Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park. by the New York Police Department. Please continue to monitor their livefeed and Twitter stream through the night for updates.
From the Occupy Wall St. website:
Updates
3:36 a.m. Kitchen tent reported teargassed. Police moving in with zip cuffs.
3:33 a.m. Bulldozers moving in
3:16 a.m. Occupiers linking arms around riot police
3:15 a.m. NYPD destroying personal items. Occupiers prevented from leaving with their possessions.
3:13 a.m. NYPD deploying sound cannon
3:08 a.m. heard on livestream: “they’re bringing in the hoses.”
3:05 a.m. NYPD cutting down trees in Liberty Square
2:55 a.m. NYC council-member Ydanis Rodríguez arrested and bleeding from head.
2:44 a.m. Defiant occupiers barricaded Liberty Square kitchen
2:44 a.m. NYPD destroys OWS Library. 5,000 donated books in dumpster.
2:42 a.m. Brooklyn Bridge confirmed closed
2:38 a.m. 400-500 marching north to Foley Square
2:32 a.m. All subways but R shut down
2:29 a.m. Press helicopters evicted from airspace. NYTimes reporter arrested.
2:22 a.m. Frontpage coverage from New York Times
2:15 a.m. Occupiers who have been dispersed are regrouping at Foley Square
2:10 a.m. Press barred from entering Liberty Square
2:07 a.m. Pepper spray deployed — reports of at least one reporter sprayed
2:03 a.m. Massive Police Presence at Canal and Broadway
1:43 a.m. Helicopters overhead.
1:38 a.m. Unconfirmed reports of snipers on rooftops.
1:34 a.m. CBS News Helicopter Livestream
1:27 a.m. Unconfirmed reports that police are planning to sweep everyone.
1:20 a.m. Subway stops are closed.
1:20 a.m. Brooklyn bridge is closed.
1:20 a.m. Occupiers chanting “This is what a police state looks like.”
1:20 a.m. Police are in riot gear.
1:20 a.m. Police are bringing in bulldozers.
Phone
Call 311 if you’re in the NYC area.
NYPD 1st Precinct: 212.334.0611
NYPD Central Booking: 718.875.6303
NYPD Internal Affairs: 212.487.7350
City Hall: 212.788.3058
23 Responses to “Occupy Wall Street Raided”
Liberty Park..Ironic…so much for liberty
on November 15th, 2011 at 3:21 am #
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When are they coming for Boston? Be ready.
Martin Luther king once said” an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.” This occupy movement is complete injustice with violence, assault of each other, old women( As in D.C. pushing elderly down stairs),rapes in almost every occupy locatiion, property destruction, rape, drug dealing, drug using, overdosing, trespassing, etc… The message at first was similar to the tea party and you had a 99% slogan attached. As time went on your message changed to a radical progressive extremist message with a strong dose of communism. Luckily there are plenty documenting these abuses by the occupy people including Breitbart, Tucker Carlson. The main stream media has been cheer leading the movement and as we learn assisting the occupiers. From people I talk with all over New England who are mostly Democrats ; they are unanimous that they are disgusted by you. We have seen the hypocrisy of you protesting the big banks, but osw and oakland use Wells fargo to do their banking. We know who is behind the movement thanks to brave independent journalists on the web, we know the message and we know the participants. It is over , you lost the early support you had when you championed the anti corruption mesaage. Now you radicals will be evicted soon and we the people cheer the police.
Seamus, I hope you come and talk with me sometime. I have seen the Breitbart you mention and I think he’s a foolish conspiracy theorist nutjob. There may be more lefties than righties at Occupy Boston, but overall there are human beings there who know basic values about what is the right way for humans to treat each other. We are working to be self-sufficient and to heal the psychological and physical wounds that the society has embedded in us, as well as critiquing the society at large, especially the influence of money on policy.
