#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

[Bruce Dazzling]

NYPD Troops are massed and ready at the Brooklyn Bridge.

[Project Willow]

Stay safe in NY folks.

[Laodicean]

http://wearetheother99.wordpress.com/

[Laodicean]

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.

http://www.ustream.tv/TheOther99

[justdrew]

[brainpanhandler]

The only aerial view I am finding is from Fox 5

http://www.myfoxny.com/subindex/video/live_video_2

[Laodicean]

Henry's on the Brooklyn Bridge (Multiview Ch. 2). Projector light shining bright on a nearby building "We are the 99%"

Cars driving by honking in solidarity. Happy Birthday to Occupy Wall Street. N17.

[2012 Countdown]

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

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca ... ted_on.php

[2012 Countdown]

@OccupyWallStNYC
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET
"Over 10,000 marchers, stretched across the bridge from one end to another. Over a mile long."

http://www.emergencystream.com/video_st ... YC3/a.html


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Former Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis, In Cuffs

Ray Lewis (Photo via Lauren Thorpe)

If that’s not Pulitzer-worthy photography–capturing the true insanity of today–then we don’t know our Pulitzers.

http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former- ... ested-ows/

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http://instagr.am/p/UmFuR/
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http://yfrog.com/oe507cj

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[Project Willow]

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.

The University bridge, not the Montlake bridge.

Well, at least they fooled the police too.

[Jeff]

Complete message projected onto Verizon building:

99%

MIC CHECK!

YOU ARE PART

OF A GLOBAL UPRISING

FROM THE HEART

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

WE ARE WINNING

http://thephrygiancap.tumblr.com/post/1 ... to-verizon

[2012 Countdown]

^^thanks for that!^^



Found VIDEO-
Projections on Verizon building #ows


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NYT photo album-
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011 ... BIG.html#1

CBS photo album (very good)
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-201_162-100 ... l?tag=page




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btw, there's that dude again-

[Project Willow]

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.

[2012 Countdown]

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.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/164663/oc ... nt-updates

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Our new song in support of Occupy Wall Street is now available on our Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/ThirdEyeBlind

Press Release

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.
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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

Category: Music
Tags: Third Eye Blind If There Ever Was A Time

[Allegro]

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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."