Us Protesters Rally To Occupy Wall Street Options

[André]

Protesters gather in New York's financial hub for demonstration against what organisers call corporate dominance.

Building on the momentum of the Arab Spring movements, protesters in the US are gathering in New York City's financial district in a bid to show mass resistance against the dominance of the country's financial system.

What started as an online campaign has translated into action on the ground, with protest organisers calling for thousands of people to "occupy Wall Street" on Saturday.

"On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months," organisers wrote on the www.occupywallst.org website.

"Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants."

The leaderless movement includes hacktivist group Anonymous among the protesters. The group released a video online calling on people to take to the streets on September 17.

Similar to the structure of the hacktivist group itself there is no defined central authority, but Twitter accounts like @AnonOps are hubs of information for those attending the protests in person and virtually.

The Stream is following events in New York City and around the globe via social media and will update the elements below as the story progresses.

more... http://stream.aljazeera.com/

[Quest]

This is more than likely an NWO led operation.

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=334433#ixzz1XkU3YdBP

Wall Street targeted for Britain-style riots
'Day of rage' aims to 'bring down the stock market'
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Posted: August 16, 2011
11:37 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2011 WND

Firefighters douse a building destroyed in the initial rioting in Tottenham, North London

In the wake of Britain's riots, a group of American radicals are planning a "Day of Rage" targeting Wall Street and U.S. capitalism.

The upcoming protests, replete with a planned tent city in downtown Manhattan, is closely tied to the founders of ACORN and leaders of major U.S. unions, including the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU.

There are indications the protesters are training to incite violence, resist arrest and disrupt the legal system.

The protest aims to take root nationwide.

Activists are advertising on social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter for a "Day of Rage" on Sept. 17 to begin with the "occupation" of Wall Street and continue with protests across the nation.

Read about the "ballot box stuffers," "urban terrorists," "gangsters" and others who make up "Obama's favorite community organizing group," in "Subversion Inc."

Planners have their own website – USDayofRage.org – which tells protesters to "bring your own tent."

The website is not specific about the purpose of the "Day of Rage" other than calling for "integrity" to be "restored to our elections."

The site accuses corporations of using "money to act as the voices of millions, while individual citizens, the legitimate voters, are silenced and demoralized by the farce."

Read more: Wall Street targeted for Britain-style riots
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=334433#ixzz1YGgKY4LR

[André]

The American Revolution Begins Sept 17th(official site)

A Modest Call to Action on this September 17th

Published 2011-09-18 01:46:38 UTC by agnosticnixie

This statement is ours, and for anyone who will get behind it. Representing ourselves, we bring this call for revolution.

We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all people, and because no other reason should be needed. However, this freedom has been largely taken from the people, and slowly made to trickle down, whenever we get angry.

Money, it has been said, has taken over politics. In truth, we say, money has always been part of the capitalist political system. A system based on the existence of have and have nots, where inequality is inherent to the system, will inevitably lead to a situation where the haves find a way to rule, whether by the sword or by the dollar.

We agree that we need to see election reform. However, the election reform proposed ignores the causes which allowed such a system to happen. Some will readily blame the federal reserve, but the political system has been beholden to political machinations of the wealthy well before its founding.

We need to address the core facts: these corporations, even if they were unable to compete in the electoral arena, would still remain control of society. They would retain economic control, which would allow them to retain political control. Term limits would, again, not solve this, as many in the political class already leave politics to find themselves as part of the corporate elites.

We need to retake the freedom that has been stolen from the people, altogether.

If you agree that freedom is the right to communicate, to live, to be, to go, to love, to do what you will without the impositions of others, then you might be one of us.

If you agree that a person is entitled to the sweat of their brows, that being talented at management should not entitle others to act like overseers and overlords, that all workers should have the right to engage in decisions, democratically, then you might be one of us.

If you agree that freedom for some is not the same as freedom for all, and that freedom for all is the only true freedom, then you might be one of us.

If you agree that power is not right, that life trumps property, then you might be one of us.

If you agree that state and corporation are merely two sides of the same oppressive power structure, if you realize how media distorts things to preserve it, how it pits the people against the people to remain in power, then you might be one of us.

And so we call on people to act

We call for protests to remain active in the cities. Those already there, to grow, to organize, to raise consciousnesses, for those cities where there are no protests, for protests to organize and disrupt the system.

