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by JackRiddler » Fri May 25, 2012 11:52 pm
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Weekend Edition May 25-27, 2012
Of Property and Propaganda
Black Bloc Anarchists and State Terrorism
by ROB URIE
Renewed criticism of Black Bloc anarchists (link) ties in a tangential way to the arrest on terrorism charges of three youths in Chicago prior to recent anti-NATO protests. The anarchists raise the question of the legitimate use of violence to achieve political ends. The arrest of the youths on trumped-up charges with what credible sources (National Lawyers Guild) believe is manufactured evidence suggests that as far as the state is concerned, they’re going to make up charges anyway. So what is the difference?
Terrorism charges have long been used for political repression because they are premised on the legitimacy of state violence versus the illegitimacy of non-state violence. But the question of legitimacy was in fair measure the reason why anti-NATO protesters were in Chicago. Member states claim the right, through NATO, to commit political violence at will. The protesters, rightly in my view, counter that (1) the reasons given by NATO for committing violence are lies intended to deceive populations into supporting armed aggression and (2) were the real reasons for NATO violence given they would be deemed illegitimate and therefore the violence itself is illegitimate.
Criticism of Black Bloc tends to center around public relations– the fear the media will focus on property damage to the exclusion of the protesters’ broader message. But the dominant media in the U.S. are corporations that have demonstrated that they will promote a broad corporatist agenda at all costs. The Chicago Police Department and the coordinated state “security” apparatus understand this and they are using terrorism charges as propaganda to try to draw a line between protesters and the growing millions of disenfranchised citizens.
The state knows from experience that when it comes to “terrorism” the dominant corporate media will report what the state tells it, most probably with more sensationalism than the state could hope for. So to those worried that Black Bloc generates bad publicity, the government / media line is all bullshit all of the time anyway. And Black Bloc neither causes this nor will “polite” behavior by protesters produce favorable media treatment, particularly if protests begin to become politically effective.
To the issue of property damage, this is a right wing canard. Were the state and media interested in property damage we have Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Here at home we have millions of empty houses and destroyed neighborhoods thanks to specific, actionable crimes committed by specific banks and bankers that the government is protecting. Then there is the world-threatening environmental damage produced by specific corporate actors that are also being protected by the government. So to Black Bloc critics worried about property damage, ending state violence by asking politely that the state stop committing it runs into the paradox that the state is using political violence to crack open the heads of the protesters who are politely asking that the state stop committing political violence.
State violence deemed illegitimate calls into question the very premise of terror charges—if state violence is not in all circumstances legitimate then how can non-state violence to end illegitimate state violence in all circumstances be illegitimate? The states’ public position, articulated by recent presidents, is that protesters have every right to peacefully protest the use of illegitimate violence by the state. But as a purveyor of illegitimate violence, what right does the state retain to claim that legitimacy distinguishes state from non-state violence? The state is either forced into the profoundly undemocratic position that its legitimacy is self-generated, and therefore not a function of the consent of the people, or that its legitimacy does derive from the consent of the people and therefore when that consent is withdrawn, so is the states’ legitimacy.
The issue of consent, or rather its absence, gets to the very heart of the protesters’ criticism of NATO. If the U.S. state, under the guise of NATO, the ‘coalition of the willing,” or any other umbrella group, actively deceives the public to gain support for acts of political violence, then in what sense can consent be said to have been given? And if consent hasn’t been given, in what sense is the state violence legitimate? Finally, if state violence isn’t legitimate, under its own legal premises, neither then are terrorism charges.
So on to Black Bloc: the anarchists’ inclination toward radical democracy has resonance across the social / political movements that have arisen in recent years. So in the most fundamental sense, there is at this level general agreement amongst us. The difference seems to be one of tactics. Was there a playbook, a guide, to successfully creating social and political change, it would also be in the hands of those who oppose change. No one of us knows where collective political action will take us. My suggestion is that inclusion is better than exclusion, particularly when there is at some level a coincidence of interests.
The state and corporate media will make up any lies they deem necessary to shut effective political opposition down. However, the disenfranchisement that leads to political opposition to the plutocrat-state is factually a product of the plutocrats and their servants in government, and not the protesters. This is to say that the forces of effective propaganda are on the side of the state but the facts of political, economic and social disenfranchisement are with the forces of change. And the facts will ultimately determine if change will come, not the turgid nonsense put out by the corporate media. Property will come and go. As long as Black Bloc is on the side of people, they have a place.
