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

[Ed Jewett]

Breaking news: 96 arrests, 1000s Occupy Wall Streeters fill Union Sq, Day 8

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Deborah Dupre

, Human Rights Examiner
September 24, 2011




Day 8 Update Approximately 4:30, Sept. 24, 2011
Rights defender Tweeted there have been 96 arrests and more are expected.
"#NYPD overheard: '88 arrests to one precinct, 8 to another. We expect more.'"

Day 8 Update Approximately 3:30, Sept. 24, 2011

Mass arrest happening at 13th near 5th ave now according to #[B]occupyWallStreet[/B] http://yfrog.com/h7w9uucoj #ows
The livestream appears to be down due to another confiscation of the media equipment according to one Tweet from blogdiva Liza Sabater at approximately 3:00 pm ET, "HEADS UP NYC >> RT @AnonymousIRC: Media equipment seized. #[B]OccupyWallstreet[/B] crew in need of a dualcore 2.4 GHz notebook."

The Examiner has been unable to contact the Occupy Wall Street as the phone sounds as though it is disconnected.
Around 3:23, it was Tweeted from #[B]OccupyWallStreet[/B], "The media team was arrested, the streaming will not return. Very sad. Watch it here >> goo.gl/aj94g"
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On Day 8 of the massive protest in New York City against Wall Street corruption, thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters are blocking traffic Saturday afternoon as they head to Union Square loudly chanting to drums, "They got bailed out. We got sold out" as NYPD have a heavy presence as they "cattled" the crowd down the street but appeared sympathetic for the most part according to the livestream, some even smiling when cajoled by demonstrators although some arrests continue.
"What everybody's here protesting is that fact that 1% of the population controls so much wealth. We are the rest of society. We are the 99%," one of the protesters, Becky Wartell said, as reported by the Guardian.
"Please go in the park. Watch the traffic," police repeated when the group arrived at their Saturday destination.
The Guardian reported, "Casey O'Neill had no regrets. He had travelled thousands of miles across the country and gave up a well-paying job as a data manager in California to sleep rough in a downtown Manhattan public square, enduring rain and increasingly chilly nights. Police keep a close eye on him every day."

"But O'Neill was happy to be part of the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests that have transformed New York's Zuccotti Park from a spot where Wall Streeters grab a lunchtime sandwich into an informal camp of revolutionaries, socialists, anarchists and quite a lot of the just-plain-annoyed."

"Regrets? No. God, no," said O'Neill, 34. "It is a little scary for sure. Somebody had to make a stand to do this. It is kind of amazing right now." O'Neill is even happy to sleep on the park's concrete benches. "It's OK, actually," he said.

O'Neill is among the others camping in the Zuccotti Square that "looks ramshackle but in fact is highly organised."
According to the Guardian, the camp "looks rapidly on the way to becoming a fixture of downtown Manhattan life if the police let the protesters stay there."
Four media team people have been arrested.
On Saturday, a woman with the first name Rachel was arrested, after which she repeated, "I just asked not to be touched," according to the livestream of the marchers. (See page left for Global Revolution livestream.)
"Let her go. Let her go," the crowd yelled.
"Off the sidewalk in the street," is being loudly chanted to drums, along with, "Who's street? Our street!"
One woman posed bare-breasted according to the Guardian: "Standing bare-breasted behind a poster that proclaimed 'Capitalism Isn't Working', she happily posed for interested bystanders. The lack of clothing, she explained, was a metaphor.
"I can't afford a shirt. Wall Street has stolen the shirts from our backs," she said.
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! reported Wednesday that the protesters' message is clear, "We are the 99 percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent."
Although "the revolution is not being televised," it is being livestreamed.
The Global Revolution livestream of the thousands of protesters marching to Union Square an be viewed on this page left.




