#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

[Jeff]

Look out: "Clean Up" dead ahead.

Protesters Won't Be Able to Bring Sleeping Bags Back Into Park After Cleanup

New list of rules has scores of protesters concerned; Occupy Wall Street vows to fight back

By Shimon Prokupecz and Jonathan Vigliotti | Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 | Updated 2:24 PM EDT

Occupy Wall Street protesters will not be allowed to bring their sleeping bags back into Zuccotti Park after they leave for a city-ordered cleanup of the premises Friday morning, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said Thursday.

Mayor Bloomberg appeared at the park Wednesday evening to inform protesters that cleaning crews will be dispatched there at the end of the week.

Kelly said cleanup crews will enter the park at about 7 a.m. Friday and the clean-up process will take place in four-hour intervals.

He also said protesters will not be able to bring their sleeping bags, among other items, into the park once they are allowed back in, which may hamper their ability to weather the elements amid an anticipated cold front expected to roll through the area.

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According to @OccupyWallStNYC, the Twitter handle for the local movement that tweeted a copy of the purported rules, the new requirements forbid:

•Camping and/or the erection of tents or other structures;
•Lying down on the ground or lying down on benches, sitting areas or walkways, which unreasonably interferes with the use of benches, sitting areas or walkways by others;
•The placement of tarps or sleeping bags or other covering on the property;
•Storage or placement of personal property on the ground, benches, sitting areas or walkways which unreasonably interferes with the use of such areas by others;
•The use of bicycles, skateboards and roller blades; and
•Removal of objects from trash receptacles.

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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Zu ... 96173.html

[JackRiddler]

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/ ... rategy/?hp

October 13, 2011, 2:30 pm
Facing Eviction, Protesters Talk Pre-emptive Cleanup Strategy

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS** and ANDY NEWMAN

Ozier Muhammad/The New York TimesTwo protesters, Henry Perkins, left, and Fred Pantozzi, cleaning up at Zuccotti Park on Thursday.

There was much talk among the protesters at Zuccotti Park on Thursday about cleaning up after themselves to stave off eviction. But by early afternoon, only a handful had translated words into action and begun the daunting task of ridding the park of the accumulated detritus of a four-week occupation.

At meetings in the corner of the park, protesters discussed strategy in light of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s announcement Wednesday night that the Occupy Wall Street protesters would have to leave temporarily starting at 7 a.m. Friday so that the park could be cleaned. Many have called the evacuation order a pretext for shutting down the protests permanently.

Some people advocated nonviolent resistance. But the wider consensus seemed to be that if the protesters cleaned up their own sleeping bags and tarps and pieces of cardboard and made the park better than new, the city and the park’s owners, Brookfield Properties, might relent and let them stay.

“Pick up a broom, pick up the trash, encourage people to wake at a decent hour,” one woman called to the crowd. “Show Mayor Bloomberg that he is dead wrong.”
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg received a decidedly mixed reception when he went to Zuccotti Park Wednesday night to announce the cleanup.

An older woman who identified herself as a landscape artist even suggested that they take up a collection to replace trampled chrysanthemums. The crowd heard her out, but it was suggested that she needed to take this proposal to the finance committee.

Elsewhere in the park, Fred Pantozzi, a protester, was filling plastic bags with trash.

“Every action that you see here is autonomous,” Mr. Pantozzi said.

Beside him, Henry Perkins, 21, a student who was gathering up unclaimed sleeping bags, added, “autonomous enough for other people not to be doing it.”

Mr. Perkins, a student at the University of Alabama who has been protesting and sleeping in the park for five days, said that people’s bagged possessions would be taken to the “comfort center” where they could be retrieved.

Around 2:30, OccupyWallStNYC posted to Twitter that someone had shown up with a power washer, but that the site lacked a water supply.

Some guy just showed up with a power washer. Only issue: water supply? Ideas. Internet? #wallstcleanup #occupywallstreetThu Oct 13 18:31:02 via Twitter for iPad#OCCUPYWALLSTREET
OccupyWallStNYC


Many in the crowd were also concerned about a printed announcement distributed Thursday morning. It began, “To whom it my concern,” and described plans to clean the park and to prohibit all but lawful use — meaning no sleeping bags, tarps or sleeping on benches if that was bothering someone else.

The no-sleeping-bags rule and others like it were posted on a sign nearly three weeks ago, but they have not been enforced. In light of the imminent eviction, however, some protesters worried that the police would try to stop protesters from trying to bring the forbidden items back into the park after the cleaning.
Ozier Muhammad/The New York TimesA protester cleaning up at the site.

