Thursday, November 17, 2011

Arrests Made As OWS Protesters Take Part In "Day Of Action"

UPDATED 1:39 PM

Arrests Made As OWS Protesters Take Part In "Day Of Action"

By: NY1 News

More than 100 people have been arrested as Occupy Wall Street protesters take part in what's being called a "Day of Action" today, featuring rallies and marches throughout the city to mark two months since the start of the movement.

Several hundred protesters made their way from Zuccotti Park to the New York Stock Exchange before the 9:30 a.m. opening bell.

Barricades were set up by the New York City Police Department to control the crowds, and only people with stock exchange ID's were being let past a certain point.

Arrests Made As OWS Protesters Take Part In "Day Of Action"

Police say four officers were taken to an area hospital after demonstrators threw an unknown liquid at them.

The injuries are not said to be serious.

At one point the protesters' presence wreaked havoc on many living in and around Wall Street as well as those trying to get to work.

"I think they need to take into consideration those that were supporting them as well. I think they're just being really selfish right now," said one Wall Street worker.

Protesters though say they are still working to get their message out.

"I'm concerned about Wall Street bankers ruining our country, ruining our economy, buying off our politicians," said one protester.

"I don't care about their crying that they can't get to work and steal more," said another.

Later today, a student protest is planned in Union Square at 2 p.m. followed by an occupation of the city's subway system at 3 p.m.

Demonstrators say they're planning to meet at 16 subway stops and transportation hubs in each of the boroughs, sharing stories with straphangers.

At 5 p.m., protesters will gather along with several labor unions at Foley Square for a rally to demand jobs.

The city says it is preparing for a huge number of protestors, perhaps in the tens of thousands.

From there, the group is expected to march to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Meantime, one demonstrator is awaiting arraignment on charges of making a terrorist threat after posting a video threatening to attack Macy's in Herald Square.

Police say Nkrumah Tinsely, 29, was arrested Wednesday at Zuccotti Park after a video was posted online in which he said, “In a few days, you're gonna see what a Molotov cocktail does to Macy's."

Tinsley also said he was going to, "burn down the city."

Police say it wasn't clear if the Bronx man had the ability to make a bomb.

Tinsley was also arrested last month for allegedly assaulting a police officer during an Occupy Wall Street protest.

"Day of Action" Schedule

"Shut Down Wall Street" — 7:00 a.m.
Protesters will gather at Liberty Square to "confront Wall Street."

"Occupy The Subways" — 3:00 p.m.
Protesters will gather at subway stations across the five boroughs and rally on trains.

Bronx
- Fordham Rd
- 3rd Ave, 138th Street
- 163rd and Southern Blvd
- 161st and River - Yankee Stadium

Brooklyn
- Broadway Junction
- Borough Hall
- 301 Grove Street
- St Jose Patron Church,185 Suydam St, Bushwick

Queens
- Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Ave.
- Jamaica Center/Parsons/Archer
- 92-10 Roosevelt Avenue, Jackson Heights

Manhattan
- 125th St. A,B,C,D
- Union Sq. ("Mass student strike")
- 23rd St and 8th Ave

Staten Island
- St. George, Staten Island Ferry Terminal
- 479 Port Richmond Avenue, Port Richmond

"Take the Square" — 5:00 p.m.
"Tens of thousands" of protesters will gather at Foley Square.



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Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:41pm EST

* Occupy Wall Street day of action follows park eviction

* Heavy security around New York Stock Exchange, Wall St (Updates with new quote, action in Los Angeles, Dallas and Berkeley, California, in paragraph 8, 11 and 22)

By Chris Francescani and Sharon Reich

NEW YORK, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people protesting against economic inequality marched in New York's financial district on Thursday and there were minor skirmishes with police, but authorities thwarted their bid to shut down Wall Street.

Police barricaded the narrow streets around the New York Stock Exchange and used batons to push protesters onto the sidewalk as they marched through the area during the morning rush hour to prevent financial workers getting to their desks.

Protesters banged drums and yelled "We are the 99 percent" -- referring to their contention that the U.S. political system benefits only the richest 1 percent. Some chanted at police: "You're sexy, you're blue, now take off that riot suit."

"I feel like this is a beautiful moment to take back our streets," said Rachel Falcone, 27, from Brooklyn. "We need to prove we can exist anywhere. It's gone beyond a single neighborhood, it's really an idea."

About 75 people were arrested, police said, but by 11 a.m. (1600 GMT) protesters had returned to nearby Zuccotti Park, which had been the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement's camp headquarters before police evicted them from the space on Tuesday.

