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More than 700 arrested in Wall Street protest

A police officer leans over to talk to a protester after hundreds were arrested during protest


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday evening after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.

The arrests took place when a large group of marchers, participating in a second week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement, broke off from others on the bridge's pedestrian walkway and headed across the Brooklyn-bound lanes.

Police officers reach into a crowd of protesters to make an arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge.

"Over 700 summonses and desk appearance tickets have been issued in connection with a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway, and that if they took roadway they would be arrested," a police spokesman said.

"Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Others proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway and were. The bridge was re-opened to traffic at 8:05 p.m. (0005 GMT Sunday)."

Most of those who were arrested were taken into custody off the bridge, issued summonses and released.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene on the famous suspension bridge as a sea of police officers surrounded the protesters using orange mesh netting.

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 march started about 3:30 p.m. 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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In addition to what they view as excessive force and unfair treatment of minorities, including Muslims, the movement is also protesting against home foreclosures, high unemployment and the 2008 bailouts.

Filmmaker Michael Moore and actress Susan Sarandon have stopped by the protesters' camp, which is plastered with posters with anti-Wall Street slogans and has a kitchen and library, to offer their support.

Friday evening, more than 1,000 demonstrators, including representatives of labor organizations, held a peaceful march to police headquarters a few blocks north of City Hall to protest what they said was a heavy-handed police response the previous week. No arrests were reported.

A week ago, police arrested about 80 members of Occupy Wall Street near the Union Square shopping district as the marchers swarmed onto oncoming traffic.

A police commander doused a handful of women with pepper spray in an incident captured on video and spread via the Internet, galvanizing the loosely organized protest movement.

The group has gained support among some union members. The United Federation of Teachers and the Transport Workers Union Local 100, which has 38,000 members, are among those pledging solidarity.

The unions could provide important organizational and financial support for the largely leaderless movement.

Similar protests are sprouting in other cities, including Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.

(Reporting by Ray Sanchez; editing by Philip Barbara and Bill Trott)

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Anti-Wall Street protests spread nationwide
By CHRIS HAWLEY - Associated Press | AP – Mon, Oct 3, 2011..

..NEW YORK (AP) — Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed.

In Manhattan, hundreds of protesters dressed as corporate zombies in white face paint lurched past the New York Stock Exchange clutching fistfuls of fake money. In Chicago, demonstrators pounded drums in the city's financial district. Others pitched tents or waved protest signs at passing cars in Boston, St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.

The arrests of 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend galvanized a slice of discontented America, from college students worried about their job prospects to middle-age workers who have been recently laid off.

Some protesters likened themselves to the tea party movement — but with a liberal bent — or to the Arab Spring demonstrators who brought down their rulers in the Middle East.

"I've felt this way for a long time. I've really just kind of been waiting for a movement to come along that I thought would last and have some resonation within the community," said Steven Harris, a laid-off truck driver in Kansas City.

Harris and about 20 other people were camped out in a park across the street from the Kansas City Federal Reserve building, their site strewn with sleeping bags, clothes and handmade signs. Some passing drivers honked in support.

The Occupy Wall Street protests started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, hundreds have set up camp in a park nearby and have become increasingly organized, lining up medical aid and legal help and printing their own newspaper, the Occupied Wall Street Journal.

About 100 demonstrators were arrested on Sept. 24 and some were pepper-sprayed. On Saturday police arrested 700 on charges of disorderly conduct and blocking a public street as they tried to march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Police said they took five more protesters into custody on Monday, though it was unclear whether they had been charged with any crime.

Wiljago Cook, of Oakland, Calif., who joined the New York protest on the first day, said she was shocked by the arrests.

"Exposing police brutality wasn't even really on my agenda, but my eyes have been opened," she said. She vowed to stay in New York "as long as it seems useful."

City bus drivers sued the New York Police Department on Monday for commandeering their buses and making them drive to the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday to pick up detained protesters.

"We're down with these protesters. We support the notion that rich folk are not paying their fair share," said Transport Workers Union President John Samuelsen. "Our bus operators are not going to be pressed into service to arrest protesters anywhere."

The city's Law Department said the NYPD's actions were proper.

On Monday, the zombies stayed on the sidewalks as they wound through Manhattan's financial district chanting, "How to fix the deficit: End the war, tax the rich!" They lurched along with their arms in front of them. Some yelled, "I smell money!"

