• Occupy Wall Street: Now Spreading to Union Square Park
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[IMG]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1047541.1332262630!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg[/IMG] [sub]Protesters are Occupying a new venue, the southern part of Union Square Park[/sub] [release] Some Occupy Wall Street protesters has moved out of the Financial District to Union Square Park, and they say they are bent on staying in their new digs. About 40 hard-core Occupy demonstrators have been in the park’s plaza area on 14th St. since Saturday night, with the crowd often swelling to more than 100 during the day. The move came after protesters were kicked out of downtown’s Zuccotti Park during a six-month anniversary rally Saturday night. At Union Square, protesters have set up an impromptu library and information stand, akin to the ones which were in Zuccotti during their two-month occupation of the lower Manhattan plaza. “This is the fourth day we’re here,” said Augusto Sandino, a 20-year-old protester from Brooklyn. “We’re planning to stay here.” Sandino, who volunteers at the Occupy Wall Street Info Desk, said the group is not just planning to stay in Union Square Park, but actively trying to get more people to take up residence by using social media and the website [URL="http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet"]OccupyWallStreet.org[/URL]. “We’re starting from scratch right now,” Sandino said. “We haven’t had a physical occupation since November 15th,” he added, referring to the date booted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park in an overnight raid. “We’re hoping to have enough people so that [Union Square Park\] is at capacity,” he said. Sandino said the group hopes to use the occupation as a launching point for upcoming events, including planned weekly marches down to Wall Street every Friday in March. They are also trying to gain support for a general strike on May 1. “We want to grow the occupation until the police start giving us problems,” he said. “So far they haven’t been telling us to leave.” Authorities say the group can sit and lie down in the park on the condition they do not swell in number to more than 25 overnight. They also cannot block access to the park with banners, books or other objects. But a Parks Department police source told the Daily News that the agency is working with the NYPD and its “higher ups” on a plan to deal with the protesters, especially those who want to camp out overnight, hinting that their days may be numbered. [/release] [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/occupy-wall-st-occupying-union-square-article-1.1047545"]Source.[/URL] (Can someone tell me why release tags aren't working?)
Oh shit, that was one of my favorite hang out spots.
'kay. Honestly, I'm done taking this movement seriously. After all of the ridiculous things the local movement in my area has posted (the police are pawns of the 1%! Fight the pigs!), and an encounter with one of their own decked out in Guy Fawks gear with the inability to even tell me what sort of shape the United States is in financially, I'm starting to believe what people were saying about this thing from the beginning.
[QUOTE]Authorities say the group can sit and lie down in the park on the condition they do not swell in number to more than 25 overnight. They also cannot block access to the park with banners, books or other objects.[/quote] And then they go and do the exact opposite of what they were told and cry "police brutality! police state!!!11111". Clearly they're already preparing, hence the "NYPD stop acting like tyrants!!" sign.
They're still going? fucking hell
Almost forgotten about them. Come to think about it the "occupy" movement in the nearest city from where I live is still going. Actually I think it's becoming more of a homeless camp than a real occupy camp thingymabob.
Even if you don't like it, I'd rather have this movement in the spotlight instead of the tea baggers yelling about goverment involvement with their medicare.
[QUOTE=SubZero;35222724] Come to think about it the "occupy" movement in the nearest city from where I live is still going. Actually I think it's becoming more of a homeless camp than a real occupy camp thingymabob.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that's sort of how the group in San Diego started. Activists and a few homeless folks banded together and started making a presence and about a month and a half later we started participating in the local council, attracting sponsors and well-connected individuals to organize larger events.
They really need to start doing stuff to connect with workers instead of an occupation like this, but I wish the best for the general strike regardless.
Shouldn't they have been there in the first place? After all, they wouldn't have had the problem of being on someone's private property.
[QUOTE=ghosevil;35222850]Yeah, that's sort of how the group in San Diego started. Activists and a few homeless folks banded together and started making a presence and about a month and a half later we started participating in the local council, attracting sponsors and well-connected individuals to organize larger events.[/QUOTE] Well that may be so but the city I'm talking about hasn't even got a tenth of the population that San Diego has and it's the capital of the most northern province in the Netherlands, so if you are familiar with the Netherlands you'll know what I mean.
I think we're doomed How? The fact that the original OWS were educated members of our youth as well as working class citizens such as firefighters, teachers and members of the government workforce and their voices going unheard is just terrible. How the media is owned by the corporations; paid to drown-out their voices. Apparently, having a voice in the USA and being educated on your facts can make people call you hippies, communist/socialist and even anti-American in the eyes of your paid-for corporations. I don't know whether to feel alarmed that nobody is concerned about the injustice being openly conveyed by our broken educational system and the corruption of our very own Congress or the fact that the government/corporations go to such extent as to use militaristic force on these people. This is solely my opinion on the matter, take it with a pinch of salt.
