Occupy Wall Street NYC

Aerianne · Dec 16, 2011

On Saturday, December 17th – the 3 month anniversary of the birth of this movement, we will gather to celebrate Occupy Wall Street and to occupy space together.

Saturday, December 17th, noon

An all day performance event at Duarte Square, 6th and Canal

On Saturday, December 17th Occupy Wall Street — with support from more than 1400 faith leaders, elders of the civil rights movement, prominent artists and community members — will gather at noon in Duarte Square, downtown Manhattan, for an all day performance event. This event is part of a call to re-occupy in the wake of the coordinated attacks and subsequent evictions of occupations across the nation and around the world.

OWS has sparked a national movement that has exposed the moral bankruptcy of an economy of homeless families and vacant homes, crowded classrooms and empty schools, Wall Street bonuses and endless unemployment lines. This weekend, in a vacant lot at the heart of lower Manhattan, we will continue to occupy the nation’s imagination with art, culture, and our vibrant cry for freedom--as we call out for justice and equality for the 99% through the exercise of our first amendment rights.

Canal and 6th Ave is the site of a vacant lot owned by Trinity Real Estate, the corporate arm of Trinity on Wall Street. Over the past month, since the eviction of Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) on November 14th, members of the Occupy Wall Street movement with interfaith leaders, elders of the civil rights movement and artists have asked Trinity on Wall Street to do the right thing, and offer sanctuary to the movement in this vacant lot. As Occupy Wall Street supporter Bishop George E. Packard cautions, “I have this great worry that this venerable parish will be on the wrong side of history...Think of it as offering hospitality to travelers from our future who bring the message of "no injustice, no more." If we really saw OWS for who they are rather than putting up roadblocks in their path we'd truly delight in their coming!” In the spirit of Advent, we urge Trinity Church to do the right thing and stand with us on December 17 as we mark the three-month anniversary of the Occupy movement and the one-year anniversary of the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, which sparked the Arab Spring and a global movement for social justice.
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http://www.occupywallst.org/article/re-occupy-d17/

Aerianne · Dec 17, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Anniversary: Live Stream From Saturday's Events (LIVE VIDEO)

http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/9488285

The chant, currently on the ustream link is:

"Hell No! We Won't Go! Occupy 2.0"

Aerianne · Dec 17, 2011

Approximately 40 Arrested after marching to 6th Ave and Canal St., including clergy and local residents.

Occupiers have taken the park!

http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc

Aerianne · Dec 17, 2011

Protesters filling Times Square. I heard that the police did some kettling ...shoppers, tourists, protesters....

http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc

Tyrsonswood · Dec 17, 2011

Their corporate masters will be pissed if they corralled shoppers and tourists.... those people spend money.

Aerianne · Dec 17, 2011

March leaving Times Square headed to Wall Street for General Assembly...

This is [sarcasm]brilliant[/sarcasm] on behalf of the NYPD. They are clearing tourists and shoppers from Time Square, a week before Xmas, in anticipation of the Occupy march coming thru...

This just gets more and more [sarcasm]brilliant[/sarcasm]. The NYPD are now stationed at and "protecting" the bull on Wall Street, like it's their God...

(From Sept 17, but excellent pic non the less)

http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc

Aerianne · Dec 17, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Hunger Strikers - 15 Days Without Food

Remember the Occupy Wall Street hunger strike team? Their strike began two weeks ago as an effort to get Trinity Wall Street to allow OWS to occupy a vacant lot that the church owns at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street. In the beginning, they had three people hunger-striking (and three more who were stand-ins when the others were arrested twice in a 12-hour period ). Two weeks later, their numbers are down to two: Miami native Malory Butler, 19, 23-year-old Diego Ibanez of Provo, Utah. The Voice (link below) visited with Butler and Ibanez this evening to see how they're doing after what they say is a solid two weeks of eating no food at all. They were sitting on the sidewalk outside of Trinity Church, a block or two under Zuccotti Park. The pair looked surprisingly OK, though both seemed pale and tired and said they felt weak. Butler is actually on her 15th day with no food, having started her strike the night of the Occupy Museums event at Lincoln Center with Philip Glass as guest.
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http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_b51_2/church-occupy-
street.html

The Voice Story:http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/12/occupy_wall_str_38.php

lillallyloukins · Dec 18, 2011

HEROES, right there!!!

The_Phantom · Dec 18, 2011

Unfortunately, I doubt it will have any effect at all. Just a couple more of the 99% that the 1% do not have to contend with. Reality sucks.

Aerianne · Dec 18, 2011

BISHOP Among 50 Arrested As Occupy Wall Street Protesters Tear Down Fences In Violent Clash With Police

A retired bishop was among more than 50 people arrested after the Occupy Wall Street movement stormed another New York City park in an attempt to find a new home.

