#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

[Peachtree Pam]

[Bruce Dazzling]

Judge just ruled Bloomberg and NYPD's evictions were unlawful!!!!!

Restraining order allows Occupants to return to Zuccotti!

A New York judge on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order allowing protesters to return to Zuccotti Park only hours after police forcibly removed them, arresting dozens.

The order by Justice Lucy Billings set a hearing date for Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. and said that until the matter was considered at that hearing, the city and Brookfield Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park, would be prohibited from evicting protesters or "enforcing 'rules' published after the occupation began or otherwise preventing protesters from re-entering the park with tents and other property previously utilized."

It was not immediately clear what effect the order would have on the protesters meeting in nearby Foley Square. Some had advocated returning to the park

edited to add quote from NYT Metro page update 8:08 a.m.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/ ... rk-for-now

Here's the judge's order.

[RocketMan]

Judge just ruled Bloomberg and NYPD's evictions were unlawful!!!!!

Restraining order allows Occupants to return to Zuccotti!

A New York judge on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order allowing protesters to return to Zuccotti Park only hours after police forcibly removed them, arresting dozens.

The order by Justice Lucy Billings set a hearing date for Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. and said that until the matter was considered at that hearing, the city and Brookfield Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park, would be prohibited from evicting protesters or "enforcing 'rules' published after the occupation began or otherwise preventing protesters from re-entering the park with tents and other property previously utilized."

It was not immediately clear what effect the order would have on the protesters meeting in nearby Foley Square. Some had advocated returning to the park

edited to add quote from NYT Metro page update 8:08 a.m.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/ ... rk-for-now

[Bruce Dazzling]

I'm sure that they had more important matters to worry about, i.e. jack-booted thugs kicking down their tents in the dark of the night, but in the case of an emergency (like last night) I was on a list to receive text messages notifying me to get my ass to Zuccotti Park.

I received no emergency text messages.

I need to get to work at the moment, but I'll see if I can get some on-the-ground information later on.

[thurnundtaxis]

Great live NYC coverage here:

http://www.ustream.tv/TheOther99

The latest: Trinity Church is allowing OWS use of their land near Canal street as at least a temporary home-base. Also a contingent is planning to move back to Zuccotti to test the ruling and see if the restraining order stands (its technically in effect until 11:30 a.m.) and see if the NYPD will act in contempt of court by not allowing their return.

Very exciting!!!

[Nordic]

Just checked out cnn while drinking my morning joe. They dutifully reported what they had to, then brought in their "medical reporter" to talk about the "mountains of trash and filth" and how it was a "perfect storm" of a health hazard, especially for the protesters themselves, especially with flu season coming on, and *pop* I had to turn off the tv or I was going to throw my coffee cup at it.

Yeah, cnn says the cops were just doing the protesters a favor. Uh-huh ...

[thurnundtaxis]

approx 10:30 a.m.

Cops are refusing to let protesters back into Zuccotti Park. Ustream has gone down due to broadcaster's battery dying. But it did last long enough to show the barricades at the park.

Apparently there will be more breaking events at 11:30 a.m. when the judge will see if Bloomberg and the NYPD can present evidence to back up their actions.

Though it seems to me,from what I understand, the NYPD is acting in contempt of court by not allowing the protesters back in to the park until then.

[Bruce Dazzling]

Joan Baez just performed at Foley Square.

[American Dream]

Poster for N17 Mass Direct Action: Print and Post Freely!

http://occupywallst.org/article/poster- ... ost-freel/







High-quality, print-ready versions (11x17, 15x24, 23x36) are available as a freely downloadable .zip file.

Let's get these posters everywhere! The artist's only stipulation is that they cannot be sold, only given away.

Props to r.black for his amazing work!

Click here for more on November 17 actions planned for NYC.

[thurnundtaxis]

Bruce, I think that Baez performance is a pre-recorded segment that is playing on Tim's UStream account while his live-feed is down due to battery issues.

Someone had offered to go to J&R to buy a new battery. So hopefully the feed will be back shortly.