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;35223128]I think we're doomed How? The fact that the original OWS were educated members of our youth as well as working class citizens such as firefighters, teachers and members of the government workforce and their voices going unheard is just terrible. How the media is owned by the corporations; paid to drown-out their voices. Apparently, having a voice in the USA and being educated on your facts can make people call you hippies, communist/socialist and even anti-American in the eyes of your paid-for corporations. I don't know whether to feel alarmed that nobody is concerned about the injustice being openly conveyed by our broken educational system and the corruption of our very own Congress or the fact that the government/corporations go to such extent as to use militaristic force on these people. This is solely my opinion on the matter, take it with a pinch of salt.[/QUOTE] Well no shit they're not rich. And also if the OWS (OUSP?) is going to continue they need to take an approach the tea party protesters took, no violence, attacking police, or whatever else is going on. And to follow the damn rules of areas they protest in instead of blatantly ignoring them and then calling the people who gave them rules "blahblah policestate"
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;35224400]Well no shit they're not rich. And also if the OWS (OUSP?) is going to continue they need to take an approach the tea party protesters took, no violence, attacking police, or whatever else is going on. And to follow the damn rules of areas they protest in instead of blatantly ignoring them and then calling the people who gave them rules "blahblah policestate"[/QUOTE] Can't even compare the teaparty with them first of all. The teaparty was astro-turfed, the police never gave them a hard time so there was no chance for confrontation between protestors and the police. OWS was a very peaceful movement, regardless. When you have protests of that scale it's envitable there would be some scuffles between the police and the protestors.
[QUOTE=Hidole555;35218832][t]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1047541.1332262630!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg[/t] [/QUOTE] Pretty sure that's just a homeless dude playing along for free food and stuff.
how shameful that people are protesting against a broken system which spinning out of control
[QUOTE=Zenpod;35219512]They're still going? fucking hell[/QUOTE] They kind of hit a bit of a low point in the winter with the cold temperatures and whatnot, but it seems like their numbers are beginning to swell up again with the early Spring weather rolling in.
It pisses me off that almost nobody understands what the movement is about. It's about the banks getting bail outs instead of the people, the corporations control of the media and government, and the fact that the rich are basically screwing the economy over for money (for example: Moving all factories over seas for cheap labor, removing jobs from the US).
Oh please just die already, they haven't accomplished shit.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;35219410]And then they go and do the exact opposite of what they were told and cry "police brutality! police state!!!11111". Clearly they're already preparing, hence the "NYPD stop acting like tyrants!!" sign.[/QUOTE] lmao dude the NYPD is fucking awful everyone has known this since long before occupy [editline]20th March 2012[/editline] and "not following orders" doesn't justify any and all police responses you turd
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;35223128]I think we're doomed How? The fact that the original OWS were educated members of our youth as well as working class citizens such as firefighters, teachers and members of the government workforce and their voices going unheard is just terrible. How the media is owned by the corporations; paid to drown-out their voices. Apparently, having a voice in the USA and being educated on your facts can make people call you hippies, communist/socialist and even anti-American in the eyes of your paid-for corporations. I don't know whether to feel alarmed that nobody is concerned about the injustice being openly conveyed by our broken educational system and the corruption of our very own Congress or the fact that the government/corporations go to such extent as to use militaristic force on these people. This is solely my opinion on the matter, take it with a pinch of salt.[/QUOTE] Unfortunately I'm starting to feel this way too, although, I'm optimistic a swell in numbers over the summer could put this back in the spot light. Would certainly be interesting how the presidential candidates react to this.
This is just like the flower power movement. Only with less people and more government opposition.
Oshit, I'm passing by there on Friday. :v:
The Occupy Movement was a great thing, but stupid people ruined it. Not saying I wouldn't like to see it gain some momentum and get going again, but it's getting hard for me to take it seriously.
[QUOTE=SubZero;35223040]Well that may be so but the city I'm talking about hasn't even got a tenth of the population that San Diego has and it's the capital of the most northern province in the Netherlands, so if you are familiar with the Netherlands you'll know what I mean.[/QUOTE] So....Leeuwarden or Assen?
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;35229876]So....Leeuwarden or Assen?[/QUOTE] Leeuwarden.
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;35224400]Well no shit they're not rich. And also if the OWS (OUSP?) is going to continue they need to take an approach the tea party protesters took, no violence, attacking police, or whatever else is going on. And to follow the damn rules of areas they protest in instead of blatantly ignoring them and then calling the people who gave them rules "blahblah policestate"[/QUOTE] Even Ghandi's movement for Indian freedom had a few jackasses using violence toward their goal. This is no different. Not that I support the violence. I mean that a few jackasses are being violent.
Go little protest train go! They're the little movement that could. Too bad it looks like it may not succeed, but only time will tell.
Currently, Union square is being raided. [url]http://www.ustream.tv/timcast[/url]
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;35241484]Currently, Union square is being raided. [url]http://www.ustream.tv/timcast[/url][/QUOTE] Doesn't look that bad. They're all just standing there.
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