With protesters being PREVENTED from exercising their democratic right to protest in a CENTRAL location, protesters have chosen a NEW tactic: blocking ALL access points to the New York Stock Exchange.

Essentially the city of New York has been attempting to "starve out" the protesters in various ways - and now the protesters are TURNING THE TABLES. Small-but-numerous groups blocking key access points can be REASSEMBLED as fast as they are dispersed/arrested.

This gives the city of New York (and Wall Street) a CHOICE:

They can allow these (peaceful) protesters to exercise their democratic rights at some central location, WITHOUT further harrassment/intimidation, OR they can try to play protester "whack-a-mole" as one road-block MATERIALIZES every time another one is hammered-down...

in my e-mail:



Thousands Occupy Wall Street
All Entry Points to New York Stock Exchange Blockaded

November 17 Day of Action Underway
Marking 2-Months Since Birth of the 99% Movement


New York, NY — Thousands marched on Wall Street this morning, blockading all entry points to the New York Stock Exchange. 'People's mics' have been breaking out at barricades, with participants sharing stories of struggling in an unfair economy.

"I paid taxes and took care of my responsibility, and I'm struggling," said participant, Leah Lackner, 27, who had taken the day off work as a mental health counselor to join the protest. Her sign read: "I played by the rules."

57-year-old bond trader Gene Williams joked that he was “one of the bad guys” and said supportively, “The fact of the matter is, there is a schism between the rich and the poor and it's getting wider."

Participant and small business owner Jonathan Smucker confronted a Wall Street financial firm executive who held a sign that said 'get a job': "Ten percent of Americans are looking for work, most Americans are struggling, and you stand smugly in your suit and say to 'get a job'. You're insulting just about everyone in your country," Smucker said.

At least 200 people have been arrested so far for peaceful assembly and nonviolent civil disobedience, including retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis. "All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited," Mr. Lewis said. "As soon as I'm let out of jail, I'll be right back here and they'll have to arrest me again."

Today marks two months since the start of Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Square. This movement has taken inspiration from global movements for social justice and democracy, including the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia. Occupy Wall Street, labor and community groups, and members of the 99% are celebrating the two-month anniversary of the movement here with a massive day of action.

"Our political system should serve all of us — not just the very rich and powerful. Right now Wall Street owns Washington," said participant Beka Economopoulos. "We are the 99% and we are here to reclaim our democracy."

In the wake of Bloomberg’s predawn raid of Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday morning, thousands of people throughout the five boroughs and the greater region are converging today to take peaceful action. Thousands are also taking action in at least 30 cities across the country.


Schedule for New York Nov. 17 Actions:

7:00am — underway
Shut Down Wall Street
Contacts: Sandra Nurse, 646-283-4443
Patrick Bruner, 347-471-9922

Participants gathered at Liberty Square at 7:00am, before the ring of the Trading Floor Bell, to confront Wall Street with the stories of people on the frontlines of economic injustice. All entry points to New York Stock Exchange were blockaded.


3:00pm
Occupy the Subway
Contact: Tamara Shapiro, 608-345-0369

We will gather at 3:00pm at 16 central subway hubs and take our own stories to the trains, using the "People's Mic". Details at occupywallst.org/action/november-17th/


5:00pm
Take the Square, Festival of Lights on Brooklyn Bridge
Contacts: Mark Read, 917-776-8847
Michael Premo, 917-547-1292
Doug Forand, 917-733-2763

At 5:00pm thousands will gather at Foley Square in solidarity with laborers demanding jobs to rebuild this country's infrastructure and economy. They will encircle City Hall and march across the Brooklyn Bridge, carrying thousands of handheld lights, as a festival of lights to celebrate two months of a new movement to reclaim our democracy.


Resist austerity. Rebuild the economy. Reclaim our democracy.