In a letter (see below) sent Tuesday to Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly requesting that the police remove the protesters, Brookfield’s chief executive, Richard B. Clark, noted that the park is “intended to be a relaxing, tree-filled oasis in the midst of the hustle and bustle of Lower Manhattan.”

He added that the activity of the protesters “violates the law, violates the rules of the park, deprives the community of its rights of quiet enjoyment of the park and creates health and public safety issues that need to be addressed immediately.”

Mayor Bloomberg cited the letter when he announced the park closing Wednesday night.

After describing the havoc wrought upon the park by the protesters, Mr. Clark wrote, “In light of this and the ongoing trespassing of the protesters, we are again requesting the assistance of the New York City Police Department to help clear the park” so that cleaning, maintenance and repairs could be performed.


[SEE LINK FOR IMAGE OF DOCUMENT FROM CLARK]

Colin Moynihan and Cara Buckley contributed reporting.
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** By the way, Hartocollis in Greek sounds like, "paper sticker," as in a person who sticks paper to a wall. Don't think I'll ever get over noticing when someone is Greek! Nice job getting yourself into the Times, Anemona, now organize a strike!

Gah, gotta stop slacking off at work here. See ya.

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[undead]

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Uh-oh.

[tazmic]

Richard Dolan posted this on FB half an hour ago: "Okay, I just saw something that has truly creeped me out. Can anyone comment on this? What is this all about?"

Occupy Atlanta hynotizes zombie collectivists with cult-like trance

Here's a great example of the distorted collectivist mindset of Marxists and socialists who want to toss out individuality and liberty in exchange for centrally-commanded doublespeak. What will you do when these zombies come after your individual liberties in the name of "the common good?"

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8B371A69A ... 002647DBBC

Dolan also linked to a Prison Planet piece about "collectivist zombie training" as "classic mind control" to "eliminate the individual mind."

I replied that, er, no; it's not zombie hypnosis, actually. It's a human microphone, because electronic amplification is not permitted. I think Dolan gets it now, but apparently many still don't.

But, the organizer has an electronic megaphone. You can see it in his hand.

Seriously. You don't find the video absurd? The organizer clearly organised the discussion, even out 'mic checking' someone towards the end, which is easy to do when you're amplified... and the primary 'blocker' in any non favored context would be seen as an obvious plant by many on this forum with his well prepared patronizing speech. And why did the congressman have to be 'invited' to speak to the 'group' anyway? Why couldn't he just 'mic check!' like anyone else (that he is not more important than)? What was the group? And failure to find consensus between yes or no = no... is just a little bit pants, and why couldn't the people who wanted to listen to the guy just go off and listen to him?

No one is any more important than anyone else? Sheesh, what kind of bullshit anarchist 'consensus democracy' organisation was that we just witnessed?

[Wombaticus Rex]

Sheesh, what kind of bullshit anarchist 'consensus democracy' organisation was that we just witnessed?

See, that's a valid point, though.

"Zombie collectivists in a cult-like trance" is...not so much a valid point.

What will you do when these zombies come after your individual liberties in the name of "the common good?"

Well, geez....what does that language imply?



A: You shoot them in the head with guns, just like in the movies and on the TV.

[Laodicean]

John Robb @ Global Guerrillas:

Thursday, 13 October 2011

BLOOMBERG VS. OCCUPY

Mayor Bloomberg is moving to shut down Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Square tomorrow at 7 AM.

The ruse he is using: the need to clean the "park." He has promised that Liberty Square will be reopened after the cleaning but nobody will be allowed to set up anything in park, nor will sleeping bags be allowed (click the sheet to the left for larger version).

This is going to get interesting. Will be working up some ideas for how this could play out. Let's start off with an assumption. This is Bloomberg vs. Occupy. One mind vs. many minds. The goal is to coerce him into changing his mind. Dissuade him. Get inside his OODA loop.

* Go straight for him. Maximize the eviction's taint on Bloomberg's personal brand. Personalize the protest/eviction by attaching the blame to him personally. Pierce his shield of bureaucratic impersonality. Brand the eviction with the name: Bloomberg. This is/will be a global stage, use it.

