Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for!

[Peter Lemkin]

A VERY special day in NYC begins now. It goes ALL day and will move from place to place - at times almost everywhere. Watch it live here. [There will be multiple streams - this is but one!] Others later will be here. :mexican: :gossip: Pssst! This Will be BIG! Today is 2 months. Some of the many actions will be: an attempt to SHUT DOWN the NYSE!!!!; a confrontation of the Judge that Bloomburg had in his pocket; actions in the transit system of NYC and on almost all the bridges! The police are playing the 'no parade permit card' today....but it is not working! Marchers heading down alternative streets and police doing same...gonna get ugly! Crowds chanting 'Gestapo'! So far, crowds slipping through blockades by police!......my heart racing! I have watched in the last hour the protesters swell from a few hundred to a few thousand, but they have split up and hard to tell. They have pushed right through some groups of Police!
:popworm: And more! [secret]!

No way there will be enough Police to stifle all of this!

[Peter Lemkin]

Philadelphia Police Capt Ray Lewis Joins OWS Protest and Gives Message to NYPD from Zuccotti Park .

Yes, this has shocked many, even some Police Officers and there have been threats to him. OWS has arranged some security for him and it is sad it is needed. We need to see others in their uniforms [whether currently on duty or formerly] joining! I take my hat off to him. He was very brave to come in uniform and knows the backlash he'll get from some Neanderthals.

Retired Philadelphia Police captain Ray Lewis has joined Occupy Wall Street, calling the New York Police Department's conduct "disgusting" and "totally uncalled for" He is even into 9-11 Truth [a very good entry point for the other Police, as many were physically there and saw things that don't fit the official fiction!]

He was ARRESTED today in NYC! He was IN UNIFORM! They know exactly who he is! He was breaking no law! He crossed the thin blue line of silence and solidarity withing the 'force'.

[Albert Doyle]

This guy is probably for real, however it isn't beyond psy-ops to put a sympathetic cop out there to relieve the tension between the cops and protesters. That way the police could do crowd control while the protesters run into a Homeland Security brick wall further along.

[Ed Jewett]

Coming from a background of interest in topics related to emergency management, I have crossed paths with more than a few treatises on the mechanisms of having to suddenly evacuate a a geographic space (buildings like skyscrapers or terrain, as if in a nuclear power plant event, or barrier beaches in the bulls-eye of a hurricane.) (Yes, indeed, these were studied and prepared and simulated with groups of local emergency management staffers in advance of Katrina, but the necessary funding for the final integration and close-out of the computerized simulation through LSU was yanked by the Bush admin. in favor of expenditures in Iraq.) So, if you want to establish gridlock, pull out a map, study the island of Manhattan, its bridges, tunnels, key intersections, etc., and reverse engineer an evacuation. Strategically-placed actions will force the NYPD to engineer gridlock. But watch out for the LRAD's.

[Ed Jewett]

As an extension of the above: Extended study of tactics and strategy [the three pre-eminent sources are Sun Tzu, Sir BH Liddell-Hart and John Boyd, and Morihei Ueshiba] demonstrate that the functional and effective techniques of confrontation involve taking away the enemy's tools and moving in such a way as to make his weapons useless. Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" has at least seven major translations, is online, etc. Liddell-Hart wrote "Strategy", a masterpiece on the use of "the indirect approach". Boyd's works include his thesis on destruction and creation, as well as the files, books and briefings (all online) on the OODA loop. Ueshiba founded aikido, and you can google up videos that show unarmed men going against those with knives and swords and remaining uncut & triumphant.

The latter is not to suggest violence. (Engaging in violence will feed into their power.) This is beautifully expressed in the indirect strategy, out-thinking the opposition (Boyd's energy-maneuverability theories), and in Ueshiba's writings, teachings and practice. [There is a direction connection to being grounded, relaxed, aware, centered and energized.] If the resistance can move more nimbly, think more quickly, act more humanely....