Rob Urie is an artist and political economist in New York
by 2012 Countdown » Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:22 am
by JackRiddler » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:24 pm
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August 15, 2012
What the New York Times Missed
Oakland: Incubator for Meaningful Local Politics
by DARWIN BOND-GRAHAM
Oakland, California.
The New York Times Magazine’s recent feature on Oakland — “the last refuge of radical America”— seemed to have one overriding purpose: to convince the rest of the nation that Oakland’s uniquely strong social movements are a quirk with no relevance to the rest of America. Don’t try this at home. Reporter Jonathan Mahler and his editor seemed to be operating under a directive to undermine any notion that the Occupy Movement’s specific trajectory in this West Coast city can provide models for politics elsewhere.
Instead, Mahler and the Times depict a city paralyzed by dysfunctional politicians and activists, a sort of zoo in which the loony remainders of a broken American Left are allowed to play amidst the wreckage of a post-industrial economy. The Occupy Movement is caricatured as a brawling child interested only in irrational running street battles with the police. Gentrification, the further impoverishment of the city’s working class, and displacement of its Black, Latino, and Asian communities is inevitable, we are told. Get used to it.
Locally Mahler’s article has been given the birdcage treatment. It’s such an obviously sloppy and uninformed rant to most of us who live in Oakland or who have carefully studied the region’s politics. The downside is that because it was printed in the Times’ Magazine, the glossy paper doesn’t work well even for cleaning up pet waste. The other downside, the serious one, is that the Times’ coverage may have been somewhat effective in its political purpose on the national level. Many readers unfamiliar with Oakland or the Bay Area have probably accepted the narrative about kooky radicals and the city they’re tearing apart from the inside even as capital radically transforms parts of it into a bobo paradise.
Davey D, an Oakland-based journalist and deeply informed commentator on the city’s political scene penned an excellent response to Mahler’s article just days after its publication. According to Davey D, the New York Times article, “in no way describes what people are all about here in Oakland. It diminishes the true grind that organizers put in day-in and day-out to improve their community and better this city. Those who take direct action in the face of oppression do so because they have little or no choice. It’s not something to be romanticized, it’s not a game, even if this writer came across a few individuals who thought it was.”
Davey D goes on to describe the big omission from Mahler’s piece, the lack of any information or analysis about the major preexisting social movement in Oakland through which Occupy and any current political mobilizations must be understood: the Oscar Grant Rebellion. It’s an almost criminal omission from the Times’ feature coverage of Oakland because without understanding the conflict between Oakland’s flatland communities and the police department, and how the Oakland Police Department is at the center of virtually every problem the city confronts, from debt to economic under-development, one simply can’t make sense of the what’s going on here.
So Mahler and the Times, in their laziness, their cynicism, or perhaps it was a malevolent desire to slander genuinely radical political struggles, took the easy route, and wrote a fantasy story designed to lead readers to one conclusion: Oakland is a place where crazy people with quaint 20th Century ideologies do things that have no meaning or application to politics elsewhere. Neoliberal urban transformation is unstoppable.
Another informed and responsible writer based in the East Bay, Alex Schafran, responded to Mahler’s article by calling it a “hit piece,” as in an assassination attempt. “Mahler is profoundly uninterested in understanding Oakland, or even in truly understanding his surface goal, which is to explain the vitality of Occupy and various forms of ‘radical’ street protest in Oakland,” writes Schafran. “Mahler, like far too many people who write about cities, is simply using Oakland to make a broader argument about politics and society.” “Mahler sees those who would dream of a more equal city as fools,” concludes Schafran about the Times’ coverage.
Back in October of last year my impression of Occupy Oakland was that while it was certainly a local manifestation of the Occupy Wall Street movement and was running with some of its slogans and energy, Oaklanders had dispensed with distant targets like Wall Street and Washington from the very start, focusing instead on the problems it could actually address. As I reported for CounterPunch then: “from the very beginning Occupy Oakland took a radical stance and localized the terms of struggle. At the first rally cries of ‘fuck the police’ peppered comments equally critical of local government and powerful Bay Area corporations which have pressed harmful budget cuts upon Oaklanders”.
Occupy Oakland was never about the boring liberal politics of advocating for change from the federal government or other distant forces that could only be appealed to with signs and slogans and moral suasion. For those who have taken part in it, Oakland’s most recent wave of protests was always about taking direct action to confront the immediate and real problems Oaklanders are facing, not just because of the financial crisis, but because of decades of disinvestment, police militarization, and austerity measures imposed by local politicians. Oaklanders were contesting the shut down schools, shuttered libraries, derelict parks, and the policies that have left much of the city in a state of disrepair.
