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occupy wall st
SPREAD THR WORD
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:18 pm |
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MovieDude
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Re: occupy wall st
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:38 pm |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Re: occupy wall st
This is infuriating
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Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:28 pm |
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snack
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Re: occupy wall st
lol like 6 of my friends were arrested today but its cool bc bankers are safe ha ha conveninet! http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/ ... /ny-13.htm
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Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:05 am |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Re: occupy wall st
So much for this so-called left-wing media.
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Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:57 am |
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Argos
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Re: occupy wall st
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Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:42 am |
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Tyler
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Re: occupy wall st
I'm going next Saturday.
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Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:34 pm |
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snack
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Re: occupy wall st
an account Quote: My friend and I arrived at the march on Wall Street around 3 pm. We originally entered the pedestrian side of the Brooklyn Bridge. As such, we saw that the first people leading the protest were in fact the police. They were the ones leading the protestors onto the bridge. By this point the car lanes were still running. Then as more of the march entered the bridge, cops started setting up cones to divide the car lanes from the pedestrians. Since there was more space for people on the car lanes (once again, the cops had divided the cars from the people themselves by putting orange cones along the lines) the protestors started calling out to those on the pedestrian side to hop over and walk with them. Many people were crossing over, so we joined too. It was loud and crazy.
I don’t know when it happened, but all of sudden I saw there were no more cars with us on the bridge. People kept on marching. When we got to the middle of the bridge, we were all suddenly stopped. We were told that the police were preventing us from going to Brooklyn, but to stay put. The protestors kept on saying to remain calm and to not push. They would tell us to sit down so no one could get trampled if people started to push. But we felt more and more crammed. By this point, people had already tried to start going back to Manhattan (though some people in the crowd were preventing them from doing so worried it would cause a stampede and lead to trampling—we were that crammed!)
Other people had begun to climb the rails from the car lane side of the bridge to up to the pedestrian side, but we thought that would be too dangerous, and we were already too far away from the pedestrian side. Then people began to yell, “Let us go,” but there was no movement. I would say we were held in that situation for about an hour or more. Protestors were trying to communicate to the police, the police were not saying anything, and we were just being left on the bridge.
Then we began to hear that they were conducting arrests, but we thought it was ridiculous that they could arrest the entire march. (I later found out on the subway ride back that the police had divided the protestors already on the bridge from those still trying to get on the bridge). So we thought they might arrest the most important people at the front and then let the others go. Then people started to say they saw giant buses that said “Police” arriving on either side of the bridge. The police kept on corraling us, while people chanted, “We cannot breathe” and “We are suffocating.”
When the buses arrived, some people began voluntarily moving toward them, to let others have breathing space. Throughout this whole time we, were could not believe the police were doing this to us—there were 40-year-old dads, moms, teachers, and even kids that were only 7 and 10 years old in that crowd. My friend and I kept on trying to go back towards Manhattan because we had just heard there were arrests on the Brooklyn side, and still had not realized that there were also police buses on the Manhattan side. When we got to the Manhattan entrance, we saw that the police were dividing the protestors by gender and arresting about five at a time. They put plastic cuffs on each protester and sent them to the buses. Slowly but surely, they were arresting everybody.
While waiting to be arrested, I asked the office what would happen and he said that I would probably be able to go, and my friend would most likely just get be processed and charged with a “blocking traffic” citation. He even joked that the luckiest people were the ones that had been arrested first, since they were probably all out by now. My friend was arrested, and I just waited on the bridge. Eventually they told me and another girl who claimed she had gotten trapped in the protest to just go home, so I did.
I met another protestor on the subway back to Columbia, and he said that he had been one of the people in the back of the march. He explained that the police had been allowing people on the bridge, until they stopped us half-way through. Then they divided the group already on the bridge from the group still in Manhattan, leaving about one foot of space between the two groups. The people still in Manhattan were told they could not get on the bridge. Then corralled those of us on the bridge (about 400 people) and brought buses on both sides to take out the arrested.
I saw no coverage from big media, though everyone was of course taking pictures and videos. And just for the record, I never heard anyone from the police warn us that we would be arrested if we continued in the car lane section of the bridge. Never. tl;dr
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Re: occupy wall st
That's why you've got to read the Guardian to follow up on this story.
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Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:33 am |
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snack
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Re: occupy wall st
good argument
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:06 am |
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Tyler
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Re: occupy wall st
^A week ago you may have been right. They're organizing now.
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:31 am |
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Tyler
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Re: occupy wall st
There's points you can make against a protest in particular, protesting in general and protesters, but I'm not really sure what else you'd expect. Youthful civic engagement has been idle for decades, maybe this is a sign of a sea change.
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:28 pm |
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MovieDude
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Re: occupy wall st
Yo Magnus when did you become such a tool?
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:51 pm |
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Tyler
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Re: occupy wall st
I was there.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:44 am |
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: occupy wall st
Nice op-ed piece by Paul Krugman in yesterday's NY Times... Panic of the Plutocrats
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Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:24 pm |
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: occupy wall st
Wouldn't it be impressive to see the Tea Party join ranks with Occupy Wall Street?
That'd put the fear of God into our corporate rulers!
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Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:41 pm |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Re: occupy wall st
Bradley Witherberry wrote: Wouldn't it be impressive to see the Tea Party join ranks with Occupy Wall Street?
That'd put the fear of God into our corporate rulers! Some Teabaggers will, but Occupy Wall Street's innately leftist nature will be too offputting for the majority of them
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: occupy wall st
Darth Indiana Bond wrote: Bradley Witherberry wrote: Wouldn't it be impressive to see the Tea Party join ranks with Occupy Wall Street?
That'd put the fear of God into our corporate rulers! Some Teabaggers will, but Occupy Wall Street's innately leftist nature will be too offputting for the majority of them ...and that bolded comment is the exact reason we remain financial slaves. The corporate media encourages people to believe in that type of polarization - - divide and conquer, FTW!
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Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:58 am |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Re: occupy wall st
Do you even know what the left-right political spectrum is? Or just the brainwashed one that is spat out by Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh?
Right = conservative = status-quo
Left = liberal = change
Thus being right means supporting the way things are.
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Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:24 am |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Re: occupy wall st
Glenn Beck on Occupy Wall Street
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Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:24 pm |
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Rev
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Re: occupy wall st
WOW!
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Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:56 pm |
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Argos
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Re: occupy wall st
Darth Indiana Bond wrote: Right = conservative = status-quo
Left = liberal = change
Thus being right means supporting the way things are. Hehe.
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Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:59 pm |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Argos wrote: Darth Indiana Bond wrote: Right = conservative = status-quo
Left = liberal = change
Thus being right means supporting the way things are. Hehe. Sure, it has changed over time, but those are the original definitions like them or not.
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Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:14 pm |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Re: occupy wall st
Well Liberal does mean a bit more than that. It also means a belief in a free society governed by its people, as according to John Locke who coined the term.
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