Surico reports: "Yesterday, the activists who were back in town early convened in Washington Square Park - the public space in the West Village that became the outpost once Zuccotti had fallen."
Activist associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement participate in a general assembly during a gathering of the movement in Washington Square park, 09/15/12. (photo: Mary Altaffer/AP)
Marches and Arrests Mark Occupiers Return to Zuccotti
16 September 12
omorrow, it will be one whole year since a group of anti-corporatist raiders met for the first time in Zuccotti Park and deemed themselves Occupy Wall Street. Since then, the national explosion of 99-versus-1 Percent politics has had its ups and downs - in New York, Bloomberg's army of police officers shut down the Park in a late night raid but the movement has sprung legs in numerous other cities.
As the movement began to lose the country's attention, which was slowly shifting towards the election, the original protestors have all but given up, preparing today and tomorrow for the historic one-year anniversary march back down into the heart of the Financial District. And, already, there have been a few arrests in the name of celebratory protest.
Yesterday, the activists who were back in town early convened in Washington Square Park - the public space in the West Village that became the outpost once Zuccotti had fallen. The Daily News estimated that 200 or so members of the movement showed up underneath the famous Arch and set up shop.
Per usual, the cops surrounded the protesters in the park but kept their distance on the perimeter. Everything was at peace, since it is an area meant for public assembly, until the protestors spilled out onto Broadway and attempted to march back to Zuccotti. Tensions immediately rose when reports stated that the protestors began to yell out, "Fuck the police!" - that'll usually be a dealbreaker with the authorities. Soon after, about 25 people were cuffed and brought to a nearby station.
More than two dozen arrests on the first day of the Anniversary weekend is a bad omen for what will happen today or tomorrow. As we all know, Bloomberg and Ray Kelly do not hesitate for a minute when it comes to 99 Percent protests; and neither do the cops on the ground. However, on May Day, which became known as a semi-successful, semi-failed major Occupy protest, only 30 people were arrested out of the thousands that showed up. In terms of statistics for other Occupy protests, that could be considered somewhat peaceful.
As we have seen with Zuccotti and the attempts at blocking the New York Stock Exchange, the NYPD is hyper-sensitive with protection Downtown. So we'll what Occupy Wall Street has in store for New York City in the morning.
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thanks, obama.....(not)
The best thing about the conventions this year was, thanks to streaming video and the Internet, the whole world really was watching as the Republicans changed their rules to exclude Ron Paul supporters on a pre-scripted teleprompter voice vote and the Democrats used the same scam to pass the "Jerusalem is the rightful capital of the state of Israel" plank at their convention. Not to mention the video at the Democratic convention declaring that "We all belong to the same government." Recommended reading: the Declaration of Independence. People might begin to wonder if these conventions really are part of a democratic governmental process or a circus put on to perpetuate the rule of the elite oligarchy.
Republicans also made sure that anti Muslim Movie opened in Hollywood too...we must remember that, it was slightly observed that is where we all lost a good chunk of leverage on these Racists.
OWS were supposed to be at the Conventions, I could understand not wanting to be near the stench of the Rethugs/Tepers but they should have been making their statemement as planned. Very bad strategy.
Perhaps they have decided to take the money and run because they too have no back bone....
I believe if you want something done, organize and do it yourself. Can't depend on others to do it for ya!!! Simply not goin to happen
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