His twitter account is: http://twitter.com/#!/Iwilloccupy

Though it seems battery issues are preventing those updates as well.

The guy, Tim, has done an incredible job broadcasting for 9 hours straight!!

edited to provide correct link

[Bruce Dazzling]

Bruce, I think that Baez performance is a pre-recorded segment that is playing on Tim's UStream account while his live-feed is down due to battery issues.

Someone had offered to go to J&R to buy a new battery. So hopefully the feed will be back shortly.

His twitter account is called: iwilloccupy

(not sure how to format a direct link)

so i think that's where breaking photos and info will be appearing.

Crap, sorry.

The last I'd heard was that someone gave him a laptop and he was charging his phone while he was still streaming.

Here's a direct link to the iwilloccupy twitter feed.

Carry on.

[Bruce Dazzling]

iwilloccupy

"Police refuse to acknowledge a court order! #occupy #ows"

[undead]

Revolutionary Organization 17 November (Greek: Επαναστατική Οργάνωση 17 Νοέμβρη, Epanastatiki Organosi dekaefta Noemvri), (also known as 17N or N17) was a Marxist urban guerrilla organization (characterized as a terrorist group by the Greek state[1] and the United States[2] and the United Kingdom) formed in 1975 and believed to have been disbanded in 2002 after the arrest and trial of a number of its members. The group assassinated 23 people[3] in 103 attacks on U.S., British, Turkish and Greek targets.

Formation

The group's name, 17N, refers to the final day of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising, in which a protest against the Greek Military Junta (1967–1974), also known as the Regime of the Colonels took place. The uprising was bloodily suppressed by the army. 17N self-identified as Marxist, even Anarchist. In addition to assassinations, kidnappings, and symbolic attacks on corporate and government offices, 17N supported its operations with at least 11 bank robberies netting approximately US$ 3.5 million. Members of 17N kept detailed financial records, found in one of their safe houses in 2002, to document that the stolen money was used for revolutionary purposes.
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Attacks

17N's first attack, on 23 December 1975, was against the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in Athens, Richard Welch. Welch was gunned down outside his residence by four assailants, in front of his wife and driver. 17N's repeated claims of responsibility were ignored until December 1976, when it murdered the former intelligence chief of the Greek security police, Evangelos Mallios and left its proclamation at the scene. In January 1980 17N murdered the deputy director of the riot police (MAT) and his driver. It also intervened with two long proclamations offering theoretical guidance to the Greek armed struggle and criticizing a non-deadly rival group, Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) for poor target selection and operational incompetence.

17N suspended operations shortly before the October 1981 election of Andreas Papandreou, misled by PASOK pledges to evict U.S. military bases and withdraw from NATO. 17N resumed its attacks in November 1983, killing the deputy chief of the U.S. military assistance mission (JUSSMAG) Captain George Tsantes in retaliation for Papandreou's decision to renew the base rights agreement. In 1985 it broadened its targeting with the murder of conservative newspaper publisher Nikos Momferatos. The proclamation left near his body accused Momferatos of CIA connections and complained that Greece "remained a puppet regime in the hands of the American imperialists and the economic establishment." In 1986, 17N murdered Dimitris Angelopoulos, one of Greece's leading industrialists, charging that he and other members of Greece's "lumpen big bourgeoisie class" were plundering Greece at the expense of workers.

17N responded to the 1988 Koskotas scandal with a wave of murders and kidnappings. In the 1989 parliamentary elections 17N urged voters to deface their ballots with the 17N star. The assassination of New Democracy member of parliament Pavlos Bakoyannis in September 1989 prompted public outrage, including among Greek communists who respected Bakoyannis as a courageous anti-Junta journalist. The group abandoned its electoral pretensions and took a more nationalist turn.

Other victims included Captain William Nordeen U.S.N., the U.S. defense attache, whose car was destroyed by a car bomb a few meters from his residence on 28 June 1988, and U.S. Air Force Sergeant Ronald O. Stewart, who was killed by a remotely detonated bomb outside his apartment on 12 March 1991.