The New York Stock Exchange opened on time and was operating normally.

The turnout for the march on Wall Street, which kicked off a day of action in New York and elsewhere in the United States, fell short of expectations by a spokesman for the protesters and city officials for tens of thousands of people.

"We certainly want to see more people mobilize and show up," said Occupy Wall Street spokesman Jeff Smith. "It was a fantastic turnout, we occupied corners and intersections all over downtown."

Protesters are also planning to take their protest to 16 subway hubs later on Thursday, then return to City Hall for a rally before marching across the Brooklyn Bridge. Last month, more than 700 people were arrested during a similar march across the bridge after some protesters blocked traffic.

The support of labor unions and liberal group Moveon.org could boost numbers at the New York City Hall rally.

In Los Angeles, hundreds of protesters and union members marched through the city's financial district chanting "Whose streets? Our streets" in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, while in Dallas more than a dozen people were arrested when police shut down their six-week-old camp near City Hall.

'GET A JOB'

New York taxi driver Mike Tupea, a Romanian immigrant, said his car was stuck amid the protesters for 40 minutes.

"I have to make a living. I pay $100 for 12 hours for this cab. I am losing money every minute," he said. "I have all my sympathies for this movement but let me do my living, let working people make a living."

The Occupy Wall Street movement was born on Sept. 17, when protesters set up camp in Zuccotti Park, and sparked solidarity rallies and occupations of public spaces across the United States. It has also re-energized similar movements elsewhere in the world.

Peter Cohen, 47, an anthropologist from New York, wore a suit for the protest in a bid to improve the movement's image.

"I have a job and (the suit) on because I'm tired of the way this movement has been characterized as a fringe movement," said Cohen. "I'm not looking for money, I'm not looking for a job, I'm not a professional activist, just a normal citizen."

Protesters say they are upset that billions of dollars in bailouts given to banks during the recession allowed a return to huge profits while average Americans have had no relief from high unemployment and a struggling economy.

They also say the richest 1 percent of Americans do not pay their fair share of taxes.

As he tried to get to his financial district office, Paul Layton, a trial lawyer, said he hoped "that through (the protesters) efforts they can convince government to regulate the financial industry."

Derek Tabacco was not happy as he tried to get to the offices of his financial technology company and was carrying a sign with a message for the protesters that read "Get a job."

The clearing of the Occupy camp in New York followed evictions in Atlanta, Portland and Salt Lake City. Unlike action in Oakland, California, where police used tear gas and stun grenades, most protesters left voluntarily.

Before dawn on Thursday, police cleared away a protest camp from a plaza at the University of California, Berkeley, where 5,000 people had gathered on Tuesday night.

Megyn Norbut, from Brooklyn, said she holds down three jobs and that she joined the protest on Thursday "because we got kicked out of Zuccotti and we need to show that this is a mental and spiritual movement, not a physical movement."

"It's not about the park," said Norbut, 23. (Writing by Michelle Nichols; editing by Doina Chiacu and Mohammad Zargham)


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Occupy Wall Street's Day of Disruption Begins


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By RICHARD ESPOSITO, ALAN FARNHAM and SUSANNA KIM (@skimm )
Nov. 17, 2011

New York City activists, angry at having been evicted from their encampment, began a "Day of Action" Thursday in an attempt to disrupt the New York Stock Exchange and transit in the city. Police arrested about 100 Occupy Wall Street protesters by mid-day for actions like obstructing traffic and resisting arrests, officials say.

One protester who was arrested threw a liquid that stung, possibly vinegar, in the faces of officers, said police.

Protest organizers claim today's events, falling on the two-month anniversary of the Occupy movement, will be their biggest yet. A New York City deputy mayor said yesterday that officials are bracing for the possibility that thousands may try to clog subways and bridges. Occupy protesters in other US cities are also planning disruptions.

"Otherwise it was orderly, with employees and residents using IDs to enter Wall St in vicinity of the exchange," said one senior New York City official, after the NYSE opened without incident. At nearby Zuccotti Park, police in riot gear held back a crowd of several hundred protesters.

Christopher Guerra, who formerly worked at the "information desk" at Zuccotti Park before protesters were evicted, gathered with others near the stock exchange.

"I say we shut the whole country down," Guerra said.

The group in a news release announced it would rally near the New York Stock Exchange, then head to subways and march over the Brooklyn Bridge. "Resist austerity. Rebuild the economy. Reclaim our democracy," the group wrote.

"The protesters are calling for a massive event aimed at disrupting major parts of the city," New York Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said in a news conference. "We will be prepared for that."

