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From my earlier stay today at #occupywallstreet.
Vids for early tomorrow, promise <3
The way the NYPD is reacting to peaceful protesting, it seems they want this to turn into a riot..
Confirmed: More Than 1,000 Protesters Descend On The Very First Day of #takewallstreet
Demonstrators invoke Mideast rallies, call for end to corporate greed favoring rich
New York - Manhattan - More than 1,000 demonstrators descended on New York City’s Financial District on Saturday for what could be a days-long protest of what they said was corporate greed favoring the rich at the expense of ordinary people.
The rally, dubbed #OccupyWallStreet / #TakeWallStreet on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook where word was spread, spurred the New York Police Department to lock down Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall, local media reported.
Pictures posted on Twitter and elsewhere showed police and barricades around the famous bronze bull statue on lower Broadway.
from #takewallstreet now a worldwide trending topic on twitter.
Hundreds Of Protesters Descend To ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Hundreds of demonstrators took to The Streets of Manhattan’s Financial District on Saturday in a largely peaceful protest aimed at drawing attention to the role powerful financial interests played in wreaking havoc on America’s economy.
Modeled on the “Arab Spring” uprisings that swept through Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and other countries this year, Occupy Wall Street is a “leaderless resistance movement” orchestrated through Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools. The Twitter hashtags #OccupyWallStreet and #TakeWallStreet lit up Saturday with coordination messages and solidarity tweets. (See CNNMoney’s coverage in photos and tweets.)
Activist magazine Adbusters spearheaded the event, putting the call out two months ago for participants in a Sept. 17 demonstration in lower Manhattan. Protestors arranged to meet and discuss their goals at the iconic Wall Street Bull statue at noon, as well as at a “people’s assembly” at One Chase Manhattan Plaza at 3 p.m.
“The NYPD is aware of various protests and we have planned accordingly,” Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told CNN late Friday.
Early Saturday morning, police barricaded off Wall Street, erecting barriers around the bull statue that protestors had planned to make their rallying point. Protestors instead took to the surrounding streets, blocking traffic. By 2 p.m., nearly two dozen uniformed police officers surrounded the bull, while others worked to disperse the crowd.
#OccupyWallstreet: Our Mission
Is America Ripe for a Tahrir Moment?
On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand for radical and immediate change in a plurality of voices, following the example set by our Egyptian brothers and sisters in Tahrir Square.
The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America. It’s time that the people took back the streets to let Wall Street and this corrupt government know that CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE and that we demand democracy, not corporatocracy!
#OccupyWallstreet: Our Mission
Is America Ripe for a Tahrir Moment?
On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand for radical and immediate change in a plurality of voices, following the example set by our Egyptian brothers and sisters in Tahrir Square.
The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America. It’s time that the people took back the streets to let Wall Street and this corrupt government know that CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE and that we demand democracy, not corporatocracy!
#OccupyWallstreet: Our Mission
Is America Ripe for a Tahrir Moment?
On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand for radical and immediate change in a plurality of voices, following the example set by our Egyptian brothers and sisters in Tahrir Square.
The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America. It’s time that the people took back the streets to let Wall Street and this corrupt government know that CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE and that we demand democracy, not corporatocracy!
ADBUSTERS.
I am so for this. I am ready for no more loopholes in tax laws and for stock traders. I am ready for corporations to stop ruling America. I am ready to live on Wall Street until these people can see that I am a person, not their companies, and that it is me and my brothers and sisters that they hurt through their profits. I am ready for equality and peace.
A bit of profound strategic news to lift your sails: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET will now happen simultaneously on two continents!
“Inspired by the visceral potential of the Wall Street occupation, the Indignados of Spain just sent us word that on September 17th they too will set up camp outside the Madrid Stock Exchange. The surprise announcement, that their #TOMALABOLSA will join your #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, may embolden other cities as well. A rumor suggests the financial district of Paris may be next … or will it be Toronto’s Bay Street, Sydney’s Martin Place, or some yet to be chosen site in London?”
Then on October 6th another kind of encampment begins in Washington, DC.
With a bit of luck, and the right mix of nonviolence and tenacity, S17 just might cascade into a Tahrir Moment on an international scale - wouldn’t that be something?
We call on jammers across the world to occupy financial districts on September 17:
TOMALABOLSA in Madrid, Spain (Confirmed) -
OCCUPYFDSF in San Francisco, USA (Confirmed) -
OCCUPYBAYSTREET in Toronto, Canada -
OCCUPYCANARYWHARF in London, UK -
OCCUPYMARTINPLACE in Sydney, Australia -
OCCUPYBANKENVIERTEL in Frankfurt, Germany/
OCCUPYMARUNOUCHI in Tokyo, Japan/
#OccupyWallstreet: Our Mission
Is America Ripe for a Tahrir Moment?
On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand for radical and immediate change in a plurality of voices, following the example set by our Egyptian brothers and sisters in Tahrir Square.
The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America. It’s time that the people took back the streets to let Wall Street and this corrupt government know that CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE and that we demand democracy, not corporatocracy!