We call for workers to not only strike, but seize their workplaces collectively, and to organize them democratically. We call for students and teachers to act together, to teach democracy, not merely the teachers to the students, but the students to the teachers. To seize the classrooms and free minds together.

We call for the unemployed to volunteer, to learn, to teach, to use what skills they have to support themselves as part of the revolting people as a community.

We call for the organization of people's assemblies in every city, every public square, every township.

We call for the seizure and use of abandoned buildings, of abandoned land, of every property seized and abandoned by speculators, for the people, for every group that will organize them.

We call for a revolution of the mind as well as the body politic.

more... https://occupywallst.org/

[André]

[GroundPounder]

like others have observed, wall street is open monday-friday, so by all means 'occupy' on saturday...
how sanitary...

[André]

The occupation is meant to be an ongoing thing, we will see how things evolve, in any case the demonstrations and occupations against the financial institutions is international in scope and hopefully it will make a difference, it all depends how far people want to push this thing, since this movement has no real leaders...

September 17th EVERYWHERE!
global actions against banks and banksters

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET in New York, USA – Read the plan of action.
#TOMALABOLSA in Madrid, Spain – Read the plan of action. Fb event.
#TOMALABOLSA in Barcelona, Spain – Read the plan of action. Fb event.
#TOMALABOLSA in Valencia, Spain – Fb event
#TOMALABOLSA in Bilbao, Spain – Fb event
#TOMALABOLSA in Santander, in Spain – Camping 2 days in front of Bank Santander. Read the plan of action.
#TOMALABOLSA in Las Palmas, in Spain – Read the plan of action.
#OCCUPAZIONEPIAZZAAFFARI in Milan, Italy – Fb event.
#OCCUPYBANKOFENGLAND, #UKUncut in London, England – Fb event. other fb event.
#USDORSF San Francisco, USA – Read the plan of action.
#USDORLosA Los Angeles, USA – Read the plan of action.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET in Austin, USA – Read the plan of action.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET in Seattle, USA – Read the plan of action.
#TAKETHESQUARE return to the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin – USA Webpage
in Portland, USA – Read the plan of action. Fb event.
#OCCUPYBAYSTREET in Toronto, Canada – Fb event.
in Athens, Grece – Hellenic Stock Exchange Fb event. Also gathering in Syntagma square at 12:00 and then march to the Bank of Greece on Panepistimioy Avenue. Fb event. Web flyer here.
in Berlin, Germany – Occupy Börse Berlin Fb Event.
in Frankfurt, Germany – Occupy Frankfurter Börse Fb Event.
in Stuttgart, Germany – Occupy börsenstrasse Fb event.
in Lisboa, Portugal – Demonstration in front of Stock-Market headquarters. Fb event.
in Porto, Portugal – Demonstration in front of Stock-Market headquarters. Portugal – Fb event.
in Viena, Austria – Read the plan of action.
#BEURSPLEINBEZETTING in Amsterdam, Netherlands – Camping in the Exchange Market Square. Fb event. Preparation meeting (13.09.2011) link. Follow @YesWeCampNL
in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Demonstration in front of Stock Exchange Headquarters. FB event.
in Paris, Place de la Bourse, France. Fb event.
in Dublin, Ireland. Fb event.

Other actions for 17th September

in Barcelona, Spain – Forum and Barcelona Hub International Meting. International meeting of social organizers in order to set a plan for a global rally on 15th October. (15-18th September)
Paris, France - Marches from Greece, France, Spain, Italy, etc. will arrive to Paris and there will be a big demonstration there. Read more in Road to Brussels, The marches to Brussels and Paris Reelle Democratie
Italy – Marches to Rome starts. Follow it in fb.
Athens, Greece proposes to boicott the banks withdrawing money for 4 days, still not clear when do they start (decided on Syntagma assembly on September 5th)
Cambridge, UK – Workshops on the financial crisis. Flyer here.

http://antibanks.takethesquare.net/2011/08...7th-everywhere/

[amazed!]

Good to see this. I hope it is successful.

[André]

Occupy Wall Street - Day 7 (Police Brutality)

more than 80 arrested...

http://www.flickr.com/photos

[André]

Day 8, OCCUPY WALL STREET.

[rob balsamo]

Airplane pilots march on Wall Street

Hundreds of pilots from United/Continental showed up in full dress and made a show in support for their union during an ongoing labor dispute. They stood in an area on Broad Street, near Wall Street and the Stock Exchange

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/618949...in/photostream/

[SanderO]

I've said before that the only way to change this country is to get 10 million people to protest in DC and not move until the beltway crowd gets with the program for the people.
Boots on the ground... all around.