Amid reports that protesters would don suits and try to infiltrate the financial district, New York police this morning were asking people going to the Wall Street area to show company IDs indicating they belong there, WABC-TV reported.

Mayor Bloomberg told an audience of business leaders this morning that the protests are a dire sign of the public's economic fears.

"We're coming to a point where Occupy Wall Street is just the beginning, the Tea Party is just the beginning," he said. "The public is getting scared. They don't know what to do, and they're going to strike out, and they don't know where."

Amid arrests and scattered violence, Occupy groups around the country have been evicted in recent days from campsites in Portland, Oregon; Denver, Oakland, New York, St. Louis and other cities. Meantime, the movement's system for self-governance has been evolving, and its character has grown "more militant" in the words of Adbusters, the Canadian magazine and activist organization that originally gave rise to Occupy.

Adbusters reports the change in self-governance occurred in late October, when the "structure working group" of OWS's General Assembly pushed through a "modified spokes council model" that lays the foundation for a far larger, even global spokescouncil.

"We are beginning to see," says an Adbusters member, "how the Occupy movement will elevate itself into an international force."

In the U.S., its support from organized labor is increasing, as is its willingness to engage in violence, manifested by property damage in Oakland and other cities.

Meantime, a recent survey of OWS members by Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, Ph.D, of the School of Public Affairs at New York's Baruch College, sheds new light on who they are: Young (64.2 percent are under 34), well educated, white (81.3 percent) and male (67 percent). Only half are employed full-time. Over 70 percent say they are independents politically, 27 percent are Democrats, 2.5 percent are Republicans.

Experts, taking these developments and others into account, predict varying futures for Occupy.

Vincent Schiavone, founder and chairman of ListenLogic, a company that monitors social and business trends by analyzing everything from social network chatter to the content of religious sermons, doesn't see OWS going away anytime soon. To the contrary, he says, its presence on social media is "very much growing."

More people are joining—students especially. "There's increased activity on campus." He sees an increased sophistication in how OWS communicates: "They had live blogging of Tuesday night's New York City police action, minute by minute."

There are other ways, says Schiavone, that the OWS of today differs from what the movement was a month ago: There's an increased truculence, he says, as illustrated by protesters' signs making such threats as "Rich, beware. Your days are numbered."

"The words and images are darker, more violent. You see protesters covering their faces now, which they didn't do before." There's more talk of revolution. Increasingly, he says, the targets are conservative political figures. Just yesterday, for example, Herman Cain canceled an appearance in Iowa when his campaign learned that Occupy protesters had targeted it.

He finds it curious that Occupy Oakland chose the Port of Oakland as the prime focus for its general strike, since neither the port nor the shipping industry had figured previously as an Occupy villain. Why didn't they go after some big bank, say, or some other financial target? Schiavone believes the choice is proof of organized labor's increasing involvement in and support of the movement. Unions who support OWS now include the UAW, the SEIU, the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters.

Since Occupy's encampments are only one manifestation of the movement's strength, he doesn't see the loss of them—whether to police actions or winter and weather-related abandonment—as relevant. "It's sustainable without the encampments," he said. What's more significant, he thinks, is the growing number of people involved in the movement online around the world. "Physical encampments, it's true, may be shrinking. But the 'online' encampment, you could say, is growing dramatically."

The most surprising prediction may belong to John Friedman, a senior columnist for Dow Jones' MarketWatch, who sees ad agencies, marketing companies, and other stalwarts of mainstream U.S. business figuring out ways to make money off the very protesters now vowing to pull down the establishment. "It wouldn't surprise me," Friedman says, "to see some shrewd marketing professional on Madison Avenue hungrily eyeing the commercial potential of the rallies."

Farfetched? Not at all, he argues, pointing to how advertisers managed in the early '70s to co-opt the symbols, dress and music of '60s counter-culture radicals. In what he calls a "grotesque premonition," he imagines a future where "breathless New York City tour guides will lead groups to visit the demonstrators.

Remember when tourists flocked in the 1960s to the hippie Haight-Ashbury to 'see the freaks'?"

ABC News' Mark Crudele and Alyssa Newcomb contributed to this report.


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Ousted Pope brought back by the Fascists

October 18, 2011

The Kingdom of Italy removed Roman Catholicism as state religion in 1870. In 1929 the Papal system was brought back by the Fascists, though the Treaties of Lateran. With Benito Mussolini as the midwife, The present Vatican state was born.

In 1848, the Pope of Rome was exiled to the Castle of Gaeta 120 kilometer south ot Rome.

