. Those are the people that work on Wall Street or on the finance sector. [...]

No one should ever let this fucking douchebag forget he said that. In the meantime, someone should feed him his shoes.

Nick wrote:
(Am I going to tactically root for those bastards?)

Yes you are! Yes I am! I hope "my" Phillies win every game, and the "hated""hated"Yankees win every game, and everyone [including me] can't wait for the juggernauts to face one another . . .and they have to cancel the friggin' World Series!

Yes we can!

I'm coming up to drop supplies to anyone who will take them Tuesday afternoon. Love to meet any of you there! My heart swells. Wishing for Spring this autumn.

[Free]

I was on the Brooklyn Bridge. The march from Liberty Park was huge, moving from City Hall onto the bridge, too many to fit on the pedestrian side of the bridge walkway where it was legal to cross, and no protester organizers or police telling marchers not to cross on the road, so the march flowed into both the walkway and the road (illegal due to obstruction of traffic).

Luckily, I was on the walkway, which is elevated. From there we saw everything. The police started calling on their radios, and reinforcements came from the other side to block off the marchers, then started arresting them. The arrests that I saw were peaceful and non violent with hundreds of people overhead filming, snapping photos and chanting "Let them go" some yelling, 'dirty pigs' others 'we still love you', etc. Just heard on the radio that the Brooklyn Bridge is open again, it was shut down outbound until 8:30 or so.

If any of my pictures are any good I'll post them later. I went to Slutwalk too. All in all a glorius, satisfying day... Hallelujah!

[Plutonia]

It was just announced at the General Assembly that 15 Marines are coming tomorrow to provide protection from police violence.

[Luther Blissett]

Bruce Dazzling and I were both on the Brooklyn Bridge as well, and I turned back at approximately 4:00 to return uptown to catch my bus back to Philly. We were towards the front and I am definitely worried that he has been arrested. He even made the prescient comment, when we learned that instead of marching on Union Square as was planned and announced, we were routing onto the Brooklyn Bridge, "the Brooklyn Bridge...isn't that where the cops would want us to be?" or something to that effect. It was still very optimistic and positive at the point which I turned back to head home and said my goodbyes to Bruce. It seemed like the cops had opened up that portion of the roadway under the walkway in order to "help" us; they had been very peaceful up until that point. I can't believe that there was a "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" situation waiting up there for them on top of the bridge.

As for that 12-year-old in the animal cap, I cannot, CANNOT believe they arrested her. When I first saw her at Liberty Park, my first thought was, "well, she's not going to get arrested." She seemed very serious and focused on her photojournalism. I want to hunt down the cop responsible and make sure he never works again.

Thoughts going out to Bruce Dazzling. I feel incredibly guilty that I turned back when I did.

[Luther Blissett]

Another quick word about numbers - while we were up towards the front at the beginning, when the cops opened up the roadway, we stood watching and taking pictures for awhile watching as hundreds, possibly thousands of protestors walked by headed up the bridge. When I got to the bottom of the bridge, I couldn't see the end of the march back around the bend onto Broadway...there were a LOT of people marching. It's tough to guess a number but if you held a gun to my head I'd say 5000+.

[Nordic]

The whole idea IS to obstruct, to block access, to throw bodies on the gears and shut down the machine. If the cops don't like that, then fuck them. They can join in, or they can fight it and lose.

Fuck the police.

The crowds need to learn how kettling works so they can avoid it in the future.