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Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Peter Lemkin - 15-11-2011
New York (CNN) -- A New York judge issued an order Tuesday morning allowing Occupy Wall Street protesters to return to Zuccotti Park, just hours after scores of police in riot gear ordered them out and tore down their tents.
The order from New York Supreme Court Judge Lucy Billings allows protesters to bring tents and other equipment back into the privately-owned park where the now-global Occupy movement began.
City officials had intended to allow protests to resume at the park, but said they would not allow demonstrators to set up tents or camp. The park will remain closed until officials sort out the legal situation, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
"We have an obligation to enforce the laws today, to make sure that everybody has access to the park so everybody can protest. That's the First Amendment and it's number one on our minds," he said. "We also have a similar, just as important obligation to protect the health and safety of the people in the park."
A hearing was scheduled for 11:30 a.m. ET to discuss the order.
The operation to clear the park began around 1 a.m., according to Bloomberg, with police handing out notices from the park's owner, Brookfield Office Properties, that said the continued occupation posed a health and fire hazard.
"You are required to immediately remove all property, including tents, sleeping bags and tarps from Zuccotti Park," the note said. "That means you must remove the property now."
Police in riot gear then moved into the park, evicting hundreds of protesters.
Dozens of protesters who had camped out at the Lower Manhattan park since September 17 linked arms in defiance. Many chanted, "Whose park? Our park" and "You don't have to do this."
Police arrested more than 100 people, according to Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne. New York City Council member Ydanis Rodriguez was among those arrested, his spokesman, David Segal, told CNN.
Medical crews treated three people for minor injuries, Bloomberg said. A police officer was also hospitalized after experiencing heart palpitations, he said.
Continuing concerns about public health and safety and the impact of the protests on nearby businesses, as well as the rights of others to use the park, prompted city officials to dismantle the camp, Bloomberg said. While the city has a long history of embracing free expression, circumstances at the park had become "intolerable," he explained.
The Occupy Wall Street website video-streamed the eviction under a banner headline that read, "NYPD is raiding Liberty Square." Liberty Square is the former name of the park.
While many protesters left without resisting, many others moved to the center of the park to an area known as the "kitchen." There, they built barricades with tables to keep police away.
The air was thick with smoke, which some protesters said was from tear gas that officers lobbed.
Others said officers took thousands of books from the camp's makeshift library and tossed them in Dumpsters.
"In an immense show of force, police have shown their presence," said Kanene Holder, a spokeswoman for the Occupy Wall Street movement. "I've seen how agitated the police are and some (are) pushing and shoving to remove us."
CNN could not confirm those accounts, as police kept journalists a block and a half away from the park during the raid.
However, CNN was able to obtain footage of piles of clothing, tents and tarps made by police as they cleaned out the park.
One protester told CNN he was awakened by "shouting and screaming" and wasn't sure what was going on. He said he didn't find out about the order to vacate until later.
By 4:30 a.m., the Lower Manhattan park was clear, with about 40 city crews in orange vests scraping up trash and pressure washing sidewalks.
After briefly reopening around 8 a.m., the park closed again as city officials learned of the court order. About 50 people who had been allowed back in were asked to leave.
Tuesday morning, several hundred protesters marched from Foley Square, where they had gathered after Zuccotti Park was cleared, to City Hall, chanting "We are unstoppable, another world is possible" and "This is what democracy looks like."
Bloomberg said Occupy demonstrators "must follow the park rules if they wished to continue to use it to protest."
"Protesters -- and the general public -- are welcome there to exercise their First Amendment rights, and otherwise enjoy the park, but will not be allowed to use tents, sleeping bags or tarps and, going forward, must follow all park rules," Bloomberg said.
"The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day. Ever since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with, as the park has been taken over by protesters, making it unavailable to anyone else ... the park was becoming a place where people came not to protest, but rather to break laws, and in some cases, to harm others."
Many protesters complied with the order to remove property, he said, but police and the city's Sanitation Department "assisted in removing any remaining tents and sleeping bags," the mayor said.
While most protesters were peaceful, "an unfortunate minority" were not, Bloomberg said, prompting reports of businesses being threatened and complaints regarding noise and unsanitary conditions.
Bloomberg said he and Brookfield Properties had become concerned about health and fire safety hazards posed by the encampment. "But make no mistake -- the final decision to act was mine," he said.
"Protesters have had two months to occupy the park with tents and sleeping bags," the mayor said. "Now they will have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments."
Many of the hundreds who left quickly reassembled two blocks away, chanting, "We are back together."
Jeremy Baratta, a 32-year-old Army veteran, called the health concerns that authorities cited a pretext.
"It was fairly clean," he said of the park. "No urine or fecal matter. There weren't things strewn about."
Since the protests began in September, the encampment at the park had taken on an air of permanency, with tents covering the public plaza from one end to the other. Protesters said they were there for the long haul.
Last month, Bloomberg had ordered protesters to vacate the park so it could be cleaned, but Brookfield changed its mind after it said it was "inundated" with calls.
On Monday, police in Oakland, California, conducted a similar raid when they moved in to the Occupy encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza near City Hall and tore down tents. Officers made 33 arrests.
There, too, the park is reopen to protesters, but city officials will enforce a ban on camping in the park with an around-the-clock police presence.
The Tuesday morning eviction of Zuccotti Park comes ahead of plans by the protesters to "shut down" Wall Street on Thursday -- to mark the two-month anniversary of their movement.
Baratta, the protester, said that the movement will continue whether or not the park serves as a base.