In 1848, the Pope of Rome was exiled to the Castle of Gaeta 120 kilometer south ot Rome.

The Papal system was the ruler of Kings and Kingdoms. It was the biggest landowner of the divide Italian peninsula of many small states. It had its own army, and a Pope sitting in Rome.

On September 10 in 1870 A.D, Italy declared war on the Papal States. The Italian Army, commanded by General Raffaele Cadorna, crossed the papal frontier on 11 September and advanced slowly toward Rome. He was hoping that a peaceful entry could be negotiated.

The Italian Army reached the Aurelian Walls on 19 September and placed Rome under a state of siege. Although the pope’s tiny army was incapable of defending the city, Pius IX ordered it to put up at least a token resistance to emphasize that Italy was acquiring Rome by force and not consent.

Map of Italy before the war against the Papal system

Map of Italy before the war against the Papal system

On September 20, the Bersaglieri entered Rome and marched down Via Pia, which was subsequently renamed Via XX Settembre. Rome and Latium were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy.

In October, Rome and the surrounding Campagna, voted for a union with the kingdom of Italy. Pius IX refused to accept this act of force majoure.

Pope Pius IX lost his Earthly Kingdom. The Papal system made a comback in Rome with the help of the Fascists.

Pope Pius IX lost his Earthly Kingdom. The Papal system made a comeback in Rome with the help of the Fascists.

He remained in his palace, describing himself as a prisoner in the Vatican. However the new Italian control of Rome did not wither, nor did the Catholic world come to the Pope’s aid, as Pius IX had expected.

Pope Pius IX spent his time as prisoner of the Vatican. In 1882, A later Pope even considered moving the papacy to Trieste or Salzburg, two cities in Austria.

My comment:

Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council in 1869, which decreed Papal infallibility in questions of moral and how to understand the scriptures.

That the Roman religion was suspended as state religion in the new Italian Kingdom the very next year, should not have impressed anyone enough to believe in the infallibility of the Pope in Rome.

The people of 1870 A.D simply did not want him. Even the people who lived in Rome, voted against the Pope in a referendum. The citizens of Rome wanted to be a part of the new Kingdom of Italy, with religious freedom, without a Pope as their religious head.

The Pope of Rome became a victim of the political games he had created as head of a worldly state. In 1848 he even had to flee Rome because of an uprising, and take exile in the Castle of Gaeta in The Kingdom of Two Sicilles. That was 120 kilometers from Rome, just north of Napoli. The Pope, not yet to be anointed by his Church with infallibility, was exiled in this castle for two years. But even when he came back to Rome in april 1850, French troops remained in Rome until 1870, to protect the status quo on the chaotic Italian peninsula.

If it had not been for the Fascists, the Papal system might have ended on the scrap-yard of history almost hundred years ago. The Bible tells us that one Pope, one of the heads of the «beast» would be rescued by another «beast».

Revelation 13:3
One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.

Mussolini and Hitler. Two stern faced man came to the reque of the Pope of Rome.

Mussolini and Hitler. Two stern faced Kings came to the rescue of the Pope of Rome. Hitler made his own peace deal with the Vatican in 1933.

The «brown shirts»brought back Roman Catholicism as state religion in Italy. The Fascists and the Pope had common interests and aspirations, and were well suited for each other.

If the Fascists were able to gain World control by political and military powers, the winners would make the Pope in Rome the religious head of the World.

Bentito Mussolini came to power by violence, following the «March on Rome» in 1922. As late as 1927, he was baptized by a Catholic priest. This was needed to silence Catholic opposition to the planned deal of making peace with Fascism in exchange for the Vatican state in 1929.

The two «peace partners» of Rome who signed the Treaties of Lateran. did not succeed.

But just before the Jewish Messiah returns to Earth, they will finally«succeed».

Read more about the Papal views on Israel: Click here

First published July 16th, 2009

Written by Ivar

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Occupy Wall Street's 'Day of Disruption': WN Live Updates

Nov 17, 2011 9:29am
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Live blog of Occupy Wall Street’s “Day of Disruption” in New York City.

LIVE UPDATES:

11:27 a.m. ET - ABC News’ Richard Esposito: As Occupy Wall Street took to the streets of lower Manhattan, minor clashes with police and classic civil disobedience — passive resistance — led to about 75 arrested by late morning, according to police officials who said 40 of the 75 arrests occurred at Nassau and Pine Streets.

Those were for obstructing traffic and resisting arrest.

“Otherwise it was orderly, with employees and residents using IDs to enter Wall St in vicinity of the exchange,” said one senior official.