Reaction was mixed from passers-by.

Roland Klingman, who works in the financial industry and was wearing a suit as he walked through a raucous crowd of protesters, said he could sympathize with the anti-Wall Street message.

"I don't think it's directed personally at everyone who works down here," Klingman said. "If they believe everyone down here contributes to policy decisions, it's a serious misunderstanding."

Another man in a suit yelled at the protesters, "Go back to work!" He declined to be interviewed.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who made his fortune as a corporate executive, has said the demonstrators are making a mistake by targeting Wall Street.

"The protesters are protesting against people who make $40- or $50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That's the bottom line. Those are the people who work on Wall Street or in the finance sector," Bloomberg said in a radio interview Friday.

Some protesters planned to travel to other cities to organize similar events.

John Hildebrand, a protester in New York from Norman, Okla., hoped to mount a protest there after returning home Tuesday. Julie Levine, a protester in Los Angeles, planned to go to Washington on Thursday.

Websites and Facebook pages with names like Occupy Boston and Occupy Philadelphia have also sprung up to plan the demonstrations.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched from a tent city on a grassy plot in downtown Boston to the Statehouse to call for an end of corporate influence of government.

"Our beautiful system of American checks and balances has been thoroughly trashed by the influence of banks and big finance that have made it impossible for the people to speak," said protester Marisa Engerstrom, of Somerville, Mass., a Harvard doctoral student.

The Boston demonstrators decorated their tents with hand-written signs reading, "Fight the rich, not their wars" and "Human need, not corporate greed."

Some stood on the sidewalk holding up signs, engaging in debate with passers-by and waving at honking cars. One man yelled "Go home!" from his truck. Another man made an obscene gesture.

"We lean left, but there have been tea party people stopping by here who have said, 'Hey, we like what you're doing,'" said Jason Potteiger, a media coordinator for the Boston protesters.

In Chicago, protesters beat drums on the corner near the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In Los Angeles, demonstrators hoping to get TV coverage gathered in front of the courthouse where Michael Jackson's doctor is on trial on manslaughter charges.

Protesters in St. Louis stood on a street corner a few blocks from the shimmering Gateway Arch, carrying signs that read, "How Did The Cat Get So Fat?," ''You're a Pawn in Their Game" and "We Want The Sacks Of Gold Goldman Sachs Stole From Us."

"Money talks, and it seems like money has all the power," said Apollonia Childs. "I don't want to see any homeless people on the streets, and I don't want to see a veteran or elderly people struggle. We all should have our fair share. We all vote, pay taxes. Tax the rich."

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Verena Dobnik, Karen Matthews, Cristian Salazar and Jennifer Peltz in New York; Jim Suhr in St. Louis; David Sharp in Portland, Maine; Mark Pratt in Boston; Patrick Walters in Philadelphia; Bill Draper in Kansas City, Mo.; Carla K. Johnson in Chicago, and Christina Hoag and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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Atlanta Protests
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Huntington West Virgina Protests
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Philadelphia
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Maine
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North Carolina
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South Carolina
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Indiana
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San Diego Protest
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Chicago
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Tennessee
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Washington DC
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Alabama
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New Jersey
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Oklahoma
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Las Vegas
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Montana
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Connecticut
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Arizona
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Cleveland Ohio
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Los Angeles
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Virginia
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Boston
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Charelston West Virginia
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Canada
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Arkansas
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Florida
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Washington (State) Seattle
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Texas
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Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protest wear Guy Fawkes masks in Zuccotti Park in New York, on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. The growing protest over class and wealth is entering its fourth week. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton)...

"The Times They Are A-Changin..."

 

[suzynyc]

So proud this group was founded in my city (though I'm a little torn about what they are trying to do). Show those tea partiers how it's done!

 

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

I guess people are so crazy when it comes to wall street in ny & some other cites in dffrient states & I can see that people dressed in zombles.

 

[Severus Snape]

I wonder if anything will actually change. A friend of a friend of mine is down there, and he said that the police threatened to start arresting more people. It seems very tense.

With that said:

 

[Krshna28]

The problem is that the republicans don't give a damn about anybody but themselves!!!!!


And the republicans pretty much run the USA!!!

