Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Together: No End In Sight

Occupy Wall Street Continues

Occupy Wall Street becomes Occupy Together

We are the 99%!!! Occupy Wall Street is now in the thousands—not hundreds as the media reports. An ABC News commentator asks, What’s driving these protesters and is this just the beginning? Perhaps he, and many like him, were not paying attention. They are now. The minute-by-minute updates from Liberty Square—in 30 states and across the world—is being broadcast through social media. After protesters were lured onto the Brooklyn Bridge by police, 700 of whom were arrested, the media finally began to take notice.

Occupy Wall Street started with fewer than a dozen college students spending days and nights in Zuccotti Park, a plaza near the city’s financial center. But a day after Saturday’s mass arrests, hundreds of protesters were resolute and like-minded groups in other cities had joined in.

From Russia Today, which is closely following the Occupy news.

As James Corbett at Corbett.com, noted, the Occupy movement, inspired by the Arab Spring, is now being called the American Spring. All protest movements like this start as political theater and reads as whether it can become more meaningful…. often it doesn’t do that… [but] there really is something going on here that will start to spread further. Billions of Euros are in danger of default. Many Europeans are calling for complete deconstruction and reconstruction of financial institutions.

Corbett also stated:

I think what is more interesting and more important, and potentially transfomrative about this movement is… it wasn’t Occupy D.C., it was Occupy Wall Street, which i think shows the idea that people are looking past the political theater taking place in Washington towards the real practices of political power which is located in the heart of the am empire of Wall Street, the finance capital… Washington and Wall Street are almost indistinguishable at this point.

Protests against issues such as global climate change, gas prices, corporate greed, financial chicanery. The Occupy Wall Street website says organizers took their inspiration in part from the Arab Spring demonstrations that tried to bring democracy across the Arab world.

Mainstream media still insists that the message of Occupy Together (as is now the case) is muddled, merely united by anger over a broken system that serves the wealthy and powerful at the expense of all others. The term “muddled” hardly describes the coalescence that is occurring hour-by-hour. Protesters dubbed their block of Lower Manhattan “Liberty Square.” The area has had an around-the-clock home for two weeks. The “muddled” movement has grown into a little city with a media center and library, a kitchen—even a medical clinic.

The demonstrators now have their own newspaper, The Occupy Wall Street Journal. The sheer lack of leadership of the movement and commitment of the people involved clearly demonstrates an un-“muddled” Occupy movement.

Protester Brendan Burke insists he and others fight for more than 99% of the American population. Everyone has this problem. White, black. Rich or poor. Where you live. Everyone has a financial inequity oppressing them.

Thanks to mainstream media shying away from the protests, few heard of Occupy Wall Street two weeks ago. Now, after 15 straight days, prominent celebrities are joining the fight. Michael Moore is tweeting frequent updates and Susan Sarandon have added their voice to the protestors.

Powerful labor unions, such as the Airline Pilots’ Union and the Teamsters, are now backing the Occupy movement with hundreds of thousands of members and millions of dollars behind them. Although the protest started in Wall Street, other cities are participating across the nation in solidarity as Occupy Together.

Still, many news organizations broadcast that the movement has far to go before attaining tea party-like influence. Occupy Wall Street backers are sending a message and contribute to talking points during the 2012 campaign. Republicans may cite the Occupy movement as a referendum on the president’s failures; President Obama and the Democrats may counter the country can no longer support wealthy conservatives who manipulated a financial crisis in America and across the world.

Some tea party members have been down to Liberty Square to lend their support. Both groups are fed up with the status quo. The protesters disavow political affiliation with Democrats or Republicans.

Occupy Los Angeles began two days ago, and is gaining momentum. In contrast to the 700 people trapped on the Brooklyn Bridge by the NYPD,the LAPD’s attitude regarding Occupy Los Angeles seems markedly different:

Tents and blankets dotted the lawn in front of City Hall on Sunday, as people came and went from the encampment. Some stood on the sidewalk holding signs. Sunday night passing cars periodically honked in a show of support.

“It’s been a very peaceful demonstration,” Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Mitzi Fierro said. “They’re out there exercising their First Amendment right, so we’re going to allow them to continue as long it doesn’t become an unlawful assembly.”

Following a procedure established Saturday night, the protesters were to be moved from the grass on the south lawn of City Hall to the sidewalk at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, and back from the pavement to the lawn at 6 a.m. Monday.

A protestor uploaded a clip just 20 minutes ago on You Tube:

Despite concerns about police brutality, a protestor said, side with them because their pensions are under attack, their overtime is under attack, so once they realize their actually part of this movement I foresee no problems.

One protester said, simply, We’re Americans.

Mad Mike’s America thanks ABC News, Russia Today, PressTV, Bloomington Illinois State University Paper, the Pantagraph.com, and the Los Angeles Times.

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