As I have read all those books (and they are on my shelf at my elbow), and have studied and practiced aikido and have over a dozen related books (and there are scads of YouTube demos)....
mallprint:
I think I have an idea for a new blog.

[Ed Jewett]

And add to the above the ability to

"engage in "cascade thinking".

(Such "strategic exploration" processes and software can be found here:

http://www.strategicexploration.com/i- wheel/index.htm.) This tool and its associated process allows a detailed examination of second-generation and third-generation consequences of decisions, policies and actions.

As Joel Barker suggests, the community needs to send out its scouts to examine the trail ahead, in order to know what lies ahead."

[Ed Jewett]

Monitoring #N17

November 17th, 2011Monitoring the Wall Street protest this morning: So far, the cops have it fully under control. They have barricaded the area around NYSE and are requiring that people show work IDs to get inside the zone.
Live video streams: Livestream, Ustream.
NYPD Manhattan Precincts 1-23 and Citywide 1-3 Live Audio Feed.
Monitor Twitter with monitter.com (great tool!). I'm using the following query: #n17 -RT
Posted in Police State

[Ed Jewett]

Justice Dept: Homeland Security Advised Raids On Occupy Wall Street Camps

November 17, 2011 by legitgov

ShareThisJustice Dept: Homeland Security Advised Raids On Occupy Wall Street Camps 16 Nov 2011 According to Rick Ellis at the Examiner, a Justice Department official says that the recent evictions of Occupy movement across the country including Salt Lake City,Denver, Portland, Oakland, and New York City were "coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies." Ellis reports that his source says though the decision to evict protesters ultimately rested with each individual jurisdiction, the local police departments "had received tactical and planning advice from national agencies" from the feds. Oakland's mayor Jean Quan told the BBC yesterday that she had participated in a conference call with the leaders of 18 other cities to discuss [the Occupy protest situation].

[Ed Jewett]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRQodSK7...r_embedded

Uploaded by RTAmerica on Nov 17, 2011
Violent arrests are taking place in New York where a huge anti-Wall Street rally is underway. RT's Marina Portnaya reports that hundreds of activists are marching across the city, pledging to occupy streets, bridges, the subway in protest against economic inequality.

NYPD blast LRAD Sonic weapon against OWS protest

[Ed Jewett]

http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/occ...?qr=1&qr=1

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Occupy Wall Street November 17: Journalists Arrested, Beaten By Police


The Huffington Post Jack Mirkinson First Posted: 11/17/11 12:27 PM ET Updated: 11/17/11 01:17 PM ET

As thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters took to the streets on Thursday, journalists once again found themselves a target of police violence and arrests.

Reporters took to Twitter and, in some cases, to television to spread the word of the heavy hand police were using against them. It appeared to be a repeat of a similar scene two days earlier, when journalists were roughed up and arrested as the NYPD forcibly cleared the Occupy Wall Street encampment in lower Manhattan.

Lucy Kafanov, a reporter for the RT television network, said she was hit with a police baton while trying to film the protests. She told another reporter for her network that she had her press credentials clearly visible, but was still struck. She also said that she witnessed another reporter from the IndyMedia network being "slammed against the wall" and arrested.

"It does not seem police are making a distinction between press and protesters," she said. Other journalists reported similar incidents.

"Saw NYPD hitting a man with a nightstick. Tried to take a picture but police grabbed me and shoved me across the street," DNAInfo editor Julie Shapiro tweeted. "The NYPD just slammed a barricade into a photographer," another report read.

The Daily Caller also said that two of its reporters were "assaulted" with batons.

Josh Stearns, a member of media reform group Free Press who has been tracking the arrests of journalists at Occupy movements, estimates that 26 have been arrested in total since the protests began two months ago. On Thursday, that number looked set to grow substantially, as reports of arrests poured in. Baltimore reporter Ryan Harvey and In These Times writer J.A. Meyerson -- were reportedly arrested.