 

[Autumn II]

Occupy protests spread to cities around the world
By Faith Karimi, CNN
updated 10:58 AM EST, Sat October 15, 2011

On Saturday, October 15, protesters in Hong Kong participate in the worldwide demonstrations inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement. United for Global Change, the central site for the international movement, said 951 cities in 82 countries will take part in the rallies. On Saturday, October 15, protesters in Hong Kong participate in the worldwide demonstrations inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement. United for Global Change, the central site for the international movement, said 951 cities in 82 countries will take part in the rallies.


(CNN) -- Massive crowds across the globe rallied against corporate power Saturday as the Occupy Wall Street movement spilled onto the streets in Europe, Asia and Australia.

"We're giving people a real voice against a government that just ignored us," said Peter Vaughn, a protester in London, reflecting the mood of many in the crowd. People are intent on changing financial institutions that have "gambled away our money," he added.

"We've very much been inspired in London by what's been happening on Wall Street and all across America," Vaughn said.

"If we are here, it's also to say that we can't have a dialogue with you," another protester said in Belleville, France, referring to the country's leaders.

"You are not listening to us, whatever we do, however we vote, however we demonstrate. It does not give any result. Quite the opposite, as poverty and austerity plans continue. So we can't go on like this so we are getting out and showing ourselves," he said.

United for Global Change -- the central site for the movement organizing worldwide protests -- said 951 cities in 82 countries were to take part in the demonstrations after online organizers called for a worldwide rally. Protesters marched, listened to speeches, and displayed banners reading anti-corporate slogans, including the now ubiquitous "we are the 99%."

Vandalism erupted in Rome, where witnesses saw car fires and broken windows at shops and a bank at the scene of the Rome demonstration, where many thousands turned and faced a large police presence.

Still, the demonstrations across the world were peaceful overall.

In London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke to demonstrators.

A few hundred people gathered in Hong Kong.

"We should not let the banks get away with being big bullies," said retired businessman Wong Chi Keung.

Debbie Chen works for a group protesting against Apple's treatment of its workers in China and what she calls its "greed."

"As the world's most valuable company they earn the lion's share while the workers on the production line earn only 1% of the selling price of an iPhone. We hope there can be more even distribution of profits," she said.

In Japan, about 200 people marched through Tokyo carrying various signs, including "No More Nukes and "Free Tibet." The crowd included children jumping and skipping behind the adults. Some protesters wore costumes -- including a giant panda.

"I'm here because young Japanese people are suffering for losing their jobs, but not many speak out their issue to the public," said Kesao Murakami. "I really want to young people appeal forcefully to the public saying, 'We are in trouble.' "

In South Korea, Arthur Fragoso rallied with a small group outside a bank in Seoul. He said his protest is a solidarity move with the Occupy movement and not a reflection of any discontent against his government.

"We are protesting mostly for economic issues worldwide," he said. "We need to come up with ideas to solve the world problems."

In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, about two dozen people -- some wearing masks -- gathered near the U.S. Embassy.

"We wanted to show that the American regime, its system of imperialism needs to be destroyed," said Rudi Daman, leader of the International League of Peoples' Struggle.

The group urged its chapters to stage a global day of action against "imperialist plunder, repression and war."

Australian cities of Melbourne and Sydney joined rallies against "corporate greed" as protesters aligned themselves with the global movement.

"Our protests are to show our solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and also protest various problems -- from indigenous issues in this country to government problems," said Alex Gard, one of the Melbourne organizers. "We know we have it better than the protesters in the States ... but there are still problems in this country."

Organizers urged protesters to bring sleeping bags and other soft items to sleep on.

"I've heard people say they plan to be there for days, even months," Gard said.

Organizers worldwide started social media pages on Facebook and Twitter devoted to "October 15" &#8212; #O15 on Twitter &#8212; urging protesters to join the global call for protests.

The worldwide movement is galvanized by the Occupy Wall Street movement started last month as a backlash against the economy and what demonstrators say is an out-of-touch corporate, financial and political elite.

Occupy Wall Street organizers say they are inspired by the Arab Spring that led to the toppling of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt.