For more description and details:
occupywallst.org/action/november-17th/

from my e-mail:


Updates on November 17 National Day of Action Coming Soon

Today at 3:00pm:
New York-Wide Student & Education Workers Convergence @ Union Square.

After the cynical reasoning and brutal tactics used by Mayor Bloomberg, the FBI, and the NYPD to squash the Occupy Wall Street movement, NYC students are converging today to say "enough!"

Student supporters of Occupy Wall Street have been holding actions every day this week at universities throughout New York City to draw attention to issues such as student debt, tuition hikes, university ties to Wall Street, workers' rights and structural inequalities within our schools and our communities.


We're contesting a system that is far less fair and less equal than ought to be. This is about the socio-economic conditions that have produced a vast and unsustainable inequality in this country and globally. People from across the divides of class, profession, race and gender feel at a visceral level this sense of inequality and unfairness. It's about the existing gap in wealth and equality, the lack of opportunity for so many, and the prospect of a lifetime of indebtedness.


Join thousands of students and workers from around the city today at 3pm as we show solidarity with OWS and our strength together as the 99%.

from my e-mail:


November 17: Historic Day of Action for the 99%

November 17 Day of Action:

Over 30,000 People Rally in New York City (NYPD estimated 32,500), including organized contingents of workers, students, and other members of “the 99%”
Actions in at least 30 cities across the country and around the world
Commemoration of 2-Months Since Birth of the 99% Movement, Festival of Lights on Brooklyn Bridge
Blockade of all Entry-Points to NYSE; hundreds participate in nonviolence civil disobedience
Sense that a powerful and diverse civic movement for social justice is on the ascent

New York, NY — Tens of thousands took action Thursday, November 17 to demand that our political system serve all of us — not just the wealthy and powerful. The NYPD estimated tonight’s crowd at 32,500 people, at the culmination of the day of action. Thousands more also mobilized in at least 30 cities across the United States. Demonstrations were also held in cities around the world.

"Our political system should serve all of us — not just the very rich and powerful. Right now Wall Street owns Washington," said participant Beka Economopoulos. "We are the 99% and we are here to reclaim our democracy."

New York led the charge in this energizing day for the emerging movement. In the wake of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s predawn raid of Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Square, 1:00am Tuesday morning, thousands of people throughout the five boroughs and the greater region converged to take peaceful action. Following Bloomberg’s action, the slogan “You can’t evict an idea whose time has come” became the new meme of the 99% movement overnight. The mobilization today proved that the movement is on the ascent and is capable of navigating obstacles.

The day started at 7am with a convergence of a few thousand people on Wall Street. All entry points to the New York Stock Exchange were blockaded. 'People's mics' broke out at barricades, with participants sharing stories of struggling in a dismal and unfair economy.

Through the course of the day, at least 200 people were arrested for peaceful assembly and nonviolent civil disobedience, included City Council Member Melissa Mark Viverito, City Council Member Jumaane Williams, Workers United International Vice President Wilfredo Larancuent, SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry, SEIU 1199 President George Gresham, CWA Vice President Chris Shelton, CWA Vice President , Fr. Luis Barrios of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization-IFCO, retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis, and many others.

"All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited," retired Police Captain Ray Lewis said. "As soon as I'm let out of jail, I'll be right back here and they'll have to arrest me again."

57-year-old bond trader Gene Williams joked that he was “one of the bad guys” and said supportively, “The fact of the matter is, there is a schism between the rich and the poor and it's getting wider."

At 3:00pm, thousands of students converged at Union Square in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. They held a teach-in to discuss their concerns about the prospect of a lifetime of debt and economic insecurity. They held a student General Assembly and marched en masse to Foley Square.

The rally at Foley Square was electric. It was remarkably diverse in participation, across race, religion, gender, and age. As the rally concluded, thousands of participants walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, holding up lights — for a “festival of lights” to mark two months since the birth of the “99% movement”. (November 17 marks two months since the start of Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Square.)