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[Magda Hassan]

Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests (Updated)

By Lee Fang on Sep 20, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Yahoo blocks users from sending e-mails about the OccupyWallSt.org website with a message claiming "suspicious activity"

Thinking about e-mailing your friends and neighbors about the protests against Wall Street happening right now? If you have a Yahoo e-mail account, think again. ThinkProgress has reviewed claims that Yahoo is censoring e-mails relating to the protest and found that after several attempts on multiple accounts, we too were prevented from sending messages about the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations.Over the weekend, thousands gathered for a "Tahrir Square"-style protest of Wall Street's domination of American politics. The protesters, organized online and by organizations like Adbusters, have called their effort "Occupy Wall Street" and have set up the website: www.OccupyWallSt.org. However, several YouTube users posted videos of themselves trying to email a message inviting their friends to visit the Occupy Wall St campaign website, only to be blocked repeatedly by Yahoo. View a video of ThinkProgress making the attempt with the same blocked message experienced by others (click full screen for a better view of the text):
ThinkProgress tried other protest websites, like AmericansforProsperity.org and TeaPartyPatriots.org, and both messages were sent smoothly. However, emails relating to the OccupyWallSt.org protest were blocked with the following message (emphasis added):

Your message was not sent
Suspicious activity has been detected on your account. To protect your account and our users, your message has not been sent.
If this error continues, please contact Yahoo! Customer Care for further help.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

ThinkProgress has sent a request for more information to Yahoo, and will post any reply once we have received it with Yahoo's explanation for its apparent censorship.
It's not the first time Yahoo has been accused of political censorship. Yahoo officiallypartners with the repressive Chinese regime to provide the government with access to emails related to groups viewed as dissidents. An explosive investigation by Der Spiegel found that Yahoo provided Chinese authorities with access to emails from journalists, and the snooping resulted in the same journalists being sent to prison camps.
The Occupy Wall Street protests have continued, but if you own a Yahoo e-mail account, you might not know about it.

UPDATE

We're continuing to monitor Yahoo's mail service and have now been able to send messages containing the phrase "Occupy Wall Street" and its website on some Yahoo accounts. On other accounts, however, Yahoo is still blocking the messages.

UPDATE

Yahoo's customer care Twitter account acknowledges blocking the emails, but says it was an unintentional error:

"We apologize 4 blocking occupywallst.org' It was not intentional & caught by our spam filters. It is resolved, but may be a residual delay."

Yahoo's main Twitter account adds:

"Thanks to @YahooMail users & @ThinkProgress for catching problem w/ #Occupywallst.org mail. Prob is fixed, but there may be residual delays."

[Ed Jewett]

Occupy Wall Street: Phalanx of NYPD at Union Square

September 25, 2011 by legitgov

ShareThisOccupy Wall Street: Phalanx of NYPD at Union Square Posted by Lori Price,http://www.legitgov.org/ 25 Sep 2011. In union square where police just arrested 50 plus people from "Occupy Wall Street." They were carrying cameras and travelling in a group. That was their crime. Photos of "Occupy Wall Street" protest as it reached Union Square today. Arrests were made of the entire "Occupy Wall Street media team." --Michael Rectenwald --Photos by Michael Rectenwald.

[Magda Hassan]

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DHS Chemical And Biological Response Unit Surrounding Occupy Wall Street Protesters

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Chemical and Biological Response Units from the Department Of Homeland Security[/URL][URL="http://theintelhub.com/2011/09/25/dhs-chemical-and-biological-response-unit-surrounding-occupy-wall-street-protesters/"] have been confirmed to be surrounding and converging on Occupy Wall Street Protesters.
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It remains to be seen exactly why these units are there, but it would seem to indicate that the police will soon be using chemicals on the protesters.
Considering the fact that the Occupy Wall Street protesters have no chemical or biological weapons, the only need for these type of response units is if the government planned to either let loose chemicals to blame on the protesters or if they plan on using chemicals on them.

