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gateley

(62,683 posts)
1. I can't watch, either. I was just @ Twitter and there are lots of tweets like this:
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:58 PM
Mar 2012

Anonymous ‏ @YourAnonNews Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
#OWS --> This is what a police state looks like. Arrests and police action happening now: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupymusician

gateley

(62,683 posts)
5. Good to see you, NYC_SKP!
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 11:07 PM
Mar 2012

Thanks to you and the others who are keeping this in the forefront. Doesn't seem to be getting much notice, and it seems the Police know the country/world isn't watching that closely any more. No pretense of trying to appear like they're NOT there to shut it down. Sigh.


gateley

(62,683 posts)
3. Norway seems to be more interested than America:
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 11:01 PM
Mar 2012

Occupy Oslo ‏ @OccupyOslo · Details
@OccupyWallStNYC us. The rest of the world. We hear you. #Americanspring #M17 #OWS

EDIT: I thought Oslo was in Sweden.

Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)
6. Do you really think that people are losing interest? I don't doubt it but I hope not :-(
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 12:01 AM
Mar 2012

I don't know what it takes to wake people up anymore... I was telling KoKo that I do think the current 2000's generation is more conservative than previous generations, although the New York Times way of "proving" this is to deride them for driving less and buying fewer homes in the suburbs, thereby proving that they have no ambition.

Yeah, that's the problem with America according to NYT, insufficient careerism

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
12. The NYT clearly hasn't figured out...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 09:00 PM
Mar 2012

that we can't afford houses in the suburbs of NYC...I lived in South Yonkers in a broom closet for $3000/mo. When I moved out, the building was going coop and my unit was being sold for $550,995. A half a million dollars for a 900ft^2 condo in the ghetto.

Of course I don't drive. $108/mo. for a subway pass or $20K for a car, $4/gal for gas and $1000/mo for insurance? That question is fucking easy.

Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)
7. Do you think it's possible to keep going back
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 12:08 AM
Mar 2012

In Chicago they had a monument to the police that kept getting messed up (because the Haymarket incident was actually a police riot that the media blamed on radicals) until they removed it entirely. In Scotland they had a monument to William Wallace that looked like Mel Gibson, the scots hated it and they had to put a fence around it and finally remove it. Now Occupy is all about positive change so that doesn't really apply. But I am wondering why it's not possible to convene around the bronze bull, is Zucotti the only park near Wall St?

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
8. Occupy LA - M17 - Police begin attacking protesters and charging them with batons
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 01:25 AM
Mar 2012

This happened this afternoon (Fire Walk With Me was there and passed on this link to Freedom's footage):

Date: 3/17/2012
Footage Courtesy Of: ustream.tv/occupyfreedomla

&feature=share

TBF

(34,318 posts)
9. 12 hrs ago on Facebook - Re-occupied
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 09:17 AM
Mar 2012

Occupy Wall St.
Zuccotti is Re-occupied. Spring has begun.
Unlike · · Share · 12 hours ago

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
10. UK "GLOBE": "Police & Occupy Wall Street protesters clash at New York park where Movement Began "
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 10:27 AM
Mar 2012

UK's "Globe" has good article and 10 Super Pix of the event."

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Police and Occupy Wall Street protesters clash at New York park where movement began six months ago

Protesters gathered at Zuccotti Park on six-month anniversary of movement
Dozens of people handcuffed and led out of park


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116661/Occupy-Wall-Street-protesters-clash-police-Zuccotti-Park-movement-began-6-months-ago.html#ixzz1pTwoBMGa

On the six-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, protesters swarmed its birthplace –Zuccotti Park – again sparking the cat-and-mouse clashes between New York City police officers and demonstrators.

The sweep of the park by police just before midnight capped a day of demonstrations and marching in lower Manhattan. There was no official word on the number of arrests but dozens of people were handcuffed and led out of the park.

Earlier in the day, 15 people were arrested and three officers suffered injuries, police said.

An unused public transit bus was brought in to cart away about a dozen demonstrators in plastic handcuffs.

-snip- (Michael Moore stopped by)

think it's great that this movement continues to grow,' Mr Moore said. 'I think the goals are clear. People are concerned that they have no control over their own democracy. They have no control over their own lives.

'This is the beginning. This park is sacred ground for millions across the country.'

As always, the protesters focused on a variety of concerns, but for Tom Hagan, his sights were on the giants of finance.

'Wall Street did some terrible things, especially Goldman Sachs, but all of them. Everyone from the banks to the rating agencies, they all knew they were doing wrong. ... But they did it anyway. Because the money was too big,' he said.

Dressed in an outfit that might have been more appropriate for the St. Patrick's Day parade, the 61-year-old salesman wore a green shamrock cap and carried a sign asking for saintly intervention: 'St. Patrick: Drive the snakes out of Wall Street.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116661/Occupy-Wall-Street-protesters-clash-police-Zuccotti-Park-movement-began-6-months-ago.html#ixzz1pTpVeYc5

starroute

(12,977 posts)
11. The best account I've found is from the Village Voice
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 11:50 AM
Mar 2012

Link is http://t.co/51JhqTJm

There's a compilation of accounts of police brutality at http://storify.com/megrobertson/essential-videos-pics-from-m17-at-zuccotti-park

Or you can also check the Twitter hashtag #M17 for stuff as it comes in -- lots of duplication to wade through, though. https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23m17?q=%23m17&

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