"I worked hard and played by the rules, but when budget cuts hit last year I lost my job as an EMT and now I'm about to lose my family's home," said Bronx resident Carlos Rivera. "I'm sitting down on the Brooklyn Bridge today because it's not fair that our taxpayer dollars bailed out big banks like my mortgage holder, Bank of America, but they refuse home-saving loan modifications for struggling families like mine. It's time banks and the super wealthy paid their fair share and Congress helped people get back to work."

Interviews available upon request.

from my e-mail:



TODAY: Elders from Civil Rights Movement Pass the Torch to Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Square


Today Elders from the Civil Right's Movement will be sharing the torch of social justice and equality with the Occupy Wall Street movement — a symbolic act by which they recognize OWS as the transformative movement of the 21st Century.

“We see Occupy Wall Street as a continuation, a deepening and expansion of the determination of the diverse peoples of our nation to transform our country into a more democratic, equitable, just, and compassionate society,” excerpt from the statement of solidarity by the Council of Elders to be read at each of the Occupy encampments.

By bringing their voices to the Occupy Wall Street movement, the elders will be addressing a litany of social grievances, including poverty, mass incarceration, and what they call a culture of war and violence.

Today, Sunday, Nov. 20:


3:30pm: Interfaith Service led by the Elder Council at Liberty Square. They will symbolically pass the torch of hope and social justice to OWS.
5:30pm: Conversation between the Elder Council members and OWS at Judson Memorial Church. Open to the general public - discussing space, liberation and race.
7:00-7:30pm: Gathering at Washington Square Park for a candle light vigil march / action to Duarte Park.


On the heals of the 17th National Action Day, today will be a day of nonviolent, spiritual and powerful gathering in solidarity.

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MEDIA RELEASE FROM THE ELDER COUNCIL:

Elders from Across the Nation Declare Solidarity with the Occupy Movement


Veterans of America’s 20th Century civil rights movement will enter the 21st Century Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles on Sunday, November 20.

Known as the “Council of Elders,” they will step inside the nationwide encampments to symbolically share the torch of hope and justice and engage the Occupiers in dialogue about defining movements of the past. “We want to contribute to this intergenerational movement,” says Dr. Vincent Harding, activist and writer in the civil rights movement. “We are thankful for the efforts of Occupy Wall Street to unite the 99% and bring the many gifts and great energy of millions into effective action to transform our nation.”


The Council of Elders is an independent group of leaders from the farm workers, sanctuary and human rights movements that shook the nation’s conscience with public protests over the past 50 years.

“We see Occupy Wall Street as a continuation, a deepening and expansion of the determination of the diverse peoples of our nation to transform our country into a more democratic, equitable, just, and compassionate society,” excerpt from the statement of solidarity by the Council of Elders to be read at each of the Occupy encampments.

By bringing their voices to the Occupy Wall Street movement, the elders are addressing a litany of social grievances, including poverty, mass incarceration, and what they call a culture of war and violence. Dolores Huerta, activist with Cesar Chavez and the farm-workers movement, believes today’s conditions create bitter divisions among peoples across the United States and throughout the world.

“We applaud the miraculous extent to which the Occupy initiative around the nation has been non-violent and democratic, especially in light of the weight of the systematic violence under which the great majority of people are forced to live,” says Rev. James Lawson, leading theoretician, tactician and theologian of the civil rights movement.

The economic crisis which sparked the Occupy Wall Street movement also motivated the veteran protesters. They cite soaring unemployment rates, home foreclosures, and inadequate health care as issues that require public outcries.

The Council of Elders promotes compassion and non-violent action as the highest values to reverse trends that put profits ahead of people in its quest to contribute to the much-needed movement for a more just society and a more peaceful world.

The council members are urging elders from around the nation to join the Occupy Wall Street movement.