This week a group of activist reopened a former library in a flatlands neighborhood off International Boulevard in Oakland’s sprawling east, in just another local direct action that will otherwise escape national attention. Naming it the “Victor Martinez People’s Library,” the building’s new tenants quickly cleaned graffiti from the walls and removed piles of garbage that had accumulated on the site after years of illegal dumping on the derelict city property. The activists, who didn’t say they were part of Occupy Oakland, although some familiar faces were peppered amongst the group, released a statement:
“If you live in this community, we only ask that you think about how you can use this building. Name it anything you like. Purpose it to any goal that benefits the community—library, social or political neighborhood center. The grounds can even be used for a community garden, where we can grow healthy food in a food desert neighborhood. All we ask is that you keep it out of the hands of a city which will only seal the fence and doors again, turning the space back into an aggregator of the city’s trash and a dark hole in the middle of an embattled community. The doors here are opened. And there are many other simply waiting to be.”
By 5pm the new Victor Martinez Library was bustling with dozens of people, many of them young activists, the sorts derided by the New York Times for their idealism and dreams of a more equitable city. Handfuls of neighbors trickled in and out of the building curiously looking over the scene, chatting with the library’s liberators who were busying themselves with sweeping and other chores. Children from nearby houses ran in and out of the library and its yard. A mother and her two daughters who lived in a house nearby shyly told me they’d like to see the reopened library become a place for children to safely gather and play. There is no park or playground close by; the neighborhood around Miller Avenue and International instead is dotted with auto shops, industrial supply warehouses, apartment buildings, and dangerously busy streets.
A man standing out front is busy giving an impromptu lecture about the building’s history. “During the Chicano movement in the early 1970s this was closed as a library, so the community took it over and turned it into a school,” said Jose Rivera, a Richmond resident who grew up in the neighborhood. “Between roughly 1973 and 1988 or 89 this was one of the community schools, Emiliano Zapata Street Acadamy, that was created by the movement to educate our youth. People know all about the history of the Black Panthers and the anti-war movement in Oakland, but there was also a powerful Chicano movement that made changes here.”
Rivera, a scholar of the Chicano movement in Oakland, is carrying copies of articles, maps, and other documents he’s researched that provide some insights into the neighborhood’s past, and specifically the old library’s role in previous social movements. A San Francisco Examiner article from May 12, 1982 he hands me describes the Street Academy as “an experimental school,” and the direct product of the Chicano movement’s direct action-oriented politics. Classes discussed current events affecting their communities and made studies relevant to the troubles confronting youth.
“In a basement one recent day civics teacher Bernard Stringer led a spirited discussion on the Immigration and Naturalization Service,” reads the Examiner piece.
“‘What did the INS do this week?’ Stringer asked, his voice booming out at his nine eager students.”
“‘They were swooping down,’ said one of his students referring to the recent INS roundup of [undocumented immigrants].’”
“‘What were they swooping down for?’ asked Stringer.”
“‘Because people had jobs but they didn’t have their green cards,’ the students replied.”
Countering recent ICE raids against workers in Berkeley, and raids targeting the Mexican and Central American communities of East Oakland has been a major focus of activists in the Bay Area, just another important part of Oakland’s current politics that was omitted from the recent Times’ coverage.
When the Emiliano Zapata Street Acadamy moved away to its current location, the building at 1449 Miller Street was more or less abandoned by the city. It had successfully incubated a community school that still exists, but the 1990s and 2000s was a decade in which the old Carnegie Library sat mostly empty, its façade falling apart, and the grounds around it accumulating trash.
To an outsider unfamiliar with Oakland’s history the building’s newest incarnation as the Victor Martinez People’s Library could seem like just another direct action carried out by Occupy Movement activists, but couched in Oakland’s long and productive history of social movements it’s obviously something more. There’s continuity in the struggle to save and reopen libraries as a means of improving neighborhoods and empowering communities.
Upon leaving the library last night I approached three young men standing on the corner across from the scene who were passing a blunt around and surveying the scene. “How long do you think this will last?” I asked them.
“I hope it last forever,” said one of them with an earnestness that surprised me. “We need a library in this neighborhood. The closest one is way out in Fruitvale, the Cesar Chavez branch, or else you have to go all the way downtown.”