The founding movement in the United States has spread to other major cities in the nation.

http://www.cnn.com/2....html?hpt=hp_t2

 

[Autumn II]

Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011

As in New York, protesters use chance to attack wide list of issues from nuclear energy to trade
Hundreds turn out to 'Occupy Tokyo'

By TAKAHIRO FUKADA
Staff writer

The Occupy Wall Street protests spreading across the United States landed in Tokyo on Saturday, as hundreds of people gathered to protest against corporate greed and social inequality.

In addition to decrying the widening wealth gap between the nation's haves and have-nots, demonstrators spoke out on a variety of unrelated topics ranging from nuclear power to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a free-trade pact promoted by the U.S.

Marching behind a large "Occupy Tokyo" banner, about 300 protesters proceeded to the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co., owner of the radiation-leaking Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. "Dissolve Tepco," "Stop nuclear power plants," they chanted.

The various signs, written in both Japanese and English, highlighted some of the issues apparently agitating the public.
"Let's firmly oppose the TPP that only makes 1 percent (of the population) happy," "No to Radioactivity," "The 1 percent who are stained with their greed for profits should disappear for the sake of the world's happiness," the Japanese signs read.
One of the organizers, Mie Yasuda, said many people in Tokyo are indignant about the way Tepco and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry are handling the nuclear disaster.

Nevertheless, she left the demands to the demonstrators.

"It is fine (to protest about) any absurdity in the world that angers you," she said Friday.
Kazuko Hirano, an 80-year-old pensioner from Setagaya Ward, said she decided to participate because she strongly believes Japan should eliminate nuclear plants.

"(I joined to get) as many people as possible angry about nuclear power plants and to make demands to the state" to halt them, she said.

Masashi Hayasaki, an employee from Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, decided to show up because he is concerned about the TPP talks.

Joining the free-trade negotiations will see the country "swallowed by global capitalism" and "destroy Japanese tradition and culture," he said.

"I just want to tell pedestrians not to be indifferent" to the TPP and nuclear power plants, he said.
Passers-by had mixed feelings about the protests.

"Although it would be good if (nuclear power plants) did not exist, it is impossible to make them disappear immediately," said a 23-year-old employee from Kawasaki who was shopping in the area.

The man, who would only give his last name, Azuma, said one of the key issues that needs to be resolved is the cost of fully making the conversion from nuclear power to wind, thermal and other renewable forms of energy.

Another man from Saitama, who came to see what the protest was like, said, "We should consider" whether to hold onto nuclear power plants.

"Japan is peaceful since people can speak with various opinions," said the man, 52, who declined to be named.

A separate Occupy Tokyo event was also held in the Roppongi district.

http://search.japant...20111015x1.html

 

[Severus Snape]

NYPD are fine guys...NOT. As a YouTube poster so finely put it:

"Do the cops realize that the people? they are happily arresting now are protesting against the very institutionalized theft that will strip them of their pensions when they try to retire?" ~GeneralGrove

 

[Autumn II]

NYPD are fine guys...NOT. As a YouTube poster so finely put it:

"Do the cops realize that the people? they are happily arresting now are protesting against the very institutionalized theft that will strip them of their pensions when they try to retire?" ~GeneralGrove

And THERE you have it!

 

[Severus Snape]

People ARRESTED for trying to close their own bank accounts @ CitiBank:





Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has a few words to say:

 

[suzynyc]

I'm about to close my accounts at Citibank and Chase. They are beginning to charge outrageous monthly fees for those who don't maintain a to me unreasonable balance in their basic checking/savings. I'm so out of there. So tired of these greedy corporations sticking it to the little guy.

 

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

Yeah I kown people are starting to get carzy in all over the world! :black_eye:

 

[Severus Snape]

I'm about to close my accounts at Citibank and Chase. They are beginning to charge outrageous monthly fees for those who don't maintain a to me unreasonable balance in their basic checking/savings. I'm so out of there. So tired of these greedy corporations sticking it to the little guy.

Do it. Show them you are not going to comply with their ridiculous standards. I bank locally.

 

[CaptainEoLove85]

I'm about to close my accounts at Citibank and Chase. They are beginning to charge outrageous monthly fees for those who don't maintain a to me unreasonable balance in their basic checking/savings. I'm so out of there. So tired of these greedy corporations sticking it to the little guy.

Yep, just closed my account for this reason. Going to try a credit union instead. It's great that the movement's gone global now.

 

[Autumn II]

Do it. Show them you are not going to comply with their ridiculous standards. I bank locally.