*Elder Council Members include:

REV. JAMES LAWSON, JR. served 14 months in prison as a conscientious objector to the Korean War draft in 1951. After studying Gandhi’s principles of civil disobedience in India, he went on to train the Freedom Riders and other future leaders of the Civil Rights Movement as director of the Congress for Racial Equality.

DR. VINCENT G. HARDING. Native New Yorker, theologian, civil rights activist, and author of nine books including Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement. He was an educator and activist in the Southern Freedom Movement and continues to advise churches, schools, prisons and community groups.

REV. PHILLIP LAWSON** is a long-time civil rights leader, Cofounder of California Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights and Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and Director of East Bay Housing Organization.

DOLORES HUERTA. Cofounder of the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, Huerta directed the famous national grape boycott that resulted in the entire California table grape industry signing a contract in 1970. Never deterred from the struggle, she has been arrested 22 times and was beaten by police when protesting George H.W. Bush.

DR. BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON. Singer, author, educator, and Civil Rights Activist in the Freedom Singers organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, Reagon has recorded several albums including Lest We Forget, Vol. 3: Sing for Freedom and written on African American culture and history including We Who Believe In Freedom.

DR. GRACE LEE BOGGS. At 95, Boggs’ life as feminist, activist, and author, collaborating with scholars such as C.L.R. James in the ‘50s, is world renown. She has been an integral part of the Detroit Social Justice Movement since the ‘60s, founding Detroit Summer in 1992, a program aimed at connecting youth education with community struggle.

DR. GWENDOLYN ZOHARAH SIMMONS. Activist in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in the ‘60s, Simmons is also a student of Islam and Sufism and was staff for 23 years with American Friends Service Committee. She currently teaches subjects such as Race, Religion, and Rebellion.

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN. As the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, Edelman worked with the NAACP to defend activists in the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. She went on to found the Children’s Defense Fund and advocate against child poverty.

RABBI ARTHUR WASKOW** has authored many works including “A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority,” a manifesto supporting military draft resisters. He is an ardent peace activist in the Israel-Palestine conflict and has been awarded by numerous organizations, including the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation.

REV. DR. GEORGE (TINK) TINKER is a prominent American Indian activist, theologian, and author of works such as Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation. He has been a critic of Western intellectualism and economic, political, religious, and social systems.

REV. JOHN FIFE co-founded the Sanctuary Movement, which organized over 500 churches to illegally support refugees fleeing U.S.-supported death squads in the ‘80s, and No More Deaths, a coalition to end border deaths.

REV. MEL WHITE.** After starting his career ghostwriting for homophobic evangelicals such as Jerry Falwell, White struggled to accept his homosexuality and broke with the Christian Right. He has since become an outspoken LGBTQ advocate and author for and minister to the LGBTQ community.

REV. NELSON JOHNSON** is founder of the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, NC and a longtime advocate for poor people. He led the 1979 anti-Klan march in which neo-Nazis and Klan members, with police collusion, murdered 5 protesters on November 3, 1979, and has been a leader in the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation process, designed to seek truth and reconciliation around those events.

JOYCE HOBSON JOHNSON.** Active in civil rights struggles since the ‘60s, Johnson is Director of the Jubilee Institute of the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, NC, which provides institutional support, social and political analysis, and training for the broad-based progressive movement. She was also an important figure in the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation efforts.

SISTER JOAN CHITTISTER, O.S.B. is a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, where she served as prioress for 12 years. She writes a web column for the National Catholic Reporter, "From Where I Stand" and speaks on women in the church and society, human rights, and peace and justice in the areas of war and poverty and religious life and spirituality.

**As of Nov. 14, these elders have confirmed their attendance at the NYC Intergenerational Day. Other elders may confirm later. Still other elders will be in attendance at similar demonstrations in San Francisco and/or Oakland on 11/20.


(Biographical information compiled by the Education and Research Sub-committee of the #OWS People of Color Working Group/Caucus.)

In the main, a collection of labor gangs, Marxists and Anarchistic..