Another one of the youngsters said with equal seriousness, “a book can save a life.”
“So you guys think this can succeed, the community will use it?”
They nodded their heads affirmatively and pointed at a little boy rolling past the new library on his scooter.
“The city spends all their money on cops and they don’t have any left over to run things like this,” one of them said.
It was an observation also noted by one of the activists earlier in the day. “Larry Reid, chair of the council said he’d rather have cut libraries and other services two years ago, rather than lay off police officers,” said the organizer in front of the new library.
Indeed, Reid told the San Francisco Chronicle recently that he and his fellow city councilors “could have made cuts in other areas without laying off 80 police officers,” but concluded that “the political will was not there”.
Just before midnight last evening the Oakland police swooped in. Evicting the activists the cops boarded up the Victor Martinez People’s Library. In less than 24 hours this place has been transformed from an abandoned Carnegie library into a busy community center, and back into a “dark hole in the middle of an embattled community.”
But in taking it over, even if it was a brief occupation, the building has been transformed into a potent symbol of political conflict and priorities, stemming back to the Chicano movement’s efforts to create a more just and equitable city, revived by a current crop of activists.
Darwin Bond-Graham is a sociologist and author who lives and works in Oakland, CA. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, forthcoming from AK Press.
by JackRiddler » Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:34 am
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The timing couldn’t possibly be better in the final days before our S17 anniversary for the 99% and Occupy Wall Street to be able to declare a big victory.
After an escalating week-long #OccupyHotNCrusty campaign in response to a serious labor dispute, workers announced both sides had reached an agreement over the weekend. Direct attacks on the newly formed independent union of Hot & Crusty workers were met with an occupation of the store by workers and members of Occupy Wall Street alongside a 24 hour picket outside, and although we need to keep the pressure on, this has already become a wonderful precedent for the power of solidarity between local labor unions, community members, and Occupy.
Moreover, not only does this news come on the horizon of S17, but also at the birth of another such opportunity to display a collaborative spirit for bold action in this manner.
The Teachers of Chicago now engaged in the #CTUstrike need our support, and their fight is as clear an example as any about how All Roads Lead to Wall Street.
The OWS Labor Outreach working group has already lent their support to one such action this past Monday, with a follow up action coming at 5pm Thursday sending the message that NYC Stands in Solidarity with Chicago Teachers. Text @ctsc2012 to 23559 to receive the latest updates.
And while we are reflecting on the foundation we have built over the past year, let us be reminded that when we work together, it absolutely is possible that we can win.
--- from the Your Inbox: Occupied Team
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Anniversary Schedule: We have a full weekend of activities planned from civil disobedience to permitted concerts to trainings and teach ins. Oh and sign making
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S17 Day of Action: Bring business attire to wear on the 17th. We will disrupt business as usual in the financial district by blockading the Stock Exchange and surrounding intersections with multiple actions all morning and assemblies in afternoon and evening. Get prepped with our Action and Know Your Rights Training Schedule
Transportation: We are encouraging folks to find their own transportation. We have resources listed on the Transportation page about rideshares, Amtrak discounts, buses, and information about parking.
Housing: If you register on the s17 registration form and indicate that you need housing, you will be sent all of the address and all the info you need. If you haven’t heard back from us, please email support@s17nyc.org.
Actions & Events Building #S17 Momentum
Wednesday, September 12th, 6:00pm
Help Build the People’s Wall
Liberty Plaza
In building this blockade, we will — symbolically and literally — open space for the 99 Revolutions to emerge, and set the stage for the Storm Wall Street convergence. These actions work together, as essential parts of a greater whole. Can’t make the Wednesday training? The People’s Wall has a schedule of trainings, a map and all sorts of useful info!
Wednesday, September 12th, 6:00pm
Keep the Pressure on Hot N Crusty
63rd Street and 2nd Avenue
There is a tentative agreement between the Hot & Crusty Workers Association and the new owners of the Hot & Crusty located at 63rd St. and 2nd Ave. over recognizing the union immediately. Join 99 Pickets in a show of solidarity to help with their negotiations toward a collective bargaining agreement.
