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WHAT YOUR MEDIA WON'T SHOW YOU---- WAS POSTED ON FACEBOOK and MIKE MOORE's website (he was at the NYC protest) 700 WERE ARRESTED ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE NY SeNIORS HAD THEIR OWN GROUP on WA
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posted at October 2, 2011 5:54 AM EDT
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WHAT YOUR MEDIA WON'T SHOW YOU---- WAS POSTED ON FACEBOOK and MIKE MOORE's website (he was at the NYC protest) 700 WERE ARRESTED ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE NY SeNIORS HAD THEIR OWN GROUP on WALL STREET --- INTERMINGLED WITH THE YOUNG IN NYC OCT 1st 12:39 pm DOZENS OF PROTESTORS CAMP IN FRONT OF FEDERAL RESERVE BUILDING OF BOSTON 11:14 am. Protestors march on NYPD headquarters. For some protestors the march was an attempt to convince the police to unite with their cause. Police have arrested two dozen protesters for trespassing during a demonstration against Bank of America's foreclosure practices at the banking giant's offices in downtown Boston.
"They wanted to be arrested, and we obliged," Boston police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told the newspaper. Organizers say about 3,000 people joined the protest. Bank of America spokesman T.J. Crawford dismissed the demonstration as a publicity stunt. There was no mention of Bank of America's planned debit card fees, which recently have generated headlines and frustrated customers nationwide. Hundreds of people protesting Wall Street abuses were penned in and arrested by police Saturday OCT 1st However, on the street ...the folks that weren't say they are there indefinately....regardless. One YOUNG PERSON carried a sign saying 25, NO HEALTH CARE, COLLEGE DEGREE, UNEMPLOYED AND STUGGLING, + I FEEL LIKE MY VOTE IS NULLIFIED BY CORPORATE LOBBYISTS |
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Re: PROTESTS
posted at October 4, 2011 1:37 PM EDT
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That whole arrest thing was a scam. Not by the protesters. Did you see pictures of all the police men? Who paid for that? (could it have been JP Morgan?) Not one police officer ever told them they could not walk on the bridge. What ever happened to communication? It's really ashame that the media is blacking out all the good that is happening. Most people don't even know it's going on. So it's time to get with the program and use social media to get information. I don't have the link here, but there is a good clip on You Tube. It's a young man being interviewed by Fox News. You will not see it on TV. The kid tells the truth and FOX, can't handle the truth. Who runs the media? Yes, Corporations and others who want to keep Americans stupid so they can profit. |
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Re: PROTESTS
posted at October 5, 2011 7:56 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: PROTESTS: Posted by creative1here Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge
Day #15, OCCUPY WALL STREET 10/1/11 I had just spent 8 hours, with 700 of my closest friends, being detained, while Occupying the Brooklyn Bridge. At 3pm, We started marching around OUR city, making our demands for Peace, Freedom, Economic Justice, and Equality, when Mayor Hosni Bloomberg's NYPD entrapped us into using the Brooklyn Bridge roadway, rather than the raised deck of the Pedestrian ...Walkway. Nine, or 10,000 Thousand folks, (like VFP's 'Nam Vets George McAnanama & Dr Camillo Mac Bica), were able to use the raised walkway, but those 700 of us on the actual Roadway got tired at the Mid-span of the Bridge, near the famous Neo-Gothic stone Suspension Cable Towers, and we plopped down to study the beautiful Archways built into the Towers, and the lovely geometric designs of the graceful steel suspension cables . Mayor Bloomies NYPD didn't play that (4 ltr word removed) . From 4pm to 7pm, we were absolutely saturated with rain, while the Police were realizing THEY, too, are part of the 99%, as big hits to their Pension Plans are being discussed. Police finally got about 10 big ass MTA busses, (because their meat wagons were woefully inadequate, for all 700 of us.) They backed the buses up from both the Brooklyn side, and the Manhattan side, and by 7pm, we were all on board the 2nd & 3rd waves of busses, and by 8pm, we were processed and locked into about TWENTY 1 person cells, crammed with 7 or 8 peeps each. Our Occupation's use of The Communal "Mic Check" is really valuable. We were able to communicate messages to all 20 cells, on opposite sides of the wing of the jail, for Legal Aid ph #'s, messages from the last folks to get out, to the 1st peeps to be sprung, get said messages out to loved ones, and even the cops on the transport busses were using "Mic Check" to communicate to us which of the 3 processing Precincts we were going to, and all the niceties that kids who've never been detained should know. We sang, laughed, joked, and grooved, until we were released, around 2am, and most of us got back to LIBERTY PLAZA by 3am, a mere 12 hours after our March left LIBERTY PLAZA. The last 40 or so photos in this FaceBook Album are the last of our 5 and 6 person Affinity groups, as we got out of the 75th Precinct, and we joyfully welcomed each other's illusory freedom, then travelled back to our Liberty Plaza Base Camp, off WALL STREET. I was honored to be jailed with all the young-uns (y'all wouldn't believe the age demographics of the kids), and it was my SECOND favorite DETENTION since Hosni Mubarak detained 600 of us, in Tahrir Square, on Dec 31, 2009, on the Gaza Freedom March (13 months BEFORE the Egypt Revolution) All in all, I think Mayor Hosni Bloomberg ENTRAPPED us into going onto the Bridge Deck (Roadway), then had some pretty decent cops doing PR, to make up for Misogynist, Chauvanist, and Sadist Commander Anthony Bologna (Tony Baloney), and his cruel beating & macing of 7 women, the previous Saturday. I've been in a huge number of "Holding Cells" over the past 64 years,and, usually, all you get is 2 slices of white bread, a slice of cheese, and a glass of water, or maybe some Kool Aide. The cops @ the 75th Precinct, in East New York section of Brooklyn, gave us hamburgers, and Cola. Go figgure. We ARE making a difference. Indy Media, blogs, one on one conversations, and even lil photo stories are helping folks follow the Reeces Pieces, as they self educate themselves of the evils of our economic system, and 700 arrests have finally gotten the Lame Stream Media to pay attention. I'm hoping to see all y'all , starting on Wednesday, Oct 5, to bring a large segment of WALL STREET's OCCUPATION to the politician-Puppets of Wall Street, who operate for the Corporations, in the Senate & House on Capital Hill, in DC, October 6th until ??? ENJOY these 199 PHOTOS xoxoxo Be Well, RAISE HELL ! Bill Perry Delaware Valley Veterans For America Disabled American Veteran, VVAW, VFP, VFW, VVA http://DelValVets4America.org/ www.arlington-libertybell.net/" target="_blank">http://www.Arlington-Libertybell.net/ See More By: Bill Perry |
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Re: PROTESTS
posted at October 24, 2011 11:59 AM EDT
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