[Ed Jewett]

Occupy Wall Street: Its Objects, Issues, and Political Meaning

September 25, 2011 by legitgov

ShareThisOccupy Wall Street: Its Objects, Issues, and Political Meaning --By definition, the ruling class will always rule. By Michael Rectenwald, www.legitgov.org 26 Sep 2011
The Occupy Wall Street protest states its objectives: "to stop corporate greed and corruption on Wall Street and in our political process."
The simple statement and the protest that expresses it appears a reasonable extension of contemporary political discourse, an announcement of complaints that has been voiced by presidential candidates and activists for decades. However, under capitalism, there is no way to remove greed and corruption from Wall Street, or to "get money out of politics."
As for the first prong of the stated demands, ending corporate greed and corruption on Wall Street, one should only note what in fact Wall Street is and does. Wall Street is the exchange house of capitalist expropriation of value. Wall Street exchanges as abstract commodity in a worldwide marketplace profit extracted from the labor process. It also exchanges, through ever-growing layers of speculation, financial products that are further and further removed from the labor process, but which are nevertheless theoretically underwritten by it. Gains and losses on the market by buyers and sellers have to do with bets placed on the exchange value abstracted, however far removed, from labor.
Given that profit is already embedded in the "goods" exchanged on Wall Street, "greed" is utterly, totally, and necessarily intrinsic from the very outset. Capitalism is the systematization of greed and Wall Street is its figural and fiduciary embodiment. Trying to remove greed from Wall Street is like trying to take the blood out of a body and compelling it to walk around. Greed is the blood of capitalism and Wall Street is its heart. To eradicate the domination of systemic greed, we can't remove greed from Wall Street; we must remove Wall Street from the world itself.
Further, capitalism is in a state of systemic crisis. Its paroxysms are felt across the globe and in every locality thereof. Reforms of the FDR variety are being rolled back rather than extended. The era of "progressive" reformism is over and it is not going to return. This is clear if one looks at Europe, where age-old reforms are being undone in nation after nation. Some reform may be necessary and possible in China and India, but in the US and Europe, the political momentum is moving precisely in the opposite direction, and it will not be reversed by "demands" made on reformist terms. The levelling of the international workforce is the order of the day. Rather than curbing the appetite of the capitalist class, the political establishment, in both of its big business parties in the U.S., is involved in feeding it through attacks on the living standards of the vast majority. There will be no reforms of Wall Street that will not be beneficial to Wall Street itself, no matter how they are packaged by the political establishment. Further, the "instruments" of the speculative marketplace multiply faster than any regulators could possibly monitor.
As for the second prong of the demands: removing the influence of money from the political sphere would seem to be a noble and achievable goal. Although the political sphere is separated from the economic sphere by layers of mediation, it should be clear why under existing conditions money cannot and will not be removed from politics. By definition, the ruling class will always rule. And how does the capitalist class express itself politically, if not by means of capital itself? The capitalist class is not going to be hampered by demands that it not express itself politically, using all the means at its disposal. The means at its disposal are many and sundry and include the arsenal of media outlets, capitalist ideology, and the direct political peddling of corporate lobbies, among others. If one outlet is temporarily or partially blocked, the expression will take other routes and the ruling class's interests will nevertheless be represented in the political establishment, which it controls. Given the vast reserve capital holdings of US corporations at present over two trillion dollars the ruling class has plenty at its disposal and its expression will not be denied under existing conditions.
So where does this leave us with regards to Occupy Wall Street? One can rightly remark that the protest is idealistbut not simply in the sense of wearing rose-colored glasses. It is idealist in the sense that it fails to grasp a materialist conception of history. Despite its apparent linking of economics and politics, the protest fails to grasp the economic determinations of the political realm. And so it appears idealistic in the other sense of demanding what it cannot, by definition, achieve. It lacks a coherent theory and thus its praxis is also flawed. As such, it embarks on an "occupation" that pits an army of police against its vanguard, and exposes that vanguard to police brutality, arrest, incarceration and long-term criminal branding. This is often the case for any political and social unrest under capitalism, but, given that it is not organized as labor, the movement's demands are easily dismissed by the targets of the protest. No factory owner stands to lose productive capacity due to a labor strike. No Wall Street brokerage firm will be hindered in its trading operations. The protesters are not directly withholding productive capacity from the economic sphere, nor interrupting the exchange of its commodities. Thus, the protest will have no immediate effect on the political sphere. At most, the movement may be awarded a rhetorical nod by the political establishment, but even this appears unlikely.
Likewise, although it has significance as the legitimate expression of anger at the deteriorating political, economic and social conditions in the US and around the world, the premise of the Occupy Wall Street movement is incoherent and flawed. I am told by protesters and supporters that matters of theory and the eventual make-up of the political order can be resolved after the demands of the protest are met and the people, not corporations, are at the helm. But activity that is not grounded in sound theory is bound to fail. One needs an accurate theory of the atom in order to perform atomic fission. One needs a correct theory of the socio-economic and political realm to effect political change.
Occupy Wall Street and its partner protests elsewhere are nevertheless historically significant. The movement represents merely a slim layer of a much deeper and profound anger, disillusionment, and desperation within a growing segment of the population a sense that the system is deeply flawed and that matters cannot go on as they are. Deep political and social turmoil is roiling the nation and the world. Mass unemployment, especially felt among the youngest workers; massive student debt; operative and incipient "austerity" programs; bailouts and tax hand-outs to the corporate sector; endless bankrupting, imperialist war and its intensification and extension by Obamathese are the matters motivating such expression. The unrest will grow in the coming months, and Occupy Wall Street will appear to have been a predictive symptom of a burgeoning revolutionary potential. This revolutionary potential, however, will remain just that, unless it is wedded to the mass of the workers and is guided by sound theoretical principles and the profound lessons of political history.