Thursday, September 13th, 3:00pm
Guitarmy to Occupy Bronx Criminal Courthouse for Graham family
Leaving Union Square, 3pm. Arrival at Bronx Courthouse 215 E 161st Street at 7pm
Occupy Guitarmy will join the family of Ramarley Graham at the start of the trial of the NYPD officer charged with the killing of their son. The Occupy group wishes to highlight the confluence of policing problems evident in the tragedy of Ramarley Graham: an out of control surveillance state, lack of proper police training, racial profiling, unlawful entry, and unwarranted use of lethal force.
Thursday, September 13th, 5:00pm
Chicago Teachers Strike Solidarity
DFER, 928 Broadway Office Building
Wear Red! We will be holding a picket and rally at the offices of Democrats for Education Reform, a lobbying group made up of hedge fund executives working to privatize public education. Event sponsored by the Movement of Rank-and-File Educators (MORE) and the Occupy Wall Street Labor Outreach Committee.
Thursday, September 13th, 8:00pm
Weekly #TweetBoat Meeting - All in for #S17!
Join the #OWS social media collective for our weekly meeting to tweet together and strategize for #S17. We'll be focusing on tactical media for the weekend celebration of OWS's One- Year anniversary!
Thursday, September 13th - 16th
Stages of Occupy: A Theatre Event in Celebration of OWS’s Anniversary
Stages of Occupy came together for S17 to provide a series of interactive theatre pieces sharing experiences and exploring the crucial themes of economic and social justice. Join us for performance and dialogue about how occupy can devise options for taking action to continue the momentum of the movement.
Thursday, September 13th, 10:00pm
#Sleepful Protest Bedtime Skillshare & Community Assembly
Liberty Plaza
Thinking of engaging in a #SleepfulProtest? Join #OWS & members of the #TrinitySleeps community for an informal evening gathering of storytime, know your rights training, community service & safe space creation.
Friday, September 14th, 6:45am
Wake up Wall Street 5
Hilton Hotel, 6th Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets
Money in politics at its worst: $50,000 a table fundraiser is being held for the Romney campaign. Then next week on S18 we will hit a 40,000 a plate Obama fundraiser at 40-40 hosted by Jay -Z.
Friday, September 14th, 6pm
S17 Affinity Group Spokescouncil 5
55 Water Street
Imagine a World Without Wall Street. Come to the S17 Affinity Group Spokescouncil 5. Learn about the action framework, choose targets, and make friends. If you're coming in from out of town check out the conference system.
Actions & Events Building Off #S17 Momentum
September 18th - 22nd
Occupy your Education with the Free University Week
The Free University of NYC will host a week of free educational courses and events in Madison Square Park. Bringing
together people from around the world, Free University will advocate for education as a human right and demonstrate our ability to implement free education for all.
Tuesday, September 18th, 9am
All Pipelines Lead to Wall Street
Assembly Point: Brecht Forum, Bank Street and 451 West St
ALL HANDS ON DECK for a visual uprising! Expect hijinks, be prepared to have a blast!
Wednesday, September 19th, 7pm
Unorganized Workers General Assembly
Madison Square Park
This is an assembly for those of us who are unorganized where we can talk about our experience at work as well as think about building power there. We in Occupy Your Workplace think you can make fundamental change in the world in part by starting with organizing in your workplace.
Thursday, September 20th, 7pm
United in Anger: A Conversation Between Act UP & Occupy
Abrons Art Center
Join us for a free screening of the new film United in Anger and learn about the history, tactics and impact of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. The screening will be followed by an open conversation between members of Act Up and Occupy to draw connections, share skills, compare strategies, reflect on our mutual past and gear up for future struggles.
September 20th - 23rd
Occupy Social Media Un-Conference
Battery Park
This four day gathering comes on the heels of the Occupy Wall Street’s one year anniversary & will bring together some of the movement’s most dynamic voices to discuss Economic Inequality as it is expressed in the lack of access to basic digital tools by the 99%.
Our #S17 convergence in NYC is fast approaching. In the meantime, you can join us and help by: watching and sharing the Call to Action video, checking out the schedule of events from September 15-17", distributing outreach materials to get the word out, or by digging in that much deeper through the S17nyc InterOccupy hub. We are sending this to you because of your ongoing support and participation in Occupy Wall Street, which you expressed when you gave us your email at an Occupy event or registered on NYCGA.net.
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by 2012 Countdown » Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:26 am
At least 50 NYPD in riot gear at Pine & William #S17NYC pic.twitter.com/IlBuOLs1
A number of buildings sprang for extra security, goons chilling in the vestibules. Checkpoint at Exchange/Broadway moving along.
