A Call for Reinforcements
Hey jammers,
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is happening right now at Liberty Plaza!
It started last Saturday, when 5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of Lower Manhattan, waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and proceeded to walk towards the "financial Gomorrah" of the nation. They vowed to "occupy Wall Street" and to "bring justice to the bankers", but the New York police thwarted their efforts, locking down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints. Undeterred, protesters walked laps around the area before holding a people's assembly and setting up a semi-permanent protest encampment in a park on Liberty Street, a stone's throw from Wall Street and a block from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Three hundred spent the night, several hundred reinforcements arrived the next day and as we write this, the encampment is digging in for a long-term stay. #OCCUPYWALLSTREET has been established in Zuccotti Park, which has now been renamed Liberty Plaza. With Liberty Plaza liberated, and acting as a base in the financial district, the indignados have been sending out raiding parties to nearby Wall Street and beyond.
Bravo to those courageous souls in the encampment on New York's Liberty Street. Every night that #OCCUPYWALLSTREET continues will escalate the possibility of a full-fledged global uprising against business as usual.
Now, it is crucial for everyone from all over the world to flock to the encampment. Call in to work sick, invite your friends and hop on a bus or plane to New York City.
We need you at Liberty Plaza!
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
occupywallstreet.org / occupywallst.org / nycga.net / Reddit
PS. The media is finally buzzing about #OCCUPYWALLSTREET. There have been reports at Democracy Now!, MSNBC, CNN, WSJ, NYT, El Pais and elsewhere.
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Anonymous
How is sitting in the park, juggling and shouting slogans going to help? Do these people honestly believe that being in a designated area, looking pretty is going to accomplish anything? It won't. If all you're going to do is halfarse the protest, it won't accomplish anything except to disillusion the regular people into believing that this is just another lame, pointless protest by the same people who are at every other protest out there. The reason these things had any effect elsewhere is because when people were told to move, they said NO. Why doesn't #Occupywallsteet seem to have anything at all to do with occupying wall street!?
Anonymous
How is sitting in the park, juggling and shouting slogans going to help? Do these people honestly believe that being in a designated area, looking pretty is going to accomplish anything? It won't. If all you're going to do is halfarse the protest, it won't accomplish anything except to disillusion the regular people into believing that this is just another lame, pointless protest by the same people who are at every other protest out there. The reason these things had any effect elsewhere is because when people were told to move, they said NO. Why doesn't #Occupywallsteet seem to have anything at all to do with occupying wall street!?
Anonymous
stop being so negative
or maybe you are the same folk that we are opposed to....
Anonymous
stop being so negative
or maybe you are the same folk that we are opposed to....
Anonymous
Way to make my point.
Anonymous
Way to make my point.
From Syntagma S...
I agree with you with the "The reason these things had any effect elsewhere is because when people were told to move, they said NO" but you never know how this will end. Even if the police sends away everyone it wont be a nothing protest. It will be something to be used in the future as experience. The near future i hope.
For now, you have no idea how encouraging it is for lots of people, inside or far away from America, to see any kind of action in the homeland of this system of consumers and corporations!
The "indignados" movement of Greece for lots of people died after the clashes of the end of June but the truth is, it didnt. The movement lives in the hundreds new People's Assemblies across the country and in the hearts of all of those that experienced the whole thing from the inside.It lives in all the new faces appearing everyday in the streets looking for an answer, looking for a better future, looking for comrades. It may looks that we lost, but the alarmclock has sounded and we already had our morning coffee. The future is ours.
And what about you guys? Open your eyes and if you are not one of those that are conveniently sitting on their couch watching TV then you can make a small step forward to a world a little bit more free. You never know what will come from this protests. But its something for sure and better than nothing.
One small step from all of us, will be a huge step for humanity
I, a poor guy from Greece, send my greetings and solidarity!
Keep it up. Stay strong!
;)
saludos
From Syntagma S...
I agree with you with the "The reason these things had any effect elsewhere is because when people were told to move, they said NO" but you never know how this will end. Even if the police sends away everyone it wont be a nothing protest. It will be something to be used in the future as experience. The near future i hope.
For now, you have no idea how encouraging it is for lots of people, inside or far away from America, to see any kind of action in the homeland of this system of consumers and corporations!
The "indignados" movement of Greece for lots of people died after the clashes of the end of June but the truth is, it didnt. The movement lives in the hundreds new People's Assemblies across the country and in the hearts of all of those that experienced the whole thing from the inside.It lives in all the new faces appearing everyday in the streets looking for an answer, looking for a better future, looking for comrades. It may looks that we lost, but the alarmclock has sounded and we already had our morning coffee. The future is ours.
And what about you guys? Open your eyes and if you are not one of those that are conveniently sitting on their couch watching TV then you can make a small step forward to a world a little bit more free. You never know what will come from this protests. But its something for sure and better than nothing.
One small step from all of us, will be a huge step for humanity
I, a poor guy from Greece, send my greetings and solidarity!
Keep it up. Stay strong!
;)
saludos
THEGLOBALMOVEMENT
Friends, the global community is awake and taking action now. The reason I have been posting stories of world affairs, true knowledge, and positive vibes is because THIS IS THE REVOLUTION.
It is televised. www.theglobalmovement.info
If you wish to be heard in this NEW RENAISSANCE-
Please come to LIBERTY PARK on trinity ave NYC, NY.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23rd 2011 @ Noon the March begins.
It continues on every day and night since the 17th.
And it will not END until this is all changed now.
THEGLOBALMOVEMENT
Friends, the global community is awake and taking action now. The reason I have been posting stories of world affairs, true knowledge, and positive vibes is because THIS IS THE REVOLUTION.
It is televised. www.theglobalmovement.info
If you wish to be heard in this NEW RENAISSANCE-
Please come to LIBERTY PARK on trinity ave NYC, NY.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23rd 2011 @ Noon the March begins.
It continues on every day and night since the 17th.
And it will not END until this is all changed now.
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