Photo: Michael Rectenwald

Michael Rectenwald is Chair and Chief Editorialist of Citizens for Legitimate Government. More of his writings can be foundhere and here.

[Ed Jewett]

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[Peter Lemkin]

The popular occupation of Wall Street is now into it's ninth day of camp in Zucotti Park, renamed as "Liberty Square". The protesters have formed a General Assembly, which meets regularly in nearby Tompkins Park to discuss solutions, and exchange ideas on organization and goals, imitating the method used in similar actions worldwide (Spain, Egypt or Greece, for example). They claim to represent the forgotten 99% of the population, neglected by the ruling 1%. The amount of protesters has risen steadily peaking on Saturday as thousands marched on the streets. The local authorities reacted violently, with NYPD officers repeatedly using an excessive force against peaceful people. According to the New York Daily News at least 50 arrests were made, over 80, according to the protesters. Paul Browne, a police spokesman assured that "those arrested were engaged in disorderly conduct, namely impeding vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic, and in some instances resisting arrest, inciting to riot, obstructing governmental administration, and assaulting a police officer". This, however, seems to contradict many of the videos that appeared on the Internet. For example, the one below contains a slow motion analysis of a senior police officer using a spray canister (it is not known whether it is pepper or mace) against a group of women already kettled-in with police lines.

According to US Law's analysis he "may have been agitated by the nearby arrest of a photographer as no officers appear to be under immediate threat and the women in greatest contact with the sprayed agent appear to have had no instant involvement in that arrest". Even though Mayor Bloomberg stated that civilians were "free to express their opinion", the images are obviously in contradiction with his words:

The controversy has given the movement a lot of publicity from the mainstream media, who were at first slow to cover (here you can find a collection of these sources), leading many to think it will find even more public support. This same reaction has already taken place in similar protests in Barcelona, Madrid and Athens, when thousands took to the streets after repression. As of now, several copy-cat protests have sprung up across the U.S. and are being tracked down in http://occupytogether.org.
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[Keith Millea]

Holy Crap!The MSM has seen the light.

[Magda Hassan]

Far out! This is MSNBC? They came to the party with the speed of a sloth high on valium but when they came they partied.

[Ed Jewett]

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