Tim Pool is reporting that Foley Square is FULL of protesters. Striking CUNY students are being joined by Unions. Tim is marching with others to join the people gathered at Foley Square. Police are trying to cut their routes off it seems.
Protesters yelling "Bloomberg beware, Zucotti Park is everywhere!"
Tim is streaming (by my calculation, from both his Ustream channel and GlobalRevolution) to almost 40,000 people.
Can You Hear Me Now? "99%" Projected Onto Side of Verizon Building By Steven Thrasher Thu., Nov. 17 2011 at 6:56 PM Categories: Architecture, Awesome New York Signage, Can You Hear Me Now?, Nick Pinto, Occupy Wall Street, Photography, Protest, Steven Thrasher
I tried to go to our bridge action today. The announcements said it would take place at the Montlake bridge so that's where I went. There were half a dozen people there and two dozen police. Even the police were giving up and leaving so I just got on the next bus and came home.
Now on the news they're showing a couple hundred people have shut down the University bridge.
I just watched the CBS evening news broadcast and they outright lied, they just lied. They said protestor numbers in New York were only in the hundreds. They said it twice. Wow.
I'm hearing 15-20,000 maybe more. People have said police scanners estimated 30k. Who knows. Certainly the news is lying then.
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Funny- Another wild and creative image today: Remember when the Berkeley camp got raided overnight and they were ordered not to pitch tents at Sproul Plaza? No problem. Today they got around it by floating them OFF the ground, on balloons. Our "space" indeed.
Third Eye Blind's, Stephan Jenkins, took time out from writing his bands fifth album this week to pen a track in support of The Occupy Wall Street movement. Stephan, whose been active for years in progressive politics, sees this as a galvanizing moment. "I hope it achieves its goals of starting new politics that are counter to the trend towards oligarchy that's been increasingly foisted on us these last few years."
"If There Ever Was A Time" is, at it's heart, a simple invitation to join the movement. Particularly young people. "I think college students are going to come to terms with the unfairness of student loans, the hallowing out of jobs from finance based capitalism, and the depletion of public wealth. When you take money out of politics, which is what Occupy Wall Street is about for me, you reverse these trends. This song is meant to encourage their participation. I hope we flood this movement with music."
The song will be available as a free download on the bands Facebook and website, and Third Eye Blind asks that if you like the track then you donate to Occupy 99. -- If There Ever Was A Time Lyrics
If there ever was a time, it would be now is all i'm saying if there ever was a time to get on your feet and take it to the street cause you're the one who's getting played right now by the game they're playing come on meet me down at Zuccotti park
chorus: oh where are the youth, we need you now come speak the truth, come break it down where are the youth, we need you now
if there ever was a time , it would be now to make the master's hear this if there ever was a time to get downtown and get non violent and fearless things only get brighter when you light a spark everywhere you go right now is Zuccotti park
and news corps says you don't have a plan well sit down man, i'll tell you again the plan's to stand together up to greed and a tear gas can in a veteran's face won't change the case
chorus
if there ever was a time, it would be now for the rest of us if there ever was a time it would be now cause money and power are incestuous a moment makes a movement or it fades out in the dark come on meet me down at Zuccotti park
and i saw a sign in the oakland spring it said "occupy everything!" or by and for and off won't mean a thing
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As Occupy Enters Third Month | A Look at How Protesters Are Building a Global Movement — Uploaded by DemocracyNow!, Nov 16, 2011 | transcript
[YOUTUBE NOTES.] As the Occupy movement approaches its two-month anniversary, we're joined by two guests who are studying its strategies and successes. Author Jeff Sharlet helped found the group, Occupy Writers, and is assisting efforts to reestablish the evicted library at Occupy Wall Street. His recent article for Rolling Stone is "Inside Occupy Wall Street: How a bunch of anarchists and radicals with nothing but sleeping bags launched a nationwide movement." Democracy Now! speaks with Sharlet and also speak with Marina Sitrin, who is researching global mass movements from Spain to Egypt, and has just returned from Greece. Sitrin says the Occupy movement's assemblies offer a "radical, if not revolutionary, way of organizing ... When we're in our neighborhoods, and come together and relate in that way, it's more like alternative governance."
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
by Bruce Dazzling » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:39 pm 