In addition to its anti-American and anti-capitalist agenda, the group was also opposed to Turkey and NATO. Çetin Görgü, Turkish press attaché, shot in his car on 7 October 1991; Ömer Haluk Sipahioğlu, Turkish embassy counselor, shot on an Athens street on 4 July 1994; ship and shipyard owner Constantinos Peratikos, shot leaving his office on 28 May 1997; and Brigadier Stephen Saunders on 8 June 2000.

17N used as its "signature weapons" two .45 M1911 semi-automatics.[4] While face-to-face assassination was the early modus operandi, in 1985 the group exploded its first bomb, using a long cable to detonate stolen quarrying explosives, against a bus full of riot police, killing one.

In October 1986 17N bombed four tax offices. This was its first low-level attack against property. In December 1988 17N stole 114 obsolete anti-tank rockets from a poorly guarded Greek military depot. Between 1990 and 1999 17N conducted 24 rocket attacks, all but three of them aimed at property rather than human targets. In November 1990, a rocket attack against the armored limousine of shipowner Vardis Vardinogiannis failed. In 1991, 17N rocketed a riot police bus, killing one officer and wounding 14. In July 1992, a young passerby, Thanos Axarlian, was killed in a failed rocket attack on Economy Minister Ioannis Palaiokrassas.

After their inaugural attack on the CIA station chief, the group tried to get mainstream newspapers to publish their manifesto. Their first proclamation, claiming the murder of Richard Welch, was first sent to "Libération" in Paris, France. It was given to the publisher of "Libération" via the offices of Jean Paul Sartre,[5] but was not published. After subsequent attacks, 17N usually sent a communique to the Eleftherotypia newspaper. The group argued in its communiques that it wanted to rid Greece of U.S. bases, to remove the Turkish military from Cyprus, and to sever Greece's ties to NATO and the European Union.

On 7 April 1998 the group used a stolen anti-armor rocket to attack a downtown branch of the American Citibank, which caused damage but no injuries, as the warhead did not explode.[6] The rocket was fired by remote control from a private car parked outside the bank on Drossopoulou street in the downtown district of Kypseli.[7]

Victims

A list of 17N's known murder and kidnapping victims:[8]

Richard Welch, CIA station chief in Athens. (23 December 1975)

Evangelos Mallios, policeman who was accused of torturing political prisoners during the period of military junta. (14 December 1976)

Pantelis Petrou, deputy commander of the Greek police Riot Control Unit (M.A.T). (16 January 1980)

Sotiris Stamoulis, driver of the above mentioned. (16 January 1980)

George Tsantes, a US Navy Commander, high level executive of JUSMAG (15 November 1983)

Nikos Veloutsos, driver of the above mentioned. (15 November 1983)

Robert Judd, Army Master Sergeant, Postal officer for JUSMAGG in Greece, wounded in an assassination attempt. (3 April 1984)

Christos Matis, police guard, killed in a bank robbery. (24 December 1984)

Nikos Momferatos, publisher of the "Apogevmatini" newspaper. (21 February 1985)

Georgios Roussetis, driver of above mentioned. (21 February 1985)

Nikolaos Georgakopoulos, riot policeman, killed in bus bombing. (26 November 1985)

Dimitrios Aggelopoulos, President of the board of Halyvourgiki S.A.. (8 April 1986)

Zacharias Kapsalakis, doctor and clinic owner, shot in the legs. (4 February 1987)

Alexander Athanasiadis, industrialist. (1 March 1988)

William Nordeen, a US Navy Captain, killed by a car bomb. (23 June 1988)

Constantinos Androulidakis, a public prosecutor, is shot in both legs and dies slowly of complications. (10 January 1989)

Panayiotis Tarasouleas, also a public prosecutor, is shot in both legs. (18 January 1989)

Giorgos Petsos, PASOK MP and Minister, is injured in his car by a car bomb. (8 May 1989)

Pavlos Bakoyannis, New Democracy MP (26 September 1989)

