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Occupy Wall Street

kenny g said:
The only hope will be a bigger march tomorrow.- not too sure about these tactics. Even ML King would keep on walking to the police lines.

Good to hear the "whose streets?" being chanted on Brooklyn Bridge though.
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The core have been there from the 17th.... Well organised... even take-away food deliveries!!!
I dont think they are going anywhere in a hurry...
 
According to people on the livestream, Police reporting 400 arrests with regards to protesters on Brooklyn Bridge? All demonstrating peacefully it looks like? The New York Times and Reuters reporting the same number of arrests.

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.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/02/us-wallstreet-protests-idUSTRE7900BL20111002

This, from Occupy from Wall Street:

Moving From a Consumer to an Open Source Society.
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The arrest of the young girl (reportedly just 13 years old) is either the dumbest, or most brilliant move that the authorities could have done at this point? I predict the former.
 
Really hope this grows - what chance similar action in europe?

Lack of media coverage is shocking.
 
there are plans for London.. and a number of other European cities will be joining in to by the 6th....
even Tokyo will be going off...
This is just the start...
 
Protester reporting: 'Isolated a few hundred after letting others off the bridge. The police didn't have to arrest people, as the protesters were peaceful.'
 
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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/

In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested about 400 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.
The police did not immediately release precise arrest figures, but said it was the choice of those marchers that led to the swift enforcement.
“Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested,” said the head police spokesman, Paul J. Browne. “Those who took over the Brooklyn-bound roadway, and impeded vehicle traffic, were arrested.”
But many protesters said that they thought the police had tricked and trapped them, allowing them onto the bridge and even escorting them across, only to surround them in orange netting after hundreds of them had entered.
“The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us on to the roadway,” said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who was in the march but was not arrested.
Things came to a head shortly after 4 p.m., as the 1,500 or so marchers reached the foot of the Brooklyn-bound car lanes of the bridge, just east of City Hall.
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Kaka Tim said:
Really hope this grows - what chance similar action in europe?

Lack of media coverage is shocking.
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Isn't it just. I haven't seen or heard a single peep from the BBC or other UK news on this. They aren't shackled propaganda outlets, so why the coyness?
 
DotCommunist said:
Isn't it just. I haven't seen or heard a single peep from the BBC or other UK news on this. They aren't shackled propaganda outlets, so why the coyness?
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something here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15134806
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg used his weekly appearance on a radio show to criticise the protesters, saying they were targeting the wrong people.
"The protesters are protesting against people who make $40,000 or $50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That's the bottom line," he said.
"We always tend to blame the wrong people. We blame the banks. They were part of this, but so was Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae and Congress and you and me and everybody."
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So not a single word from the protesters, just the words of the mayor trying to paint this as an attack on the little guy and giving it a gloss of 'we are all in this together'. Not a mention of the cross-union endorsement, arrests and growing numbers.
 
What do you expect?

Live streaming teams are being arrested, three so far on Brooklyn Bridge.

Barricades put up by police. According to 'Occupy Wall Street' there is the possibility of an attack happening by the police tonight (Saturday. Eastern Time)?

All Power to the People!

More importantly, there are reports from the news feed that US steelworkers and other unions are declaring support for occupy wall street (OWS). If that's the case, then this is really going somewhere.

 
DotCommunist said:
Isn't it just. I haven't seen or heard a single peep from the BBC or other UK news on this. They aren't shackled propaganda outlets, so why the coyness?
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It's the lead story on the BBC site. On the front of the skynews and RTE sites as well.
 
It's on the front page of the BBC now:
Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested
About 500 people from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement have been arrested on New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, police say.

Those arrested were part of a larger group crossing the bridge from Manhattan, where they have been camped out near Wall Street for two weeks.

Some of the protesters entered the bridge's roadway where they were met by a large police presence and detained.

The loosely-organised group is protesting against corporate greed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15140671
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Reports saying 700 arrests. Those arrested being held on buses for hours, handcuffed, with no food or water. Legal observers arrested. Not confirmed.
 
copliker said:
That appears to have originated from someone called Laurie.
Careful now.
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The moderators on the feed have said similar. They've just reported that non-serving marines have been on the protest today, but not in an organised fashion.
 
audiotech said:
What do you expect?

Live streaming teams are being arrested, three so far on Brooklyn Bridge.

Barricades put up by police. According to 'Occupy Wall Street' there is the possibility of an attack happening by the police tonight (Saturday. Eastern Time)?

All Power to the People!

More importantly, there are reports from the news feed that US steelworkers and other unions are declaring support for occupy wall street (OWS). If that's the case, then this is really going somewhere.

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Statement from USW union

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/usw-supports-the-occupy-wall-street-protest-movement-2011-09-30
 
An emphatic endorsement.

The beeb has devoted all of 2 minutes to reporting this on this mornings rolling news.

Great to see the unions linking into this- it looks to be snowballing and I can only hopeit really is. When was the last time 'labor' really flexed muscle in america? With any luck this thing could become a significant force. And if the OB keep on with the heavy stuff they will only stoke things further.
 
DotCommunist said:
An emphatic endorsement.

The beeb has devoted all of 2 minutes to reporting this on this mornings rolling news.
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Yes I saw this. It was pathetic, but better than bugger all. This was on news 24, not BBC1. I don't know if they reported it on the latter but if not then I can't imagine very many people having seen it.

E2A it's a large piece on the Graun/Observer site this morn, they are saying 700 arrested:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/02/occupy-wall-street-protesters-brooklyn-bridge
 
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