i am really dissapointed that no one in the "truth movement " is promoting this event.... i had attempted to contact folks to see if they d put a banner on their web site or mention it on a broadcast...... no one answered.........
i came to the realization that none of these"truthe movement" folks are willing to put their money where their mouth is.... oh well i guess they just prefer to cry about it.......
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i am really dissapointed that no one in the "truth movement " is promoting this event.... i had attempted to contact folks to see if they d put a banner on their web site or mention it on a broadcast...... no one answered.........
i came to the realization that none of these"truthe movement" folks are willing to put their money where their mouth is.... oh well i guess they just prefer to cry about it.......
here ya go, zuni ... found on rmn, info beginning to hit the internet ....
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By John Schoen A protest called “Occupy Wall Street” entered its fourth day Tuesday as a loosely organized group of activists converged on lower Manhattan and clashed with police.
The protest began Saturday when several thousand people gathered in front of the New York Stock Exchange holding signs saying "We must end corporate tyranny and corruption" and "Debt is slavery." By Tuesday, the crowd had dwindled to several hundred.
New York police have made a handful of arrests -- two on Saturday when protesters tried to enter a Bank of America office and six more on Monday. At least four on Monday were held for wearing masks, which is illegal for groups of two or more, police said. A video posted on YouTube Monday appears to show police arresting at least one protester.
"The elite corporate power have hijacked democracy," Alexander Penley, an international lawyer from New York, told Reuters. "The economic depression we are experiencing today has something to do with how Wall Street is run."
Demonstrators have displayed other signs including "Commodity inflation causes starvation" and "I can't afford a lobbyist."
The idea for the protest apparently originated with a Vancouver-based magazine called Adbusters, which describes itself as “a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.”
In a July 13 blog post, the magazine called on readers to emulate the "Arab Spring" uprisings that began in Tahrir Square in Cairo in January. The magazine called on readers to “flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months.” The purpose of the protest, according to the post, is to end “the influence money has over our representatives in Washington.”
“It's time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY,” the post proclaimed. “We're doomed without it.”
On Tuesday, police maintained a heavy presence in the Financial District, partitioning off areas of the sidewalk and slowing pedestrian traffic in a neighborhood that typically attracts heavy tourist traffic.
First Posted: 9/29/11 12:39 PM ET Updated: 9/29/11 04:56 PM ET
New York City labor unions are preparing to back the unwieldy grassroots band occupying a park in Lower Manhattan, in a move that could mark a significant shift in the tenor of the anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street protests and send thousands more people into the streets.
The Transit Workers Union Local 100's executive committee, which oversees the organization of subway and bus workers, voted unanimously Wednesday night to support the protesters. The union claims 38,000 members. A union-backed organizing coalition, which orchestrated a large May 12 march on Wall Street before the protests, is planning a rally on Oct. 5 in explicit support. And SEIU 32BJ, which represents doormen, security guards and maintenance workers, is using its Oct. 12 rally to express solidarity with the Zuccotti Park protesters.
"The call went out over a month ago, before actually the occupancy of Wall Street took place," said 32BJ spokesman Kwame Patterson. Now, he added, "we're all coming under one cause, even though we have our different initiatives."
The protests found their genesis not in any of the established New York social action groups but with a call put out by a Canadian magazine. While other major unions beyond the TWU have yet to officially endorse Occupy Wall Street, more backing could come as early as this week. Both the New York Metro Area Postal Union and SEIU 1199 are considering such moves.
Jackie DiSalvo, an Occupy Wall Street organizer, says a series of public actions aimed at expressing support for labor -- from disrupting a Sotheby's auction on Sept. 22 to attending a postal workers' rally on Tuesday -- have convinced unions that the two groups' struggles are one.
"Labor is up against the wall and they're begging us to help them," said DiSalvo, a retired professor at Baruch College in her late 60s who has emerged as a driving force in the effort to link up labor and the protests. DiSalvo is herself a member of the Professional Staff Congress, which represents teachers at the City University of New York.