The movement now moves into phase 2. This is an even more creative phase, and its beginnings can be seen in the invasions of elite meetings and press conferences of politicians and establishment figures by groups of people who do mic checks and disrupt the business-as-usual for minutes on end before they are escorted out. This has already happened to Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield and others. The movement will now likely decentralize and form small activist cells to take on the corrupt establishment in its places of business and recreation. We must not lose our good humor as we come up against the repressive hired forces of the establishment. Street theater tactics are the most effective in disarming angry reactions. Anger and violence begets more anger and violence. This time we need a revolution of good feelings and humanism even if we naturally feel outrage at the actions of a corrupt establishment desperate to protect its privileged position. The establishment will try to use tactics of divide and conquer to destroy this movement, but we won’t let that happen.
true that
We need to plant the seeds of other ways of being than to buy into the dominant system. We need to take care of each other rather than rely on the dysfunctional social services “safety net” like the shelters. We at Occupy Boston are doing these things. It’s not only about protesting — it’s more about the seeds of another world…. once we prove that we don’t need them, then we are free. They need us to need them. The 1% that is.
The movement now moves into phase 2. This is an even more creative phase, and its beginnings can be seen in the invasions of elite meetings and press conferences of politicians and establishment figures by groups of people who do mic checks and disrupt the business-as-usual for minutes on end before they are escorted out. This has already happened to Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield and others. The movement will now likely decentralize and form small activist cells to take on the corrupt establishment in its places of business and recreation. We must not lose our good humor as we come up against the repressive hired forces of the establishment. Street theater tactics are the most effective in disarming angry reactions. Anger and violence beget more anger and violence. This time we need a revolution of good feelings and humanism even if we naturally feel outrage at the actions of a corrupt establishment desperate to protect its privileged position. The establishment will try to use tactics of divide and conquer to destroy this movement, but we won’t let that happen.
I’ve got my NYPD hat on today – standing in solidarity with New York’s finest on a job well done.
So original, trolling on the Internet. That’s adorable!
yeah dude, 9/11 never forget (to treat your citizens like terrorists)
on November 15th, 2011 at 9:38 am #
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Hope Boston is next, i have a great view from my office window. LETS GO MUMBELS GET YOUR SHIT TOGEATHER>
In case anyone didn’t read it the first two times…
The movement now moves into phase 2. This is an even more creative phase, and its beginnings can be seen in the invasions of elite meetings and press conferences of politicians and establishment figures by groups of people who do mic checks and disrupt the business-as-usual for minutes on end before they are escorted out. This has already happened to Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield and others. The movement will now likely decentralize and form small activist cells to take on the corrupt establishment in its places of business and recreation. We must not lose our good humor as we come up against the repressive hired forces of the establishment. Street theater tactics are the most effective in disarming angry reactions. Anger and violence beget more anger and violence. This time we need a revolution of good feelings and humanism even if we naturally feel outrage at the actions of a corrupt establishment desperate to protect its privileged position. The establishment will try to use tactics of divide and conquer to destroy this movement, but we won’t let that happen.
hold on, just one more time…
The movement now moves into phase 2. This is an even more creative phase, and its beginnings can be seen in the invasions of elite meetings and press conferences of politicians and establishment figures by groups of people who do mic checks and disrupt the business-as-usual for minutes on end before they are escorted out. This has already happened to Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield and others. The movement will now likely decentralize and form small activist cells to take on the corrupt establishment in its places of business and recreation. We must not lose our good humor as we come up against the repressive hired forces of the establishment. Street theater tactics are the most effective in disarming angry reactions. Anger and violence beget more anger and violence. This time we need a revolution of good feelings and humanism even if we naturally feel outrage at the actions of a corrupt establishment desperate to protect its privileged position. The establishment will try to use tactics of divide and conquer to destroy this movement, but we won’t let that happen.
I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SAY
The movement now moves into phase 2. This is an even more creative phase, and its beginnings can be seen in the invasions of elite meetings and press conferences of politicians and establishment figures by groups of people who do mic checks and disrupt the business-as-usual for minutes on end before they are escorted out. This has already happened to Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield and others. The movement will now likely decentralize and form small activist cells to take on the corrupt establishment in its places of business and recreation. We must not lose our good humor as we come up against the repressive hired forces of the establishment. Street theater tactics are the most effective in disarming angry reactions. Anger and violence beget more anger and violence. This time we need a revolution of good feelings and humanism even if we naturally feel outrage at the actions of a corrupt establishment desperate to protect its privileged position. The establishment will try to use tactics of divide and conquer to destroy this movement, but we won’t let that happen.
i think blackberry posts 2x
Phase 2- was this voted on at GA?
I never saw a write up on it.