Ronald O. Stewart,a US Air Force Sergeant, killed by a bomb. (13 March 1991)

Deniz Bulukbasi,Turkish Chargé d'Affaires, is injured by a car bomb. (16 July 1991)

Cetin Gorgu, Turkish Press attaché (7 October 1991)

Yiannis Varis, a police officer, is killed in a missile and hand grenade attack against a riot squad bus (2 November 1991)

Athanasios Axarlian, a student passer-by; killed by shrapnel during a rocket attack targeting the limousine of Finance Minister Ioannis Palaiokrassas. (14 July 1992)

Eleftherios Papadimitriou, New Democracy party deputy and MP, is shot in both legs. (21 December 1992)

Michael Vranopoulos, former governor of the National Bank of Greece. (24 January 1994)

Omer Haluk Sipahioglu, counselor of the Turkish Embassy in Athens. (4 July 1994)

Constantinos Peratikos, ship owner, last person to own the shipyards of Skaramangas. (28 May 1997)

Stephen Saunders, military attaché of the British Embassy in Athens. (15 June 2000)

[thurnundtaxis]

12:00 p.m.est

Stream is live again from the outskirts of the park.

Keeps cutting out though.

http://www.ustream.tv/theother99

[undead]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Pol ... c_uprising

On November 14, 1973 students at the Athens Polytechnic (Polytechneion) went on strike and started protesting against the military regime (Regime of the Colonels). As the authorities stood by, the students, calling themselves the "Free Besieged" (Greek: Ελεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι, a reference to a poem by Greek national poet Dionysios Solomos inspired by the Ottoman siege of Mesolonghi), barricaded themselves in and constructed a radio station (using laboratory equipment) that repeatedly broadcast across Athens:

Here is Polytechneion! People of Greece, the Polytechneion is the flag bearer of our struggle and your struggle, our common struggle against the dictatorship and for democracy![1]"

Maria Damanaki, later a politician, was one of the major speakers. Soon thousands of workers and youngsters joined them protesting inside and outside of the "Athens Polytechnic".

In the early hours of November 17, 1973, the transitional government panicked,[2] sending a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic. Soon after that, Spyros Markezinis himself had the humiliating task to request Papadopoulos to re-impose martial law.[2] Prior to the crackdown, the city lights had been shut down, and the area was only lit by the campus lights, powered by the university generators. An AMX 30 Tank (still kept in a small armored unit museum in a military camp in Avlonas, not open to the public) crashed the rail gate of the Athens Polytechnic at around 03:00am. In unclear footage clandestinely filmed by a Dutch journalist, the tank is shown bringing down the main steel entrance to the campus to which people were clinging. Documentary evidence also survives, in recordings of the "Athens Polytechnic" radio transmissions from the occupied premises. In these a young man's voice is heard desperately asking the soldiers (whom he calls 'brothers in arms') surrounding the building complex to disobey the military orders and not to fight 'brothers protesting'. The voice carries on to an emotional outbreak, reciting the lyrics of the Greek National Anthem, until the tank enters the yard, at which time transmission ceases.

According to an official investigation undertaken after the fall of the Junta, no students of Athens Polytechnic were killed during the incident. Total recorded casualties amount to 24 civilians killed outside Athens Polytechnic campus. These include 19-year old Michael Mirogiannis, reportedly shot to death by officer G. Dertilis, high-school students Diomedes Komnenos and Alexandros Spartidis of Lycee Leonin, and a five-year-old boy caught in the crossfire in the suburb of Zografou. The records of the trials held following the collapse of the Junta document the circumstances of the deaths of many civilians during the uprising, and although the number of dead has not been contested by historical research, it remains a subject of political controversy. In addition, hundreds of civilians were left injured during the events.[3]

Ioannides' involvement in inciting unit commanders of the security forces to commit criminal acts during the Athens Polytechnic uprising was noted in the indictment presented to the court by the prosecutor during the Greek junta trials and in his subsequent conviction in the Polytechneion trial where he was found to have been morally responsible for the events.