Former Episcopal bishop George E. Packard was led away in cuffs after climbing a ladder to illegally enter Juan Pablo Duarte Square in the west SoHo neighbourhood of the city during the demo.

He was one of hundreds of demonstrators, members of the clergy and elected officials who descended on the park and scaled a chain-link fence by a lot they’re eyeing as a new campsite.
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Story and More Pics:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ke-claim-newest-New-York-City-encampment.html

MikeE · Dec 18, 2011

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Trinity is a Zuccotti Park neighbor that helped demonstrators assemble, and provided them shelter in the three months since the movement began. The day after authorities moved in and cleaned out Zuccotti Park, about a dozen protesters went to the vacant lot, clipped the fence at the church-owned property and were arrested, along with some journalists.

Since then, some Occupy protesters have launched a bid to gain the church's consent for them to use the space. Trinity's Rev. James H. Cooper said giving the protesters access to the lot would not be a safe or smart move.

"There are no facilities at the Canal Street lot. Demanding access and vandalizing the property by a determined few OWS protesters won't alter the fact that there are no basic elements to sustain an encampment," he wrote in a statement. "The health, safety and security problems posed by an encampment here, compounded by winter weather, would dwarf those experienced at Zuccotti Park."
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http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-protesters-scale-fence-vacant-lot-211008513.html

Aerianne · Dec 18, 2011

‘It’s So Not Over,’ Say Occupy Protests

Three months into the Occupy Wall Street movement, protesters took their message uptown in a march that surprised the police and many Christmas shoppers, but helped explain what the economic crisis means to average people, writes Danny Schechter.
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The plan for the day, as announced, was to gather at Duarte Park at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street to attempt a RE-Occupation of vacant land owned by Trinity Church, more of a real-estate company than a house of worship.
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Police in riot gear had ousted the occupiers the last time they tried to take over the space a few weeks back, and, since then, there has been a rancorous standoff between a Church that is supported by many fat-cat one-percenters and OWS’s volunteer non-violent army of outrage.
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Trinity Church may be there to serve God, but the defense of their real-estate portfolio seems to come before their pretensions at social justice.

Trinity Church may be there to serve God, but the defense of their real-estate portfolio seems to come before their pretensions at social justice.
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A few activists and clergy were arrested for climbing over the fence while others tried, but failed, to knock it down. (There were more than 50 arrests on Saturday)
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Saturday was a big Xmas Shopping day. While tens of thousands of New Yorkers were flocking to stores in Times and Herald Square.
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the movement then launched a previously unscheduled march – but, at the last minute changed its direction and headed uptown, catching the police unaware.
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The Live Stream people went with them so what happened next was shown on the Internet.
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At one point, I saw coverage by three cameras. One view, in ironic counter-point, covered several cops defending the statue of the Bull on an empty Wall Street traffic junction. No one there was bullish. Bullshit anyone?

The cops attacked as the activists marched up Seventh Avenue at 29th Street, arresting some for marching when they should be walking, a crime that may soon by punishable by the crazed new National Defense Authorization Act measure treating the homeland as a battlefield.

The crowd then broke into smaller guerrilla-style groups, darting in and out of various streets, and ending up in a packed Times Square on a Saturday night at the height of the Christmas shopping season. This march was spontaneous, powered by the power of surprise. The police actually chased some out-of-towners out of Times Square to try to cut them off at the pass, but failed.

Before the men in Blue, led by men in White, could reassert their version of Law and Order, and while shoppers and tourists watched, the occupiers began “mic-checking,” with individual after individual shouting out “Why I Occupy,” and offering personal statements and testimony that were repeated several times.

In this way, individual members of the movement, from every class, color and gender, spoke with eloquence about their reasons for protesting — personal reasons and social reasons, national reasons and global reasons, economic reasons and political reasons reached out to thousands.

They had to electrify whoever was watching. Their passion and sincerity was there for all to see. I watched the Live Stream of the event on a computer in Harlem and was moved, at some points, to tears by how articulate and reasonable they were. They later left the square and returned to Zuccotti Park for a late-night General Assembly meeting.
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Full story:http://consortiumnews.com/2011/12/18/its-so-not-over-say-occupy-protests/

Tyrsonswood · Dec 18, 2011

One view, in ironic counter-point, covered several cops defending the statue of the Bull on an empty Wall Street traffic junction.
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Anybody got a photo of this? It should go viral......

Aerianne · Dec 19, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIqQ-o2lo1A"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIqQ-o2lo1A

Retired Episcopal Bishop (and Vietnam veteran) George Packard, dressed in a purple cassock, was the first to mount a festive yellow ladder over the fence around Trinity’s lot, climb up, and jump down—a trespasser on the land of his own church.