‘The movement will now likely decentralize and form small activist cells to take on the corrupt establishment in its places of business and recreation.’
=/=
‘The establishment will try to use tactics of divide and conquer to destroy this movement, but we won’t let that happen.’
id avoid using the term ‘cells’ going forward fwiw
I hope that Occupy Boston remains. I am living there, and it is proving to me the amazing capacity of human beings to solve their own problems by agreement, using their minds and hearts and innate creativity. We are becoming more self-sufficient, even within the constraints that we’re under — essentially under siege in terms of materials we can bring in to keep ourselves warm, and yet we will be completely fine this Winter due to the creativity of our group. We have absorbed homeless people, who are part of our movement just as much as any semi-privileged college student. Otherwise homeless people are contributing as much or more than many other people. We do have issues, sometimes, with people who have internalized violence or issues with drugs or misogynistic attitudes, but we are working on them, very hard. These problems exist in society. We are not creating them, we are addressing them. We are taking care of each other better than the city’s social services can, because we repect each other as equals, on the merits of our contributions attitudes and intentions. This is a nascent society in the making that is proving that we don’t NEED the 1% for our survival. In fact, the 1% NEED us to think that we NEED them. This is the most important lesson I have learned living at Occupy Boston. I wish I could be there all the time helping, but I do have a job and I still hope not to lose it … although I am tempted to quit it and do the more meaningful work of the newfound Occupation. If we get wiped out, it will be a messy battle. There will he very very strong nonviolent resistance. People will be chained to immovable objects. People will not be moved. People have great pride in their new society and sense of purpose. People will not give up something that they have built with their own hands and hearts. It is a movement toward self-sufficiency. It is not a set of “demands” that the state should provide more more more of everything. Most of us are realists while also being idealists.
Oh bloody hell. But you’ve not even come up with a platform! The frankly idiotic consensus approach you’re working with has prevented you from coming up with a message, any message, that people can get behind.
Congrats on helping the homeless, but the Occupy Movement is being wiped out as you send out self-congratulatory messages. You will be wiped out from the park – like many revolutions before you – and you haven’t accomplished anything other than feeling good about yourselves.
You’ve betrayed the 99 percent in your arrogance and your pride. You abandoned democracy in favor of your “horizontal democracy” which cannot accomplish anything. There are issues that need to be addressed, and you folks in the square refused to adapt to circumstances.
Barry, come on by, spend some time. You will see that plenty has happened. First of all, is helping the homeless — and being helped by the homeless — nothing at all? Is that not a statement and action in itself? That was unexpected, but in my opinion is a deeper critique of the gaping inequality in our society than any sign that anyone could make. Otherwise, there have been plenty of other decisions made, and made well, by the horizontal democracy that you disparage. I have been present and even made proposals that were met with healthy debate, critique, and often approval. We have also achieved a shift in the national and world debate on economic relations, haven’t we? I have spoken personally with dozens, hundreds of individuals about their core beliefs and mine, and their analysis of the economy, and mine … examined deeply the nature of social relations, and how to change it. Is that not something? Many people have gotten a taste of real analysis, as well as a microcosm of real mutual aid. Is that not something? This will not be forgotten even if it is wiped out physically tomorrow. We will retake spaces, and we have occupies people’s hearts and minds.
I’ve noticed a territorial sensibility among the occupiers that didn’t exist in the beginning. Outsiders don’t seem to feel as welcome as they once did (I’ve heard this from several people) Attitudes are hardening as those who live on public land start actually believing that they now own it. Occupy Boston has become about the occupation and those who live there. But I wish you all the best and have an admiration for what has grown from the ground up, even if I think it’s a visual blight upon the city.
Arnie, I agree with you. The change happened about a month ago.
The comments I hear from passersby in front of the Federal Bank are not positive. The message has been lost. It’s more about being in solidarity with other groups that have been raided rather than messages about the situation of the world.
And for gods’ sake guys – GET UP IN THE MORNING. I walked by today since my train ran late, and at 9:20 there’s a guy with a loudspeaker walking through the camp waking you all up. The 99% who have jobs see you sleeping in until mid-morning every day. I’ve yet to see an active camp during the morning commute. It’s extremely detrimental to your image. If you want to be taken seriously, get out of bed at a normal hour and get to work with the movement.