As do I. A credit-union is also a good option. Unfortunately, the mortgage on my house was sold to Chase! WITHOUT my consent (yes, they CAN do that).

 

[suzynyc]

Do it. Show them you are not going to comply with their ridiculous standards. I bank locally.

Oh geez, I just realized when I close my accounts I will have to redeem my Citbank rewards points which are now over 13,000 heh. Got to remain strong and join the movement, heh.

 

[Severus Snape]

^I'm not familiar with Citibank, what are reward points and how do you redeem them? Perhaps there is something you need to tend to financially at this moment, that you can use the points for? Did you have anything in mind to use them for in the future?

 

[suzynyc]

^I'm not familiar with Citibank, what are reward points and how do you redeem them? Perhaps there is something you need to tend to financially at this moment, that you can use the points for? Did you have anything in mind to use them for in the future?

Citibank awards "Thank You" points whenever customers use their citbank debit or credit cards for purchases or maintain checking accounts plus any linked accounts. Customers can then redeem those rewards points for merchandise which can be ordered from a special website by Citibank. I have accumulated a little over 13000 points. I'll have to check the rules but I hope if I close my accounts I don't have to lose those points. I didn't have anything specific in mind to use them for but I guess I will have to think of something. I do need a new paper shredder, hehe.

 

[souldreamer7]

Re: The Riots Getting Closer as Protests Wall Street lead Nationwide USA Occuppy Global*



people speak...and so does children..

 

[Severus Snape]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/19/naomi-wolf-arrest-occupy-wall-street

Last night I was arrested in my home town, outside an event to which I had been invited, for standing lawfully on the sidewalk in an evening gown.

Let me explain; my partner and I were attending an event for the Huffington Post, for which I often write: Game Changers 2011, in a venue space on Hudson Street. As we entered the space, we saw that about 200 Occupy Wall Street protesters were peacefully assembled and were chanting. They wanted to address Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was going to be arriving at the event. They were using a technique that has become known as "the human mic" &#8211; by which the crowd laboriously repeats every word the speaker says &#8211; since they had been told that using real megaphones was illegal.

In my book Give Me Liberty, a blueprint for how to open up a closing civil society, I have a chapter on permits &#8211; which is a crucial subject to understand for anyone involved in protest in the US. In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of "overpermiticisation" &#8211; requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment. One of these made-up permit requirements, which are not transparent or accountable, is the megaphone restriction.

So I informed the group on Hudson Street that they had a first amendment right to use a megaphone and that the National Lawyers' Guild should appeal the issue if they got arrested. And I repeated the words of the first amendment, which the crowd repeated.

Then my partner suggested that I ask the group for their list of demands. Since we would be inside, we thought it would be helpful to take their list into the event and if I had a chance to talk with the governor I could pass the list on. That is how a democracy works, right? The people have the right to address their representatives.

We went inside, chatted with our friends, but needed to leave before the governor had arrived. I decided I would present their list to his office in the morning and write about the response. On our exit, I saw that the protesters had been cordoned off by a now-massive phalanx of NYPD cops and pinned against the far side of the street &#8211; far away from the event they sought to address.

I went up and asked them why. They replied that they had been informed that the Huffington Post event had a permit that forbade them to use the sidewalk. I knew from my investigative reporting on NYC permits that this was impossible: a private entity cannot lease the public sidewalks; even film crews must allow pedestrian traffic. I asked the police for clarification &#8211; no response.

I went over to the sidewalk at issue and identified myself as a NYC citizen and a reporter, and asked to see the permit in question or to locate the source on the police or event side that claimed it forbade citizen access to a public sidewalk. Finally a tall man, who seemed to be with the event, confessed that while it did have a permit, the permit did allow for protest so long as we did not block pedestrian passage.

I thanked him, returned to the protesters, and said: "The permit allows us to walk on the other side of the street if we don't block access. I am now going to walk on the public sidewalk and not block it. It is legal to do so. Please join me if you wish." My partner and I then returned to the event-side sidewalk and began to walk peacefully arm in arm, while about 30 or 40 people walked with us in single file, not blocking access.