Father Mayer soon followed, as did Sister Susan Wilcox, along with a handful of other clergy and several dozen occupiers, who then called on others to join, to come in, to climb the fence and give them strength in numbers.

lillallyloukins · Dec 21, 2011

junglejack said:

unfortunately ,the longer it goes on it will become a place where the cities homeless and undesirables show up. For a quick meal, or a money scam, or outright violence fueled by too much booze- - this bunch will be thrown in the same videos, same news programs, and same cells . as the peaceful protesters.

Its already happening in NY- some of the support they were getting a few weeks ago seems to gone away- - It seems to have gotten qioter, and media scum such as fox will portray this as a sign of weekness* *
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i would just like to point out that there are thousands of homeless people and drunks etc, who live in cities across the globe... ofcourse Occupy movements that occupy outside are going to be beacons of attraction... atleast we see these people as people... the media are using them as leverage in their attempts to demonize the movement... sad... just sayin'...

Aerianne said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIqQ-o2lo1A

Retired Episcopal Bishop (and Vietnam veteran) George Packard, dressed in a purple cassock, was the first to mount a festive yellow ladder over the fence around Trinity’s lot, climb up, and jump down—a trespasser on the land of his own church.

Father Mayer soon followed, as did Sister Susan Wilcox, along with a handful of other clergy and several dozen occupiers, who then called on others to join, to come in, to climb the fence and give them strength in numbers.
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AWESOME :daisy: it's moments like that... right there :2thumbsup:

RooRshack · Dec 22, 2011

On the last page, those are fucking awesome pictures of climbing over the fence.

Aerianne · Dec 23, 2011

This is the Bishop who led the climb over the fence, and his wife who was "kneed in the chest several times, crushed under the fence, and thrown" by NYPD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edbr5GNXT-g"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edbr5GNXT-g

junglejack · Dec 23, 2011

--This is rich: The NYPD is threatening to sue Occupy Wall Street if any police officers are injured in the line of duty. Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins told the New York Post:

“In light of the growing violence attendant to the 'Occupy' movements across the country, particularly as evidenced by the recent events in Oakland, I am compelled to place these so-called 'occupiers' on notice that physical assaults on police officers will not be tolerated."

"I am deeply concerned that protesters will be emboldened by the recent rash of violent acts against police officers in other cities. New York’s police officers are working around the clock as the already overburdened economy in New York is being drained by 'occupiers' who intentionally and maliciously instigate needless and violent confrontations with the police."

- We must be doin something right* * what a joke* *

Tyrsonswood · Dec 23, 2011

Wait..... It's the cops that are being violent.... If they hurt themselves in the act of being violent they will sue.

That's rich.

Aerianne · Dec 23, 2011

Thanks for the head's up on this story, Junglejack! I would say I'm appalled by this but NYPD has taught me not to be appalled by anything they do.

Anyone who doubts the unprovoked violent attacks on the part of NYPD against non-violent Occupy protesters need only look back through this thread to refresh their memory.

Cops Threaten to Sue Nonexistent Violent Protesters

According to the New York Post, the president of NYPD's Sergeant's Benevolent Association has threatened to sue any protester who injures a police officer.

"In light of the growing violence attendant to the 'Occupy' movements across the country, particularly as evidenced by the recent events in Oakland, I am compelled to place these so-called 'occupiers' on notice that physical assaults on police officers will not be tolerated... Protesters are not immunized from civil liability merely because their victims are wearing the uniform of the New York City Police Department."

From the NYPD's description, and the Post article, you'd think members of the Black Bloc have been running around throwing bricks at NYPD officers' heads for weeks. But the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York have been non-violent; whatever scuffles have erupted have been sparked by police aggression.

There was the notable exception of a small group of Oakland occupiers who allegedly threw bottles at Oakland PD last night—and were met with an overwhelming barrage of tear gas and beanbags—which just highlights how overwhelmingly peaceful the other demonstrations have been.

Still, the NYPD Sergeant Association claims over 20 officers have suffered protest-related injuries in New York.
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Salon reporter Justin Elliott, who has been following the movement closely, is skeptical :

Occupy has been almost without exception been a non-violent movement. The vast majority of participants I've encountered in New York are committed to the principle of non-violence. I've previously written about adventurist elements in Zuccotti Park, but on all the marches I've been on in New York, I have never seen anything close to an assault on a police officer. Nor has there been video of such an assault, to my knowledge.

Actually we do remember one incident of violence against a police officer caught on tape: An NYPD officer accidentally got a blast to the face when Anthony Bologna pepper-sprayed those female protesters.
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http://gawker.com/5854050/cops-threaten-to-sue-nonexistent-violent-protesters

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