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Oh, Conservatives
Why is it easier for you to believe that 150 million people are lazy and stupid than 400 people are greedy and malicious?
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While what happened was indeed tragic, it is in no way, shape, or form the first death in the US caused by police violence. I strongly suggest you pick up a history book.
…Somebody come educate their cousin.
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Proposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement!
i don’t know if this is the official list but this is what i found googling ‘occupy wall street demands’
are they kidding with these? i don’t know. i think maybe i shouldn’t even comment on OWS for a while.
I started laughing at the very first demand, thinking it was a joke. Then I got mad. You want people to risk their futures for this shit? Man look, I need one of these damned movements to have some concept of reality.
Okay, I made it through the whole list without laughing.
“These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.”
And then I lost it.
A Protester’s Account of the Occupy Wall Street Brooklyn Bridge March
I figured I should write down what happened today, before I forget or before too many stories get muddled together.
My friend, my partner, and I arrived at Zucotti Park around 3 for the march, which began quickly, after everyone shared various rules. (No violence, write the phone number for legal council on yr arm, etc, etc)
We marched through lower Manhattan, and no route was specified, but we were told to not pass the head of the crowd, which was carrying a banner. Cops stood by and kept us on the sidewalk.
Then I noticed we were approaching the Brooklyn Bridge.
Cops were ushering people onto the bridge, but as I noticed we were walking into the roadway, I started to get scared. We climbed over the fence onto the pedestrian bridge. The first half of the crowd continued on the road, while the second half continued on the pedestrian bridge. Cops were flanking both sides of the entrance to the bridge and there was no way to turn back. As we walked up the elevated pedestrian bridge, we heard cops call for backup and they drove 2 police vans backwards up the bridge to where the protesters were. They stopped traffic and then brought vans in from the other side as well and trapped the protesters.
We watched from above as people began climbing the cords and metal of the bridge to escape the cops. People on the pedestrian bridge were trying to pull people up out of the roadway.
We continued forward into Brooklyn as the cops brought a net onto the bridge from the Manhattan side.
By the time we gathered into the park in Brooklyn, only a few hundred of us were left.
Cops began surrounding the park, and we all disbanded.
One of my friends was in the area where cops had people corralled. According to her Facebook updates and tweets, and other updates from trapped protesters, a child was arrested, and busses were brought in to arrest every single person. All of the men were taken first, and then all of the women.
They were told they were being arrested for disorderly conduct.
The police led them there and trapped them.
Please reblog this. People need to know what happened, and cops need to be held accountable for their actions.
What the fuck.
wow. my point made. i don’t even need to say anything anymore! eventually, tumblr WILL get to it! :D
Down the memory hole.
The revolution will not be televised… but it will be live streamed over the internet
REBLOG THIS - Its the peoples era!
I’m not good at math, but that looks like more than 100 people. Just sayin.
Reblogged for truth.
When 700 uniformed members of the ALPA (a pilot union) showed up on Wall Street to add their voices and spotlight their contract disputes coming out of the merger of United and Continental, the first real coverage came from newspapers overseas. When the U.S. media started reporting on this, it was mainly to draw a contrast between the perceived professionalism and seriousness of the pilots as contrasted with the ramshackle and disorganized unrelated protest that was also going on in the same place at the same time.
Yes, they’ve chosen to treat it as some minor coincidence that this union chose to hold its demonstration in the same vicinity, as Wall Street is just the natural place to go and protest airline management.
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Wait, what did you mean you wanted to be treated like a human being and not like cattle?
This is what democracy looks like…?
This is how they got us. They did this on either end of a street and closed in on us while being unnecessarily violent. And that is how I got arrested.
#That awkward moment when this WOULD HAVE BEEN A PEACEFUL PROTEST IF NOT FOR THE FUCKING NYPD.
I wonder if any of the protestors at this action are familiar with the first mass arrests enacted in this country, which took place in NYC in 2004. It doesn’t seem like it, by what I am reading over the last few days. These methods of theirs are offensive, but should not be shocking.
The mass arrests of 2004 came down under collusion between George W. Bush and Mayor Bloomberg. We were known as the RNC 1800 because many of us were protesting the disgusting fact that the Republicans were coming into NYC, and holding a political convention that was using the attacks of 9/11 to boost their political fortunes. The police wanted the city tidy for all the politicians and their out of town disciples. So the cops swept the streets, arresting everyone. Gathered peaceably or not. Those were their orders. A total of almost 2000 people were picked up and it didn’t matter if you were on the sidewalk passing by, coming out of a bodega with a half gallon of milk, a member of the Press, or marching in the street (as I was).
Of course they didn’t have room to put us through a proper process, so they bused us all to an abandoned bus garage (known as Pier 57), and crammed us into makeshift cages and pens with gross, oily, floors. They woke us up in the middle of the night screaming at us. They loathed us. They smashed peoples’ instruments and shoved us around. They zipped us up in plastic cuffs so tight for so long (4 or 5 hours) that it was tortuous, and when they finally took them off, I nearly screamed in pain, the muscle cramps were like an attack from inside. They held most of us for days, in filthy clothing, with no lawyer, hardly any food, and kept us out of contact with everyone. It was disgusting. It was completely extra-legal, and it was unearthed later that the police has been infiltrating activist groups and monitoring us as part of a plan called “Operation Overlord II.” The cases/trials dragged on for a long time. Almost all of us had charges dropped (except people who grew violent), though this little stain on my record still haunts me whenever I try to cross the border into Canada.
I wrote about it originally, and posted photos, here.
I only ask, and add this info, because if you are going to be participating in actions, it is important to know the history of these things, especially when they have happened in the same town. The mass arrests of the RNC 1800 were a precedent. The methods (barricading with this orange mesh, misdirecting people down cul de sacs, taping protestors with video and so on) were tested out already. If you are going to protest and hold actions, come armed with all information possible.
TO THE PROTESTORS:
If they make you sign ANYTHING if you are arrested make sure to tell them you do so under “duress and coercion” and even initial the form with “V.C. Your Signature” which is latin for Vi Coactus”.