They are devoted of any of common sense and affront to civility...

They are themselves members of the .00001%...

It is merely a statement of the aforementioned are still in existence..

mises.org/daily/5807/Economic-Law-vs-Occupy-Wall-Street

blueice wrote:
In the main, a collection of labor gangs, Marxists and Anarchistic..

They are devoted of any of common sense and affront to civility...

They are themselves members of the .00001%...

It is merely a statement of the aforementioned are still in existence..

mises.org/daily/5807/Economic-Law-vs-Occupy-Wall-Street


Blueice, let me provide you with a little history on ALL "economists" (including the Austrians) since they all share much more in common than they have in the way of differences.

Since the BIRTH of economics, all economists have defined "prosperity" as having the standard of living improving for ONLY the top-20%. Indeed, economists don't even define the bottom-80% as HUMAN BEINGS.

They call them (us) "wage units". When the top-20% have incomes increasing faster than the rate of inflation, this is called "prosperity" and we are ALL supposed to "celebrate" (even the bottom-80%).

However, when the bottom-80% receive wage increases greater than the rate of inflation, the economists call this "wage inflation" - and they treat it as the ULTIMATE EVIL.

The entire cabal of economists are a group of morally bankrupt elitists. The Austrians are merely slightly less-idiotic than the Keynesians.

So your Mises Institute elitist propaganda has no plac here.

Meanwhile, back in the "real world", Plutarch pointed out that it was "old news" 2,000 years ago that if you hollow-out an economy by impoverishing the middle class, that economy WILL collapse - without exception.

OWS = BRE-X...

I did not know, that prosperity was class engendered...

" The entire cabal of economists are a group of morally bankrupt elitists. The Austrians are merely slightly less-idiotic than the Keynesians."

I got a kick out of that statement, Jeff....

blueice wrote:
OWS = BRE-X...

I did not know, that prosperity was class engendered...

" The entire cabal of economists are a group of morally bankrupt elitists. The Austrians are merely slightly less-idiotic than the Keynesians."

I got a kick out of that statement, Jeff....

Glad you liked it, but I wasn't doing it for laughs. When I did some research on some of these "great names", I was floored by the narrowness of perspective.

Indeed, in many ways the "difference" between the Austrians and the Keynesians is about as substantial as the "difference" between Republicans and Democrats...

FROM MY E-MAIL:


Occupy Wall Street Thanksgiving

New York, NY— This Thanksgiving, Occupy Wall Street is celebrating unity and community with an open feast at Liberty Square. From 2 to 6 p.m. at Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) we will meet to share food, stories and inspiration. All members of our global community are invited to break bread with us.

"This is all about supporting the 99%,” said Megan Hayes, an organizer with the #OWS Kitchen working group, and a former high end chef. “So many people have given up so much to come and be a part of the movement because there is really that much dire need for community. We decided to take this holiday opportunity to provide just that – community."

More than three thousand individually wrapped plates will be distributed on Thursday in accordance with New York State Health Code. People in the community have opened their homes to cook meals. Roger Fox in New Jersey will be making 250 meals, Mia Valh and Alia Gee are also making large numbers of meals. A lot of community organizations are involved and Liberty Cafe in East NY donates space for the #OWS Kitchen working group.

Locally owned family business, Texas BBQ will be providing 2,000 of the meals. They are being purchased with donated funds and will be served along with the home-cooked meals from supporters and food from the People’s Kitchen at Occupy Wall Street. The Owners of Texas BBQ are Egyptian and are supporters of the Occupy Movement.

Indigenous voices, religious leaders, food justice activists and leaders from peoples’ movements around the world are speaking on Thursday at Liberty Square. Occupy Thanksgiving is a celebration for the entire New York community. All are invited.

There will also be a can food drive. Donations of cans will go to local food banks and pantries throughout NYC.

This sums up my feeling about the OWL gangsters...
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