* Confuse him. Lots and lots of Flash Mobs. Shut down bridges and major streets. Overwhelm with volume/speed. Non-violent disruption. As soon as police arrive in force, disperse and reassemble at new location. Bikes + Kids. Disrupt, disrupt, disrupt. More flashmobs = more disruption. As long as the square is under attack, keep the city tied in knots. NOTE: If they lock down the area, flashmobs are the best way to participate (and get some exercise).

* Connect with more people than him. Best way to do this: Eyes in the sky. Get a camera/cameras above Liberty Square. Stream the feed. The better the quality the more impact it will have. It will play across the world. Think about how important AJs video feed over Tahrir was when things got hot. Better yet, get AJ [Al Jazeera] to cover it and stream it.

If you have additional ideas, add them below. Good training in tactical thinking.

Hoisted from the comments:

The flashmob tactic was tried here in Panama couple of years ago by the SUNTRACS construction workers union, and with very small groups pre-planted all over the city they drove the police absolutely crazy. Police would show up at location A, mob would disperse immediately, two text messages and now TWO flashmobs would block streets at different locations. They never followed up with it (preferring massive marches to display force) but it worked very well and with much less people than #ows has available. [courtesy: Okke]

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/glo ... ccupy.html

[Laodicean]

[MacCruiskeen]

With Bloomberg now already showing his hand, the issue of "violence"* is going to have to be faced sooner rather than later, because his hand's in an iron glove and he is nothing if not the embodiment of the enemy.

If one thing has been blindingly obviously from the start, it's that the 1% are not going to go down without a fight, by which I don't mean a merely legal battle. When handcuffs and truncheons are applied & fists start flying & windows get broken & noses get bloodied & police officers actually experience physical resistance, then we'll see who's really serious about supporting OWS and which of the prominent current 'liberal' supporters -- from Michael Moore to Susan Sarandon to etc. -- are merely sanctimonious or merely opportunistic. Class warfare cannot remain polite forever.

*Violence is such a weasel word. It was used indiscriminately by hacks from the Guardian and the Independent and the BBC when students smashed the windows of the Tory Party HQ in London earlier this year, and even more indiscriminately (indeed hysterically) when the so-called underclass ran riot in chain stores in London and elsewhere a few months later. The utterly obscene structural violence of what they were resisting suddenly became invisible in the media - including and especially the 'liberal' media. It would be good if people in the States were fully aware of this and fully prepared to respond to it unapologetically and articulately when it happens, as it inevitably will.

[Laodicean]

They're outnumbered. Unless they blow us all to hell.

[Laodicean]

Stop a Canadian company from evicting Occupy Wall Street

Dear Friends,

At 7AM tomorrow morning, a Canadian company, Brookfield Asset Management, is threatening to evict Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park in New York. We need your help right now to stop Brookfield from shutting down the beating heart of a new global movement.

Zuccoti Park is the birthplace of the Occupy movement that has swept across the United States, and starts in Canada this Saturday. This new movement is spreading like wildfire because it powerfully speaks for economic justice and the need to reclaim our democracies.

Brookfield owns Zuccotti Park and wants to evict the participants to “clean” the park. Worse, they are threatening to impose new rules that will prevent the participants from bringing sleeping bags or tarps back into the park, effectively ending the occupation.

The New York police have said that they can only evict the participants if Brookfield labels them trespassers. Mayor Bloomberg has promised to order the police to clear the park once that happens. We need a massive Canadian outcry right now. Send a message directly to Brookfield’s executives demanding that they respect democratic rights.

Tria Donaldson, Leadnow’s communication coordinator, will be in Zuccotti Park tomorrow morning at 6AM to join a non-violent defense against the eviction -- and making sure that the Canadian press covering the story know just how many Canadians have spoken up to oppose Brookfield’s action.

“Cleaning” has been used over and over as a pretense to shut down peaceful occupations -- already this year it was used to evict protesters from the Wisconsin state house, and New York Mayor Bloomberg himself used it to shut down a peaceable demonstration against budget cuts. We can’t let it happen again.

Brookfield and Mayor Bloomberg are expecting an outcry in the US, they are not expecting a massive public outcry in Canada. This is a Canadian company. As Canadians, we have a special responsibility to tell Brookfield’s leadership not to dare interfere with the democratic rights of our southern neighbours.

Let’s show our American friends that we’ve got their back. Occupy Wall Street is about challenging the power of the richest 1%, and defending the economic and democratic rights of everyone else. Don’t let our 1% bail out America’s 1%. We need you to send a message to Brookfield’s executives here in Canada, right now.

