Victory in New York
Early this morning, the international Occupy movement achieved an
impressive victory as billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg called off
the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors that had been
planned for 7:00 AM. An Occupy Boston solidarity group — dispatched last
night at midnight — arrived just hours before the announcement, which
was greeted with elated cheers and chants of, “All Day, All Week,
Occupy Wall Street”. A spontaneous march immediately followed as
hundreds began pouring down Broadway Avenue with signs and chants
broadcasting their message of economic justice and the end of Wall
Street’s influence on our democracy.
“I can’t remember a happier sight in my life,” said Stephen Squibb, a
member of the Boston solidarity group, “Than that of hundreds of
protestors of all ages and backgrounds swarming through the financial
district as the sun broke over downtown New York on a Friday morning.
It was beautiful.”
Preparations can now continue in earnest for October 15, which
promises to be one of the largest days of international protest in a
generation.
In Solidarity from New York — Occupy Boston
Go here to read about it on Occupy Wall Street’s own web site.
20 Responses to “Occupy Wall Street Victory”
Haven’t heard much about what O.B. Is doing for Oct. 15. Anyone have any news?
There is a peace march organized by other groups that will be ending at Dewey Square. There will be something posted soon about how Occupy Boston itself will participate in the global day of protest.
Boston UNAC Rally: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4379021/unac_oct15-poster.pdf
Global day of protest: http://15october.net/
What a victory for free speech and for the Occupy movements! Congratulations, New York!
All the Occupy movements across the country are now on the cusp of moving from ‘protest to policy’ and it’s not gonna be easy. But it can be done. Whether we sleep in the parks, donate, write…… whatever form our support takes, the injustices we’ve all come together to protest are ‘occupying’ the attention of both political parties, pundits, journalists, foreign governments, etc. Even the Ayatollah of Iran has commented on the Occupy movement!
Now it’s time to take the next step. Please read this article in the LA Times. Let’s start to focus.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20111012,0,114761.column
“All the Occupy movements across the country are now on the cusp of moving from ‘protest to policy’… Now it’s time to take the next step.”
Says who? This movement is not even a month old.
Says me.
Of course if you want to sit in Dewey Square for the rest of your life with no-one paying attention to you, that’s your choice. But as I’ve said above, you have a chance to make BIG changes with the momentum that’s being generated here. Here and NOW.
Or would you prefer to remembered by something like… “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” ?
Paul, I love your comment. I hope others don’t dismiss it so quickly. I agree that we need creative and positive solutions. When i saw the library at the encampment, and the food tent and dishwashing station, for some reason it filled me with hope. People getting together and solving the simple problems of life. Well, we can do that outside the encampment, too. We can live as brothers and sisters rather than as competitive rats in a system designed to extract the maximum work from us for the least food. Thanks and please give more creative input if you can.
At Occupy Boston last night I could almost hear people gagging when talking about the endorsement by Nancy Pelosi. (although we should welcome her too) We don’t have a position on anything yet. Even the “1%” rhetoric has not been ratified. There are a lot of us libertarians and Ron Paul types. I still am hopeful that this will continue as an intellectual awakening.
Paul, I hear your comment and let me respond constructively. I was at the GA meeting last night and I heard a proposal for an Occupy service corps. I was so impressed with this. I will volunteer in a minute, wherever i can, in the name of Occupy, to spread the goodwill that exists among people, and to promote the freedom and democracy that this movement stands for. It will branch out from Dewey Square, to Dorchester, Roxbury, Somerville, the Greater Boston area, the whole state … in a lot of small steps, it will spread throughout. I was so impressed by this. There are two things to be done … cripple the structures that are hurting us, and build new structures to take care of the things that need to be done. For example, we can withdraw any money we have from megabanks, and put them in credit unions. We can stop buying food from the corporate groceries, and start buying from local farms and local food buying co-ops. We can also have a more generous spirit, once we start feeling a more abundant feeling, like the wealth that we produce stays more with us than siphoned off to others…. I feel hopeful. In my life I have always tried to do these things, but now I feel a movement that thinks in the same way, and I am excited. I think you are right, and I think there are answers. I would like to hear yours, too. Thanks.
This is the exact reason why this protest is disgusting. For those who have not seen the video:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1218722335001/police-scooter-runs-over-wall-st-protester
I have watched this on a number of sites now and the conclusion is simple, the guy faked this completely. If you watch the video carefully watch the beginning of the video, the front tire of the bike is not even touching this guys legs and he is screaming in horror. They are inciting violence and it is happening here in Boston and NY. It is out of towners trying to cause panic.
if you look at wellaware1.com you will see paid move on persons play acting different roles as protestors and as police men
More lies/propaganda from the occupiers.
Again, get some integrity or pack up.
Well, lets sum up the achievements to date.
We’ve screamed “greed is bad” at the top of out lungs.
We’ve cost the city of Boston tens of thousands in police details and much more in eventua cleanup costs.
We’ve…We’ve…We’ve
Well, what exsactly HAVE we done????
Oh year, we’ve “fought for those too stupid to understand what we are doing” if I have some of you guys quoted correctly.
No arrogance there!!!!
Could you possibly rewrite that for clarity?
You talk about costing the city $2 million. I’d like to know the source, and also to say that some high profile trials sometimes cost the city $10 million .. sounds like a lot of money but it’s really not so much in the city budget apparently. Also, the city’s response is the city’s choice. I think the movement should work with the city as long as it is willing to work with the movement, to make things go as smoothly as possible, and cost as little as possible. But that said, i think that the cost of a single high profile trial, or the cost of one snowstorm’s snow removal, is worth a revival of the concept of democracy. So as a Boston taxpayer, I support this movement with my tax dollars, and I don’t mind spending whatever pocket change is going to handle whatever little shrubbery problems come up. That is my 2 cents and you can keep the change. Thanks for listening.
Well, let me correct something. You didn’t say $2 million, but that’s a figure other people have been claiming. I’ve had a bit of Boston’s own Bully Boy whiskey and I’m letting loose some things on this keyboard. But the spirit is the same.
I really like the spirit of this movement and I’m willing to see a bit of messiness in the readjustment of democracy to a truer form, even if it costs a dollar of my tax money, given all the other crooked things the tax money goes toward. I respect everyone who makes their real concerns known, in a real spirit of dialogue. With respect.
As to “what have we done?” — I see a lot of good things coming into being from this. I see a new spirit of civic engagement, and a real grassroots spirit of service coming into being. I can’t wait to see Occupy Boston volunteer corps. I see a much needed shift in the political climate, and I am happy for it. It’s about time.
Find the similarities, not the differences. Anything that separates cannot be truth.
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In Cambridge they use taxpayer money to take away your privacy.
http://www.volpe.dot.gov/coi/aso/work/ground-base.html
Maybe the project manager has answers.
All the problems we face in our society, such as poverty, enviromental, polution, pesticides in our food, corporate greed, eliminating fossil fuels, health care, womans rights, Etc. Etc. Etc. can be fixed by two simple acts. # 1 Eliminate the electoral college voting system and have the popular vote only. # 2 Completely throw out the lobby groups to get the business man out of our goverment. All the cards will fall into place, if this is done.
The battle cry of republicans and some non republicans is ( I pulled my self up by my boot staps, so can you ). My answer to this is that if you are not born healthy, aggressive, smart, and lucky, there can be a chance that you will not be as successfull as some. A fact of life is that there are not enough jobs with substantial wages for every single body. There will always be the small man or woman with the small wage, no matter how much they try. Because these people are born into our world and one of us, they should be entitled to the same health care as every one else.