One protester threw a liquid that stung – possibly vinegar -in the face of officers. The protester who threw the liquid was arrested, said police.

11:19 a.m. ET - ABC News’ Erin McLaughlin: Protesters in Zuccotti Park are taking down the metal barricades and standing on them in the park, while chanting “take back wall street.” Police started pushing back with batons to replace the barricades while protesters chant “the whole world is watching.”I saw police passing around plastic restraints seemingly in anticipation of arrests.

10:51 a.m. ET - ABC News’ Alyssa Newcomb: Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons participated in the march on Wall Street this morning. He is now in Zuccotti Park and said he is there to bring energy to the movement. He plans on participating in the other demonstrations that are scheduled for today.

10:29 a.m. ET - ABC News’ Alyssa Newcomb: Protesters have marched from Wall St. back to Zuccotti Park. There are chants of “setup the tents” and other protesters are telling the NYPD they need to live up to the department’s slogan of “courtesy, professionalism, respect.”

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10:14 a.m. ET - ABC News’ Aaron Katersky:

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9:28 a.m. ET - ABC News’ TJ Winick: Just overheard from two middle age protesters – ”Do you know what the plan is now?” “I don’t think there is one.”

9:04 a.m. ET - ABC News’ TJ Winick:

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9:01 a.m. ET - ABC News’ Aaron Katersky: The demonstrators have been trying to approach the NYSE from every possible direction, blocked at each by a wall of NYPD. While arrests happen there is a marching band like something out of mardi gras, protesters dressed as trees and in other costumes…all mingling with business suited men and bewildered children trying to get to school. With the music, chants, cops, costumes the scene is somewhat absurd.

8:53 a.m. ET - ABC News’ TJ Winick: Chants of “Shame” and “The whole world is watching” as arrests are being made.

8:48 a.m. ET - ABC News’ Dan Harris: At corner of Nassau and Pine. Several hundred protesters have shut down intersection a block or so from NYSE. Police just warned people to get out of the street. Arrests appear imminent.

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Wall Street clashes start Occupy's day of action

November 17, 2011 7:30 AM




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Updated at 9:42 a.m. ET

NEW YORK - Police arrested protesters who sat on the ground and blocked traffic into New York's financial district on Thursday, part of a day of mass gatherings in response to efforts to break up Occupy Wall Street camps nationwide.

Police in riot helmets hauled several protesters to their feet and handcuffed them one block from Wall Street.

"All day, all week, shut down Wall Street!" the crowd chanted.

The march comes after anti-Wall Street activists in San Francisco Wednesday swarmed into a Bank of America branch and tried to set up camp in the lobby. About 100 demonstrators rushed into the bank, chanting "money for schools and education, not for banks and corporations."

In New York, after several arrests, most of the protesters retreated down the street. A line of riot police followed them.

"You do not have a parade permit! You are blocking the street!" a police officer told protesters through a bullhorn.

The congestion brought taxis and delivery trucks to a halt.

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The protest had been planned before the city and park owners cracked down on the encampment in Zuccotti Park, but took on added importance to the protesters after tents, tarps and sleeping bags were cleared out early Tuesday and the granite plaza across the street from the World Trade Center site was cleaned for the first time since the group arrived more than two months ago.

"This is a critical moment for the movement given what happened the other night," said Paul Knick, 44, a software engineer from Montclair, N.J. "It seems like there's a concerted effort to stop the movement and I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen."

The confrontations in New York followed early-morning arrests in Dallas, where police evicted dozens of protesters from their campsite near City Hall citing public safety and hygiene issues. They arrested 18 protesters who refused to leave.

Transit officials were preparing to deal with a crush of people as part of the protest billed as a national day of action. The group announced it would rally near the New York Stock Exchange, then fan out across Manhattan and head to subways, before gathering downtown and marching over the Brooklyn bridge.

Passer-by Gene Williams, a 57-year-old bond trader, joked that he was "one of the bad guys" but that he empathized with the demonstrators.

"They have a point in a lot of ways," he said. "The fact of the matter is, there is a schism between the rich and the poor and it's getting wider."

Similar protests were planned around the county.

New York City officials said they had not spoken to demonstrators but were aware of the plans.

"The protesters are calling for a massive event aimed at disrupting major parts of the city," Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said. "We will be prepared for that."

At Wednesday's San Francisco protest, police in riot gear responded and began cuffing the activists one-by-one as other demonstrators surrounded the building, blocking entrances and exits.

After protesters had dispersed, police said 95 activists were arrested, taken to jail, cited and released.

No injuries were reported in the protest, one of several in the area focusing on school funding.


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