Crazy looking checkpoint at the Federal Reserve. Looks like a dark tinted bus stop. Copters keep the beat overhead. #S17NYC
Over 40 riot #nypd arrive 55 Water #ows #s17 #s17nyc
SADYE L. VASSIL @SADYELVASSIL
All of our grievances are connected #ows #s17nyc http://instagr.am/p/PrRU--uzh3/
1m small affair @small_affair
Protesters sitting down in street #OWS #OCAM #s17nyc ( @anonoccubloc live at http://ustre.am/O2DV)
1m خيمة الانتفاضة @IntifadaTent
Getting dispersal order from the sidewalk for obstructing pedestrian traffic. #s17 #S17NYC http://pic.twitter.com/5RimPYlh
2m Gio Andollo @GioSafari
Lots more being arrested including medics and press. WITNESS #S17NYC Pine & Nassau #S17 #OWS
2m Chepe☭ @sabokitty
Broadeay/Wall, once cleared of dissident blockades, is now a heavily guarded checkpoint. #s17 #S17NYC
2m cliff potts @cliffpotts
RT @giosafari: At least 10 arrested including medics at Pine & Nassau.. NOW #S17NYC #OWS #S17 http://pic.twitter.com/rlvZBuav
3m ImminentInsurrection @PROLETARI4N
Lash from #OccupyDC has been arrested. #OWS #S17 #S17NYC
4m Occupy Chicago Bot @OccupyChicagoRT
RT @Jayron26 Masses surrounding stock exchange now. It must be October 1929. #OO #S17NYC #OWS #OCHI
@TimcastAt least 10 arrested including medics at Pine & Nassau.. NOW #S17NYC #OWS #S17 [url]http://pic.twitter.com/Xzqgz0f6”[/url]
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Federal Cox @Federal_flashes
POLICE CHARGING, PUNCHING, AND ATTACKING PEACEFUL PROTESTORS. #EXESSIVEUSEOFFORCE #S17 http://instagr.am/p/Prbc4dQCQK/
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Police beat people at Broadway and Morris shoes strewn about the ground #s17 #ows http://yfrog.com/h63e4uoj
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#s17 chaotic, protest milling everywhere, police arresting, clubbing people at random. Can hear chanting from #freemollycrabapple home base
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RT @batmanwi: People in wheelchairs just blocked broadway and liberty. #s17 http://pic.twitter.com/38P3sp4X
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People in wheelchairs just blocked broadway and liberty. #s17 http://pic.twitter.com/Oz3NlF3s
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RT @nrcars: SO many people in the streets of New York right now. Estimates attendance is approaching May Day 2012 of 50,000. #s17 #ows # ...
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Today is 225th anniversary of Constitution. People here continue to fight for those rights here in Lower Manhattan this morning. #S17 #OWS
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MT @OccupySteve Helicopters hovering overhead. Barricades and checkpoints line every street. NYC is officially a police state. #S17 #OWS
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Arresting officer Plouffe. Badge number 25100 #s17
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Cops occupying the financial district #s17 http://pic.twitter.com/yFYuwr0C
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We stand up against global capitalism this morning. There is a better way. We all know this #s17 #occupy
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#S17 sign: "to sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men" - Abraham Lincoln
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Helicopters hovering overhead. New York is officially a police state. Barricades and checkpoints line every street. #S17 #OWS
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NYPD announced if people are standing, they are arrestable; protesters on the move. http://yfrog.com/g0iwdlij #ows #s17
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YFrog 6:57 AM - 17 Sep 12 · Details 2h kyle crane @kylecrane @patrickdehahn then it's time to start DANCING! #S17 #occupyjazzstreet
Details Expand Collapse Reply RetweetedRetweet Delete FavoritedFavorite 2h PeterSmirniotopoulos @PSmirn @patrickdehahn Guess I missed memo from #MayorNapoleon suspending #ConstitutionalRight of #FreeAssembly #DemocracyForEveryoneButAmericans
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2h Jamie Kilstein @jamiekilstein
Glad all those cops showed up on Wall Street to finally hold the bankers accountable.... #s17 @occupywallst @occupywallstnyc
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FavoritedFavorite 3h Tia Keenan @kasekaiserina
Go #ows it's your birthday, you're gonna protest like its you're birthday #s17
1m Carrie M @CarrieM213
Radical street theater happening at Bowling Green. #ows #s17 http://twitpic.com/avnxwq
by 2012 Countdown » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:56 am
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