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
You are not going to do anything you worthless hippies. The cops are not afraid of you. The only problem in this country is the youth are spoiled rotten. Maybe we should lose are high standard of living so you will appreciate what you have. If you want a job go pick fruit and learn how good you got it.
Anonymous
You are not going to do anything you worthless hippies. The cops are not afraid of you. The only problem in this country is the youth are spoiled rotten. Maybe we should lose are high standard of living so you will appreciate what you have. If you want a job go pick fruit and learn how good you got it.
Anonymous
I work hard everyday and am paid far less than I probably deserve, but you know what? I know I have it good. The problem though, is I know full well that myself and many others could have it so much better if wealth and resources were distributed more fairly. And yes, before you go on to the whole screedo about how life is unfair, get this -- we live in a nation where we plow under, burn, and throw away enough food to feed every American at least 2,750 calories everyday. That is absolutely unacceptable given we have 1 in 8 adults starving, and 1 in 4 children suffering from hunger in this nation. Sure, I'd love to go pick fruit, milk a cow, butch a pig, or reap grain, but how do I know that it won't just be tossed to ensure corporate profits?
We talk about ending welfare in this country, how about we end the welfare for corporations to waste, steal, cheat, lie, and ravage our planet before we end social safety net programs? How about we also stop giving our hard earned money or outsourcing our jobs to foreign nations that are propped up and have higher qualities of life than we do so that corporate interests can keep ravaging our populace?
We'd all work, if there was work to be had!
Anonymous
I work hard everyday and am paid far less than I probably deserve, but you know what? I know I have it good. The problem though, is I know full well that myself and many others could have it so much better if wealth and resources were distributed more fairly. And yes, before you go on to the whole screedo about how life is unfair, get this -- we live in a nation where we plow under, burn, and throw away enough food to feed every American at least 2,750 calories everyday. That is absolutely unacceptable given we have 1 in 8 adults starving, and 1 in 4 children suffering from hunger in this nation. Sure, I'd love to go pick fruit, milk a cow, butch a pig, or reap grain, but how do I know that it won't just be tossed to ensure corporate profits?
We talk about ending welfare in this country, how about we end the welfare for corporations to waste, steal, cheat, lie, and ravage our planet before we end social safety net programs? How about we also stop giving our hard earned money or outsourcing our jobs to foreign nations that are propped up and have higher qualities of life than we do so that corporate interests can keep ravaging our populace?
We'd all work, if there was work to be had!
Anonymous
Keep shilling for your slavedrivers. You losers won't be able to look future generations in the eye when they ask, "Grandpa, what did you do when the banks robbed the country?" Are you really happy with the way things are going in this country? Didn't think so.
Anonymous
Keep shilling for your slavedrivers. You losers won't be able to look future generations in the eye when they ask, "Grandpa, what did you do when the banks robbed the country?" Are you really happy with the way things are going in this country? Didn't think so.
financial dissident
now it is the time to get an end to the capitalism and bankers otocracy....
financial dissident
now it is the time to get an end to the capitalism and bankers otocracy....
Anonymous
Nothings wrong with Capitalism, what did you have in mind, Cuban, Chinese or Russian style system to replace the "Evil Capitalism". Most Americans don`t hate the system except the very poor and the spoiled rich white kids who have nothing better to do. The majority of Americans will defend America Sovereignty and Capitalism with there votes and guns. Nothing is going to change into the way you want it.
Anonymous
Nothings wrong with Capitalism, what did you have in mind, Cuban, Chinese or Russian style system to replace the "Evil Capitalism". Most Americans don`t hate the system except the very poor and the spoiled rich white kids who have nothing better to do. The majority of Americans will defend America Sovereignty and Capitalism with there votes and guns. Nothing is going to change into the way you want it.
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