In addition, a picture said to be of Keith Gessen, editor of n+1 magazine, being held on the ground by police was tweeted. Gessen and two other journalists were later said to have been arrested, and video footage emerged of Gessen being taken away by police. His case was somewhat different than the others, though, since he appeared to be participating in civil disobedience. He latermade a statement to a local ABC station explaining why he had participated in the protests.

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[B]Wall St. Protesters Clash With Police; 250 Are Arrested

James Estrin/The New York Times

A group of Occupy Wall Street supporters took a subway to an evening rally in Foley Square. More Photos »

By CARA BUCKLEY

Published: November 17, 2011



Thousands of protesters across the country flooded streets, squares, bridges and banks on Thursday, snarling traffic and often clashing with the police in a show of support for the Occupy Wall Streetmovement, two months to the day after the demonstration began.



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In Lower Manhattan, protesters tossed aside metal barricades to converge again on Zuccotti Park after failing in an attempt to shut down the New York Stock Exchange. In Los Angeles, more than 20 protesters were arrested after ignoring orders to vacate downtown streets. In Denver, 100 protesters marched by government buildings and intersections, bringing traffic to a standstill.

Organized weeks ago, the so-called day of action came two days after the police cleared the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in Manhattan in an early morning raid. Ousted from the park that had become their de facto headquarters, protesters looked to Thursday to gauge the support and mettle that the movement had retained.

"We failed to close the stock exchange, but we took back our park," said Adam Farooqui, 25, of Queens. "That was a real victory."

Throughout Manhattan on Thursday, about 250 people had been arrested by the evening, many after rough confrontations with the police. The police said that 5 protesters were charged with felony assault, and that 7 officers and 10 protesters were injured.

In more than a dozen cities, the demonstrations included marches across bridges, which protesters said were emblematic of a deteriorating public infrastructure. The largest of these marches was to take place across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Shortly before 6 p.m., about 80 protesters, including a New York City councilman, Jumaane D. Williams, were arrested for blocking a roadway that leads to the Manhattan side of the bridge. Protesters, many carrying candles, later filed across the bridge's pedestrian walkway and crossed the East River.

The demonstrations came as encampments nationwide were being cleared out by city officials. In Philadelphia on Thursday, about 75 members of Occupy Philly met to discuss how to respond to city notices, posted on Wednesday, urging them to leave their encampment because construction plans were imminent.

Occupy Oakland, where protesters have had sharp confrontations with the police, chose not to participate in the call to action, shifting its next planned protest to Saturday in an effort to "continue this national momentum," according to the group's Web site.

"I don't think anything is going to stop this," said Jack Kelsh, 47, a bus driver who joined protesters in Denver. "The more resistance they get, the stronger they are going to get and the more rallies you are going to see."

The events in New York City began shortly before 8 a.m. Throughout the morning, the protesters wound their way through the heart of the financial district in an increasingly tense cat-and-mouse game with the police. At one point, the protesters engulfed police vehicles, forcing them to halt, and broke police lines, only to be pushed back by metal barricades and swinging batons.

The stock exchange opened for trading as usual at 9:30 a.m.

The marchers returned to Zuccotti Park, hoisted the police barricades that had been encircling it and rushed past officers, some of whom began shoving demonstrators and throwing punches.

In the early afternoon, the police led a man with a bloodied face from the park. Onlookers said the man had flicked the hat from an officer's head and rushed into the crowd.

Shortly afterward, the police said that the hand of an officer had been badly cut by a shard of glass wielded by a protester near Zuccotti Park, and that the officer's attacker was in custody.

Protesters had planned to "occupy the subways" in all five boroughs at 3 p.m., but the activist turnout on the trains was scant. At 5 p.m., thousands of protesters and members of about a dozen unions converged on Foley Square.

"It's magnificent," Laurel Sturt, 55, who teaches elementary school at Public School 91 in the Bronx, said as she gazed at the crowd. "All great movements of the past started like this."

At a Midtown gathering of business leaders on Thursday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that the protests were a dire sign of the public's economic fears.

"The public is getting scared," he said. "They don't know what to do, and they're going to strike out." He added, "They just know the system isn't working, and they don't want to wait around."


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