"You're going to have to deal with us," he said. "We're not going to show up for an hour and then leave. They're going to have to acknowledge us."
Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Lauren Johnson - 15-11-2011
Oakland Mayor Admits Cities Coordinated Crackdown on #Occupy Movement http://wp.me/p1BCIH-4i #occupytogether #occupywallstreet #occupywallst
so even with an injunction allowing the protesters back in the park, police are ignoring it and private security forces are brought in #ows"
Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Albert Doyle - 16-11-2011
Billion dollar Bloomberg isn't fit to be a mayor in a democracy. Impeach him and get him out of the mayorship. Look at that weasel enforcing contrived health rules in the face of a serious democratic revolution.
Time to take back both the park and the democracy!
Fresh reinforcements - Get up off your couches and get into the city!
Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Ed Jewett - 16-11-2011
I like the symbolic and non-violent action of letting the air out of the tires of police cruisers....
Now if we can just figure out how to do that with "things Pentagon" and the Federal Reserve.
Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Ed Jewett - 16-11-2011
Occupy Wall Street: Cops Have Cleared Protesters from Zuccotti Park
November 15th, 2011LRAD on scene, pic1, pic2.Live video streams: Livestream, Ustream.
NYPD Manhattan Precincts 1-23 and Citywide 1-3 Live Audio Feed.
Via: AP:
Occupy Wall Street protesters have been ordered to leave Zuccotti Park, their longtime encampment in Lower Manhattan, but they've been told they can return once it has been cleaned.
At about 1 a.m. Tuesday, police handed out notices from the park's owner, Brookfield Office Properties, and the city saying that the park had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous. Protesters were told they could return in several hours, but without sleeping bags, tarps or tents.
Paul Browne, a spokesman for the New York Police Department, says most people began filing out of the park once they received the notices; one person was arrested for disorderly conduct. Brown says the park was not heavily populated Tuesday morning.
Rabbi Chaim Gruber, an Occupy Wall Street member, said police officers were clearing the streets near Zuccotti Park.
"The police are forming a human shield, and are pushing everyone away," he said.
Posted in Police State
Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Ed Jewett - 16-11-2011
NYPD Assaults Man & Punches Woman in Face at OWS / Liberty Plaza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxR8VHFvsl8&feature=player_embedded#!
Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Ed Jewett - 16-11-2011
Breaking: Mayor Jean Quan Admits Coordinated Raids on Occupy Camps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I87roZGeGhw&feature=player_embedded
Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Magda Hassan - 16-11-2011
Albert Doyle Wrote:Billion dollar Bloomberg isn't fit to be a mayor in a democracy. Impeach him and get him out of the mayorship. Look at that weasel enforcing contrived health rules in the face of a serious democratic revolution.There is a recall petition going around. I'll have to find the link.
Time to take back both the park and the democracy!
Fresh reinforcements - Get up off your couches and get into the city!
Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Ed Jewett - 16-11-2011
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A billionaire media baron presiding over a deeply corrupt plutocratic government -- no, not Berlusconi; Bloomberg -- has swept in to crush a small protest movement that dared question the legitimacy and efficacy of the ruling oligarchy. The 'ideological cleansing' of Zuccotti Park -- in the dead of night, with no warning, by hordes of heavily armed police, and the press literally penned up far from the action, all in the classic police-state style to which most Americans seem happily habituated -- is a temporary setback to the Occupy movement in New York.But over in London, where -- at this writing at least -- the Occupiers are still firmy ensconced before St. Paul's Cathedral, John Gray has some thoughts on the movement's implications. From the Guardian:
The Occupy movements have been attacked for being impractical visionaries. In fact it is the established political classes of the west that are wedded to utopian thinking, while the protesters are recalling us to the actualities of human experience. Based on economic theories that left out human beings, the global free market was supposed to be self-regulating. Now a process of disintegration is under way, in which the structures set up in the post-cold-war period are visibly breaking up.
Anyone with a smattering of history could see that the hubristic capitalism of the past 20 years was programmed to self-destruct. The notion that the world's disparate societies could be corralled into a worldwide free market was always a dangerous fantasy. Opening up economies throughout the world meant ordinary people were more directly exposed to the gyrations of market forces th
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an they had been for generations. As it overthrew existing patterns of life and robbed large numbers of people of any security they might have achieved, global capitalism was bound to trigger a powerful blowback.For as long as it was able to engineer an illusion of increasing prosperity, free-market globalisation was politically invulnerable. When the bubble burst, the actual condition of the majority was laid bare. In the US a plantation-style economy has come into being, with debt-servitude for the many coexisting with extremes of volatile wealth for the few. In Europe the muddled dream of a single currency has resulted in social devastation in Greece, mass unemployment in Spain and other countries, and even, for some, reversion to a life based on barter: sucking society into a vortex of debt deflation, austerity policies are driving a kind of reverse economic development. In many countries a settled bourgeois existence supposedly the basis of popular capitalism has become an impossible aspiration. Large numbers are edging closer to poverty and a life without hope. ...
The demands of the Occupy movement may be inchoate, or else conflicting. But it is not the protesters who threaten the world economy. The danger comes from denying the fact of systemic crisis. By trying to prop up a system that is chronically dysfunctional, our rulers are making a cataclysmic collapse more likely. ...The people camped outside St Paul's may have no clear solutions. But it is they not ruling elites in thrall to a defunct market utopia who are engaging with reality.
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Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - Ed Jewett - 16-11-2011
http://cryptome.org/info/ows-19/ows-19.htm (lots of 8x10 glossies...)