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So can different people stay in the park in shifts without camping?
What if they didn't have tents Darrin?
Do they need to be standing up at all times? Is lying down permitted? Where is your line drawn?
So can different people stay in the park in shifts without camping?
camping
The article I read said the police were walking around in the park all night waking people up that were trying to sleep on the benches.
They must be violent sleepers.
can anyone answer this? are people still gathering in as great of numbers as when all this started or has it sort of fizzled out?
They are making a big push in new York today blocking streets in the business section and are planning to "occupy" the subway this afternoon. If they were REALLY smart they would put on suits and occupy the cars and not the platforms...and just ride all afternoon/evening and not get off...If nobody gets off there is no room for anyone to get on thus stranding hundreds of thousands of commuters downtown...
I like how its "obsessing" unless the OP makes a thread about it. Laughable.
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That's actually a really good idea. They'd probably be kicked off by the Transportation Authority, but I'm assuming it would be somewhat hard to do without resorting to a legal bag of tricks.
They would be scared less that they would accidentally kick off a real banker trying to get home.
If they paid to ride the subway there'd be no reason to kick them off. No "bag of tricks" needed. They'd just have to be civil about it. Now that will be more of a "bag of tricks"
http://occupywallst.org/article/watc...hut-down-live/
Thousands upon thousands of people marching downtown right now.
Nothing will happen, beyond this very impressive street theatre, until the 99% are presented with candidates who run on anti-1%/pro-99% platforms, get elected by the 1000s in national and state legislatures, pass laws and regulations the "take our country back".
I'm afraid that the 1% will always own enough of a well-paid corrupt minority of legislators to block real reform, eg, reins ute Glass-Steagall, etc.
If OWS protestors paid for tickets to ride the subway, and continued to stay on throughout the day for, say, a week, do you really think the Mayor wouldn't try to crack down and implement some law to kick them off?
How can the rest of them public access it when it is full of the same people?
they complain about the 1%, but in this case, they are the 1% by staying in place.
Private security goon:
Security Guard at Zuccotti: ‘Your Fly’s Open, got’
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item...ggot_20111117/
Apparently, Bloomberg thinks union members aren't New Yorkers...but surprise, they are part of the 99%.....
Bloomberg: Unions hijacked Occupy protest
By MJ LEE | 11/18/11 12:15 PM EST
PoliticoNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested Friday that unions took over the Occupy Wall Street protest yesterday.
“A vast percentage of the people were union members protesting – some private unions and then some municipal unions – and they had you know, organized signs and leadership and that sort of thing,” Bloomberg said on WOR radio station Friday. “So it really wasn’t the protesters that have been in Zuccotti Park or that you see around the country.”
Bloomberg added, “It was just an opportunity for a bunch of unions to complain or to protest or whatever they want to do.”
The mayor warned that some of those union members, especially the municipal union members — should “step back” and realize that their salaries depend on the city’s ability to attract companies, investors and people that pay taxes.
$850K to slime and slander OWS
GOP Lobbying Group Develops Plan to Take On OWS With "Hit Job"
A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program “Up w/ Chris Hayes.
”The proposal was written on the letterhead of the lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford and addressed to one of CLGC’s clients, the American Bankers Association.CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the protests and allied politicians. The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans instead.
According to the memo, if Democrats embrace OWS, “This would mean more than just short-term political discomfort for Wall Street. … It has the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bullseye.”
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews...22/#paragraph3
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While bag lawyer s will do anything for money, spending $850K and perhaps more to follow could mean the 1% is actually getting just a little bit worried, but not much, they know they own (enough) legislators totally at all levels. The 1% countenances absolutely no resistance. All Your Country Belong To Us.
It's a RollerBall/Robocop world now. UCA is much more powerful than govt, UCA makes, and enforces, the laws.
More on Police Departments' Collusion in Defense of 1%: Who's the Organization Coordinating Those Crackdown Calls?
...a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs to advise them on policing matters and discuss response to the Occupy movement. The group has distributed a recently published guide on policing political events....
The coordination of political crackdowns on the Occupy movement has been conducted behind closed doors, with city officials and PERF refusing to say how many cities participated in the conference calls and the exact nature of the discussions. Reports of at least a dozen cities and some indication of as many as 40 accepting PERF advice and/or strategic do ents include San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Portland [Oregon], Oakland, Atlanta, and Washington DC....PERF coordinated a November 10 conference call with city police chiefs across the country – and many of these cities undertook crackdowns shortly afterward.
We can take an educated guess at "the exact nature of the discussions" by looking at the leadership of the Police Executive Research Forum:
PERF’s current and former directors read as a who's who of police chiefs involved in crackdowns on anti-globalization and political convention protesters resulting in thousands of arrests, hundreds of injuries, and millions of dollars paid out in police brutality and wrongful arrest lawsuits.
These current and former U.S. police chiefs -- along with top ranking police union officials and representatives from Canadian and British police -- have been marketing to municipal police forces and politicians their joint experiences as specialists on policing mass demonstrations.
Chairing PERF's board of directors is Philadelphia Police Commissioner and former Washington D.C. Metro Police Chief Charles Ramsey, who was responsible for coordinating the police response to protests against international banking ins utions including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Those protests, and Ramsey's response to massive anti-war demonstrations in Washington DC in the lead up the the Iraq War, often resulted in preemptive mass arrest of participants that were later deemed to be uncons utional.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews...ls/#paragraph3
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So we have a professional consulting group specializing in authoritarian crushing of dissent by Human-Americans.
Blocking Traffic good now.
“The cars were blocking one of our hospitals, so an ambulance literally wasn’t able to get into the bay for ten minutes,” said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose statewide stay-at-home order provoked the ire of many right-wingers and Trump supporters. The order banned residents from traveling to second homes, closed non-essential businesses, and limited outdoor activities in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michig...ial-distancing
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