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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ky farmer
MR. PRESIDENT "TEAR DOWN THAT WALL-STREET"
ky farmer
MR. PRESIDENT "TEAR DOWN THAT WALL-STREET"
Anonymous
It saddens and sickens me to see the negativity and ignorance of these comments. Some of us "spoiled rotten youth" have been working since we were 15 years old and living paycheck to paycheck ever since.
We see the disparity of wealth, the bailouts of corporate fatcats, the disgusting amount of waste and over-consumption this superficial society produces and dream of something better, a world without these oppressive authoritarian systems of capitalism, government, corporatism, religion.
We have been on the streets for years, as angry teens, as cynical, jaded 20-somethings. We were in Seattle, in Miami, in NYC, in St. Paul, in Toronto. We are Generation X and Generation Y forming a chromosome of rebellion that will evolve into a full fledged revolution because for years we have said enough, people not profit, ya basta! and we are SICK and TIRED of being IGNORED by the mainstream press, dismissed as "angry suburban youth" or "self-proclaimed anarchists", or commies, hippies, spoiled kids, whatever archaic demonizing label you want to put on us. We understand that this system, this current paradigm is not sustainable and we WILL create a better world for us and all future generations to come, by whatever means at our disposal.
WE DO NOT FORGIVE
WE DO NOT FORGET
UNITED AS ONE
DIVIDED BY ZERO
EXPECT US
Anonymous
It saddens and sickens me to see the negativity and ignorance of these comments. Some of us "spoiled rotten youth" have been working since we were 15 years old and living paycheck to paycheck ever since.
We see the disparity of wealth, the bailouts of corporate fatcats, the disgusting amount of waste and over-consumption this superficial society produces and dream of something better, a world without these oppressive authoritarian systems of capitalism, government, corporatism, religion.
We have been on the streets for years, as angry teens, as cynical, jaded 20-somethings. We were in Seattle, in Miami, in NYC, in St. Paul, in Toronto. We are Generation X and Generation Y forming a chromosome of rebellion that will evolve into a full fledged revolution because for years we have said enough, people not profit, ya basta! and we are SICK and TIRED of being IGNORED by the mainstream press, dismissed as "angry suburban youth" or "self-proclaimed anarchists", or commies, hippies, spoiled kids, whatever archaic demonizing label you want to put on us. We understand that this system, this current paradigm is not sustainable and we WILL create a better world for us and all future generations to come, by whatever means at our disposal.
WE DO NOT FORGIVE
WE DO NOT FORGET
UNITED AS ONE
DIVIDED BY ZERO
EXPECT US
Anonymous
Hear-hear!
Anonymous
Hear-hear!
Anonymous
Agreed... Keep it up! Someone needs to start the revolution that is simmering and ready to boil over..
Anonymous
Agreed... Keep it up! Someone needs to start the revolution that is simmering and ready to boil over..
kathalee
I wish I could hop on the next plane to New York and go to #OccupyWallStreet but I'm supporting here in San Francisco! My heart goes out to you ! #TakeBackWallStreet !! Why is life a bitch? Cus we don't tax the rich! :]
kathalee
I wish I could hop on the next plane to New York and go to #OccupyWallStreet but I'm supporting here in San Francisco! My heart goes out to you ! #TakeBackWallStreet !! Why is life a bitch? Cus we don't tax the rich! :]
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