Journalists and others lit up Twitter with claims of media blackouts and physical aggression by the NYPD as the police continued to empty Zuccotti Park of all protestors and media, alike.
However, on this day, the Beantown folk have bested the Big Apple thanks to the decision of Suffolk Superior Court Judge Frances McIntyre, denying the city the right to remove occupiers from Dewey Square in a Zuccotti Park fashion. The stay is only temporary, but will be in place until a court hearing on December 1st.
So you know how the right-wing has been trying to control if not totally abolish free speech when it runs counter to their corporate agenda? Well, if today’s eviction of the protestors in Zuccoti Park serves as any indication of the plutocrats shaking in their $2000 eagle-feathered boots, then ejecting a woman for wearing a t-shirt you don’t like is a confirmation of that fact.
At 5:00 p.m. ET, NY Supreme Court Justice Michael D. Stallman reversed the restraining order. Arguing that Zuccotti Park is private and thus subject to somewhat different rules, according to him.
It was a regular night at Zuccotti Park until New York Mayor, Mike Bloomberg, decided to use his power to create a “temporary” police state and force the movement to a breaking point. It bent, but it did not break. According to The Washington Post, demonstrators “should temporarily leave and remove tents and tarps,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office said today on its Twitter feed. “Protesters can return after the park is cleared.”
By trespassing, we are saying that mega-corporate occupation of the power and wealth of this nation is illegitimate. We are here to take our power back and do our best to divest from an economic system that harms us and our fellow citizens
Bloomberg says the protesters can return but that they must do so without tents. This is a brand new rule dreamed up by the owners of the park and Bloomberg that would significantly weaken the Occupy Wall Street movement. But the courts are intervening to protect the right to protest.
It’s true that this movement is, in part, about handouts, but it’s not the Occupy Wall Street protesters who are seeking handouts.
Elizabeth Warren, the former Havard professor and progressive Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate released her first television advertisement on Sunday that directly targets the undue influence Wall Street has on government decisions.
As city officials all across the nation embark on dismantling Occupy Wall Street protest encampments, a central grievance of the OWS was broadcast last evening ’60 Minutes’.
Our just being here, confounds and enrages the 1% – and so they are frantic to make us go away. You know the mantra. They ignore us. When that doesn’t work they ridicule us. When that doesn’t work they find or invent laws to arrest us. When the jails are full and the police are exhausted what do they do then? Do they shoot us with ‘real’ bullets?
I sense a pattern forming here. Just two days after Michele Bachmann had an event interrupted by the 99% at a campaign event on the USS Yorktown, Eric Cantor got the ‘Occupy’ treatment at an event on the Rice University campus in Texas.
Frank Miller is a comic book writer. Notable for such works like ’300,’ ‘Batman: The Dark Knight Returns,’ and ‘Sin City,’ you would think Miller would be thrilled about protests against powerful entities. But he has no love for the Occupy Wall Street protesters. In fact, he hates them.
There are reports that the police are pushing back now. Earlier in the evening the official police spokesman referred to their job of “controlling” free speech. Inartful? Or a moment of unexpected truthtelling?
During the GOP Debate on Saturday night, Michele Bachmann made a huge gaffe. She criticized President Obama for supporting the American people over a foreign nation.
Twitter troll and make-believe journalist, Andrew Breitbart–being the right-wing tool that he is–posted a video on his website that claims to be that of a man murdered at Occupy Vermont, even though every other news source including his own has it reported as an apparent suicide.
The news-worthiness of this commercial has taken on a new level of attractiveness, in my mind. Last evening the commercial ran on Fox News, during Bill O’Reilly’s, The O’Reilly Factor, as well as other cable television channels.
In what may perhaps be seen as a telling milestone in voters’ acknowledgement of base-less, Right wing hysteria, social conservative initiatives presented at the ballots this past Election Day just got axed.
Another shameful video has now gone viral on You Tube showing yet another unjustified shooting of a peaceful Occupy protester by Oakland policeman.