Recent anti-labor actions like Scott Walker's in Wisconsin "really shocked the unions and moved them into militant action," DiSalvo said, and the inflammatory video of a NYPD deputy inspector pepper-spraying several protesters on Saturday also generated union sympathy.
"There's a lot of good feeling. They've made a lot of friends," said Chuck Zlatkin of the postal union.
When a band of about 100 protesters showed up at a postal workers' rally featuring Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday, complete with purple hair and big drums, "they went a long way towards touching people and making connections," Zlatkin observed.
If unions move to support the protests in a major way, that could mean thousands more people marching in Lower Manhattan. Thus far the protesters have not managed to come near the 10,000 or so who attended the unrelated May 12 march on Wall Street. The Strong Economy for All Coalition, which receives support from the United Federation of Teachers, the Working Families Party, plus SEIU 32BJ and 1199, previously helped put together that demonstration. Now they will be rallying for the grassroots group.
"Their fight is our fight," director Michael Kink said. "They've chosen the right targets. We also want to see a society where folks other than the top 1 percent have a chance to say how things go."
Asked if the union support could dilute the message of the Occupy Wall Street protesters -- which has itself been dismissed as incoherent -- organizer DiSalvo said the rag tag group's stance would remain unchanged.
"Occupy Wall Street will not negotiate watering down its own message," she said, union support or not.
Jon Stewart Spoofs Anthony Bologna, Pepper-Spraying Wall Street Cop, With Christopher Meloni (VIDEO)
First Posted: 9/30/11 10:00 AM ET Updated: 9/30/11 10:02 AM ET
Jon Stewart took a break from his "Indecision 2012" coverage Thursday night to focus on a local problem currently grabbing the nation's attention: the ongoing NYC protest known as Occupy Wall Street.
But it wasn't the spirit of the young people organizing for democracy or even Michael Moore's drop-in that caught Stewart's attention the most. Instead it was the actions of one pepper-spray happy NYPD cop, Anthony Bologna (or, to Stewart, "Tony Baloney").
After a video emerged online of the officer indiscriminately emitting pepper spray in the faces of five female observers who were already standing behind a barricade, people demanded to know who this "human crop duster" was. After it was revealed to be Bologna, a Deputy Inspector for the NYPD, Stewart couldn't take the man's name, or his unacceptable behavior, seriously.
So, instead of chastising Bologna, Stewart did the out-of-control cop one better. He brought in ex-"Law & Order SVU" star Christopher Meloni to impersonate Bologna and his rogue, pepper-spraying ways in what's sure to be the next hit TV crime drama, "The Vigilogna."
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Subject: Re: occupy wall street Sat Oct 01, 2011 1:43 pm
now calling themselves a revolution and gong on in other cities...live stream at link
Camped out at Zuccuti Park since September 17, Occupy Wall Street, started out as a call to arms from anti-consumerist magazine AdBusters and turned into a protest and a hashtag (#OccupyWallStreet). And so far, the there's not sign of a slowdown.
The protestors, whose concerns span a smattering of topics including corporate influence, war and the widening wealth gap, feature some Baby Boomers, hair dye and a little bit of grunge, according to a recent report from The Huffington Post.
More specifically, the movement aims to “express a feeling of mass injustice,” according to the group’s declaration for the occupation of New York City released Friday. The injustices include the foreclosure crisis, work place discrimination and student loan debt, among a laundry list of others.
They’ve been met with media skepticism and clashed with the New York Police Department. Still, the group managed to attract attention and support from Americans across the country, even celebrities like Def-Jam co-founder Russell Simmons and Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon. Protests are already underway in Boston and San Francisco, with one is reportedly planned in Washington D.C. on Saturday.
Calling themselves an American revolution, the protestors say they plan to stay in the park indefinitely.
Shon Botado, a protestor staffing a first aid station told The Huffington Post, that he’s not leaving “until change is made to the financial structure.”