Then a phalanx of perhaps 40 white-shirted senior offices descended out of seemingly nowhere and, with a megaphone (which was supposedly illegal for citizens to use), one said: "You are unlawfully creating a disruption. You are ordered to disperse." I approached him peacefully, slowly, gently and respectfully and said: "I am confused. I was told that the permit in question allows us to walk if we don't block pedestrian access and as you see we are complying with the permit."


YouTube footage of Naomi Klein being arrested
He gave me a look of pure hate. "Are you going to back down?" he shouted. I stood, immobilised, for a moment. "Are you getting out of my way?" I did not even make a conscious decision not to "fall back" &#8211; I simply couldn't even will myself to do so, because I knew that he was not giving a lawful order and that if I stepped aside it would be not because of the law, which I was following, but as a capitulation to sheer force. In that moment's hesitation, he said, "OK," gestured, and my partner and I were surrounded by about 20 officers who pulled our hands behind our backs and cuffed us with plastic handcuffs.

We were taken in a van to the seventh precinct &#8211; the scary part about that is that the protesters and lawyers marched to the first precinct, which handles Hudson Street, but in the van the police got the message to avoid them by rerouting me. I understood later that the protesters were lied to about our whereabouts, which seemed to me to be a trickle-down of the Bush-era detention practice of unaccountable detentions.

The officers who had us in custody were very courteous, and several expressed sympathy for the movements' aims. Nonetheless, my partner and I had our possessions taken from us, our ID copied, and we were placed in separate cells for about half an hour. It was clear that by then the police knew there was scrutiny of this arrest so they handled us with great courtesy, but my phone was taken and for half an hour I was in a faeces- or blood-smeared cell, thinking at that moment the only thing that separates civil societies from barbaric states is the rule of law &#8211; that finds the prisoner, and holds the arresting officers and courts accountable.

Another scary outcome I discovered is that, when the protesters marched to the first precinct, the whole of Erickson Street was cordoned off &#8211; "frozen" they were told, "by Homeland Security". Obviously if DHS now has powers to simply take over a New York City street because of an arrest for peaceable conduct by a middle-aged writer in an evening gown, we have entered a stage of the closing of America, which is a serious departure from our days as a free republic in which municipalities are governed by police forces.

The police are now telling my supporters that the permit in question gave the event managers "control of the sidewalks". I have asked to see the permit but still haven't been provided with it &#8211; if such a category now exists, I have never heard of it; that, too, is a serious blow to an open civil society. What did I take away? Just that, unfortunately, my partner and I became exhibit A in a process that I have been warning Americans about since 2007: first they come for the "other" &#8211; the "terrorist", the brown person, the Muslim, the outsider; then they come for you &#8211; while you are standing on a sidewalk in evening dress, obeying the law.

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[suzynyc]

MOVE YOUR MONEY PLEDGE:

http://www.rebuildthedream.com/move-your-money/

 

[Ben]

I am extremely proud of all the people out there. So glad to see people waking up and expressing their anger instead of going through life hopeless and even worse, blasé. I have met so many accepting those unfair rules because they think there's no other choice. It's time to reinvent this crappy world, to change for something radically different. There's more than republicans or democrats, capitalism or socialism, like they want us to believe.

And btw, as proud as I am of the awakening of the american people, give to Cesar what belongs to Cesar : it all started in Spain. The kudos go to the Indignados of Madrid. Not that it matters in the end. But still...

 

[Severus Snape]

^Anonymous is responsible for a lot of this. Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar. This originated on the Internet.

I actually went up to New York this Friday, and I was so proud to see them all still occupying and staying strong. I wish I could join them, but I am not local to the city (I agreed to chaperone for a field trip, thus how I ended up there), and I'm supposed to be at school anyway...

When we passed them by, some of the parents of the kids on the trip said some nasty things about the occupiers, and I schooled them, telling them they too were slaves to the capitalist schwein known as the 1%, and that they should be thankful these people are giving up their time and energy to send a message that corruption will not be tolerated--a message which, if heeded, will positively affect not only those who compose OWS, but the rest of the 99% as well.

 

[Ben]

Give to anonymous what belongs to anonymous. lol It's true it started online but I think it's a bolder step to take it to the streets.
It's sad you have to teach people about what these demonstrations are about. I've had heated conversations with a lot of people, many young, who not only had no idea what this was about, but in the end turned out to have lost all hope, or urge to change the world. I thought it was so sad, that people so young are so blasé.