With hope and respect,
Jamie, Tria, Matthew, Ryan, Emma and Adam on behalf of the Leadnow.ca team

http://www.leadnow.ca/stop-occupy-wall-street-eviction

[MacCruiskeen]

Brookfield owns Zuccotti Park

ffs, that epitomises the entire struggle.

Reclaim the commons!

[jam.fuse]

http://occupywallst.org/article/emergen ... osure-occ/

EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: Keep Bloomberg and Kelly From Evicting #OWS
Posted Oct. 13, 2011, 2:14 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

EMERGENCY #OWS EVICTION DEFENSE:
Prevent the forcible closure of Occupy Wall Street

Tell Bloomberg: Don't Foreclose the Occupation.
NEED MASS TURN-OUT, SHOW UP NO LATER THAN 6 A.M.

This is an emergency situation. Please take a minute to read this, and please take action and spread the word far and wide.

Occupy Wall Street is gaining momentum, with occupation actions now happening in cities across the world.

But last night Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD notified Occupy Wall Street participants about plans to “clean the park”—the site of the Wall Street protests—tomorrow starting at 7am. "Cleaning" was used as a pretext to shut down “Bloombergville” a few months back, and to shut down peaceful occupations elsewhere.

Bloomberg says that the park will be open for public usage following the cleaning, but with a notable caveat: Occupy Wall Street participants must follow the “rules”.
NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has said that they will move in to clear us and we will not be allowed to take sleeping bags, tarps, personal items or gear back into the park.
This is it—this is their attempt to shut down #OWS for good.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION

1) Call 311 (or +1 (212) NEW-YORK if you're out of town) and tell Bloomberg to support our right to assemble and to not interfere with #OWS.
2) Come to #OWS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT to defend the occupation from eviction

For those of you who plan to help us hold our ground—which we hope will be all of you—make sure you understand the possible consequences. Be prepared to not get much sleep. Be prepared for possible arrest. Make sure your items are together and ready to go (or already out of the park.) We are pursuing all possible strategies; this is a message of solidarity.

Click here to learn nonviolent tactics for holding ground.

Occupy Wall Street is committed to keeping the park clean and safe—we even have a Sanitation Working Group whose purpose this is. We are organizing major cleaning operations today and will do so regularly.

If Bloomberg truly cares about sanitation here he should support the installation of portopans and dumpsters. #OWS allies have been working to secure these things to support our efforts.

We know where the real dirt is: on Wall Street. Billionaire Bloomberg is beholden to bankers.

We won't allow Bloomberg and the NYPD to foreclose our occupation. This is an occupation, not a permitted picnic.

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Press Releases
Nurses to Set Up First Aid Station for Occupy Wall Street
For Immediate Release
October 13, 2011

Call on Mayor Bloomberg to Respect Free Speech Rights
Invite Regional RNs to Join and Defend Medical Aid Effort

New York – The nation’s largest organization of nurses today announced it will set up a first aid station Friday to provide basic medical assistance to participants in the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, an effort that will be expanded to other cities where protests continue.

National Nurses United (NNU) will establish a first aid station in New York’s Zuccotti Park Friday at noon, October 14, to provide basic medical assistance to protesters. NNU is also asking RNs from around the New York region to join the humanitarian aid effort.

The first aid program is especially critical in light of today’s announcement that Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the NYPD plan to “clean the park” — the site of the Wall Street protests — starting at 7 a.m. an effort sharply criticized by NNU.

“The mayor and the city should respect the rights of the protesters to free speech and assembly and not seek to silence their voice or their dissent over the disruption and devastation Wall Street has caused to communities across America,” said Jill Furillo, RN.

Furillo said RNs will be on hand “to meet the growing medical needs of the protesters, support their rights, and defend our program to ensure they have access to medical aid.”

The first aid program, a response to calls for help from participants in the occupy actions, is being coordinated in conjunction with Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), the first direct-care RN rapid response network and a project of NNU.

RNRN has responded to care for several years, sending hundreds of RN volunteers to assist on the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in post-earthquake Haiti, and in tsunami recovery efforts in South Asia.

In the current effort, volunteer nurses will staff first aid tents at occupy protests in various locations. NNU has announced support for the Occupy Wall Street protests. Those encamped in cities and small towns across America include students, the young, and many of the most vulnerable in our society, including the chronically unemployed, homeless, and uninsured

[seemslikeadream]

I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight ...any suggestions on live coverage?