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Subject: Re: occupy wall street Sat Oct 01, 2011 1:51 pm
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Subject: Re: occupy wall street Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:26 pm
looks like they're going to start nick pickin with them now..and they are getting press for being bad humans.. Police arrest demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement after they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on the motorway on Saturday.
NBC News and news services updated 24 minutes ago 2011-10-02T02:42:25 About 500 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested on Saturday after blocking traffic lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge and attempting an unauthorized march across the span, police said.
On the second week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement, a large group of marchers broke off from others on the bridge's pedestrian walkway and headed across the Brooklyn-bound lanes.
Police arrest demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement after they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on the motorway on Saturday.
"Over 500 were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway, and that if they took roadway they would be arrested," said Paul J. Browne, deputy commissioner with the New York Police Department in a statement.
"Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Others proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway and were arrested," Browne said.
Both the walkway and Brooklyn-bound car lanes were shut to traffic, snarling traffic. Police reopened the bridge at 8:05 p.m. EDT.
..'We are not criminals' Witnesses described a chaotic scene on the famous suspension bridge as a sea of police officers surrounded the protesters using orange mesh netting.
Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and social inequality took their "solidarity march" to Brooklyn, but battled in a war of words against officers, chanting "We are not criminals" and "Let us go!"
Some protesters tried to get away as officers started handcuffing members of the group. Dozens of protesters were seen handcuffed and sitting on the span as three buses were called in to take them away, witnesses and organizers said.
The New York Times reported a few protesters had "clambered dangerously up the structure of the bridge to get to the wooden pedestrian walkway, which is about 15 feet above the road."
Erin Larkins, a graduate student at Columbia University who says she and her boyfriend have $130,000 combined in student loan debt, was among the thousands of protesters on the bridge. She said a friend persuaded her to join the march and she's glad she did.
"I don't think we're asking for much, just to wake up every morning not worrying whether we can pay the rent, or whether our next meal will be rice and beans again," Larkins wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
"No one is expecting immediate change. I think everyone is just hopeful that people will wake up a bit and realize that the more we speak up, the more the people that do have the authority to make changes in this world listen."
The march started about 3:30 p.m. EDT from the protesters' camp in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan near the former World Trade Center. Members of the group have vowed to stay at the park through the winter. An Occupy Wall Street protester lays with his dog on a mattress in Zuccotti Park in New York on Saturday.
The Occupy Wall Street group was joined by various unions, including the Transit Workers Union and the United Federation of Teachers, in the march to Brooklyn Celebrity support In addition to what they view as excessive force and unfair treatment of minorities, including Muslims, the movement is also protesting against home foreclosures, high unemployment and the 2008 bailouts.
Filmmaker Michael Moore and actress Susan Sarandon have stopped by the protesters' camp, which is plastered with posters with anti-Wall Street slogans and has a kitchen and library, to offer their support.
On Friday evening, more than 1,000 demonstrators, including representatives of labor organizations, held a peaceful march to police headquarters a few blocks north of City Hall to protest what they said was a heavy-handed police response the previous week. No arrests were reported.
A week ago, police arrested about 80 members of Occupy Wall Street near the Union Square shopping district as the marchers swarmed onto oncoming traffic.
A police commander doused a handful of women with pepper spray in an incident captured on video and spread via the Internet, galvanizing the loosely organized protest movement.
The group has gained support among some union members. The United Federation of Teachers and the Transport Workers Union Local 100, which has 38,000 members, are among those pledging solidarity.
The unions could provide important organizational and financial support for the largely leaderless movement.
Similar protests are sprouting in other cities, including Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.
NBC News New York and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report, as did Reuters and The Associated Press.
another story here..yep going to get some press now and the protests are spreading ....................................
Occupy Wall Street Arrests: An Eyewitness View Joshua Stephens, 33, had joined the protest march and had ended up on the Brooklyn Bridge. He managed to avoid being one of the 500 or so penned in by the NYPD and arrested. HuffPost reached him by phone, and he provided a first-hand narrative of just what happened on the bridge:
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