Thanks Pilots!

[Lights]

Good to see this. I hope it is successful.

So do I, amazed!

[Lights]

Airplane pilots march on Wall Street

Hundreds of pilots from United/Continental showed up in full dress and made a show in support for their union during an ongoing labor dispute. They stood in an area on Broad Street, near Wall Street and the Stock Exchange

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/618949...in/photostream/

Great to hear pilots are getting into this as well, Rob. Godspeed and thanks for standing with the protestors all you pilots over in New York.

[André]

Wall Street protesters march on NY police headquarters

http://www.msnbc.msn.com

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[André]

Wall Street protests spread to other cities

Protests inspired by "Occupy Wall Street" movement have emerged in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Members of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement have vowed to stay through winter in a park near New York's iconic financial district, where they are protesting issues including the 2008 bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment in the United States.

Protests inspired by New York's have emerged in other US cities in recent days, including Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

A group in Boston has taken on the tactics of New York's protesters and on Friday night set itself up in the city's Dewey Square. Activists remained camped out at what they called "the heart of the financial district" on Saturday.

"We are establishing our subsection of a national dialogue on finance reform and governance reform," Nadeem Mazen, an organiser with Occupy Boston, told Al Jazeera.

Mazen said that the Boston protest quickly drew a thousand people. "It shows that we're experienced and that we've all been independently thinking about what change we want to see. .. I think we're all very hungry for change."

The New York campaign is based in Zuccotti Park - formerly Liberty Plaza Park - just across from the World Trade Center site.

The movement has gained the support of five New York labour unions, as well as celebrities and academics such as Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, rapper Lupe Fiasco and the musical group Radiohead.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas

[DoYouEverWonder]

'Let us go!': About 400 arrested in Wall Street protest
Ant-Wall Street marchers block traffic lanes on Brooklyn Bridge, police say

Oct 1, 2011

NEW YORK — About 400 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 and witnesses 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.

"Approximately 400 were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway," a police spokesman told Reuters.

"Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Others locked arms and proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway. The latter were arrested," he added.

Both the walkway and Brooklyn-bound car lanes were shut to traffic, snarling traffic. Police reopened the bridge.

'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."

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.
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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.

MSNBC

[André]

United Steelworkers announce support for ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest

The United Steelworkers, North America’s largest industrial union, announced on Friday that it supported the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” protest that began in lower Manhattan and has slowly spread to other cities across the United States.

The protesters have pledged to occupy Wall Street until something is done about corporate greed and corporate influence on the U.S. government. They have been camped out in New York’s old Liberty Plaza since September 17.

“The United Steelworkers union stands in solidarity with and strongly supports Occupy Wall Street,” Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, said in a statement.

“The brave men and women, many of them young people without jobs, who have been demonstrating around-the-clock for nearly two weeks in New York City are speaking out for the many in our world. We are fed up with the corporate greed, corruption and arrogance that have inflicted pain on far too many for far too long.”

United Steelworkers has 850,000 members in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean.

The announcement comes after a number of labor unions and liberal groups said hey would throw their weight behind the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations. The United Federation of Teachers, 32BJ SEIU, 1199 SEIU, Workers United and Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 have said they will participate in the protest.

The Working Families Party, MoveOn.org, Make the Road New York, the Coalition for the Homeless, the Alliance for Quality Education, Community Voices Heard, United New York and Strong Economy For All also plan to support the demonstration.

TWU Local 100 president John Samuelson appeared on Current TV’s Countdown and explained that his union was making common cause with the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters because they are, “singing the same song and fighting the same battle that our union has fought for the last eighteen months.”

Many have criticized the movement for not having any clear purpose or goals, but Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald responded that most of those critiques were ludicrous.

“Does anyone really not know what the basic message is of this protest: that Wall Street is oozing corruption and criminality and its unrestrained political power — in the form of crony capitalism and ownership of political institutions — is destroying financial security for everyone else?” he wrote on Wednesday.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/01/unit...street-protest/

[Lights]

Another site for those interested is:

http://www.occupytogether.org/

[GroundPounder]

thanks for the link lights!

[onesliceshort]

Good to see old-fashioned street action again!

I hope the grassroots unions get their act together and stage a mass march to show support.