Occupy Wall Street plans Sept. 17 event but members face burnout (click here)
Besides the emotional burnout facing the movement, there are laws being passed designed to oppress the movement. It is difficult to maintain a movement if oppression is exerted rather than met with a willingness to hear their plea.
New York City Criminalizes Protests in the Context of OccupyWall Street (click title to entry - thank you)
New York City Criminalizes Protests in the Context of Occupy
JURIST Guest Columnist Emi MacLean, human rights attorney, argues that New York City has effectively criminalized protests by the actions taken against Occupy Wall Street since September 2011...
On July 25, 2012, the Protest and Assembly Rights Project — a coalition of law school clinics — published the first in a series of reports on the state response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the Police Response to Occupy Wall Street [PDF] focuses on New York City's response to the Occupy protests from their emergence in September 2011 until July 2012. The study compiles reports of repeated excessive or unnecessary use of force by the police, massive and continuous over-policing, poor communication during the policing of public demonstrations, obstruction of press freedoms, interference of independent legal monitoring, constant police surveillance, unjustified restrictions on the ability of individuals to peacefully assemble in public spaces, arbitrary rule enforcement and accountability and transparency failures.
Suppressing Protest demonstrates how police and city authorities in New York regularly apply laws, rules, and aggressive police use of force to arrest and disperse peaceful protests. Together, the facts indicate a pattern of the excessive use of state power to chill free speech and suppress peaceful protest. The use of force has been a ubiquitous and deeply disturbing feature of the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) strategy for the policing of public demonstrations. A table listing 130 incidents of alleged excessive use of force by police is included as an appendix to Suppressing Protest....
No feeding the homeless outdoors? Well, heck then, close down every outdoor cafe on the planet. This is more than oppression, it has the appearance of being able to round people up for removal from the streets. The reason won't matter in precedent. If the law can remove people on the street from eating, what is next? How does any police officer know if a person is homeless? What is to say eating McDonald's hamburgers or drinking Wendy's Frosty is illegal. This is one of the most stupid laws I have ever heard of, people have to eat and if the homeless are on the street than they have to eat on the street. What are they to do, starve? Seriously! No eating in public?
By Khadijah White
U.S. District Judge William Yohn's recent ruling (click here) against Philadelphia's ban on outdoor feeding of the homeless pleased me both philosophically and personally - personally because I had spent a night in jail after questioning police officers who were preventing opponents of the ban from participating in a public hearing. The case against me was dropped shortly after Yohn's ruling.
The city's outdoor feeding ban was part of a much larger legislative legacy of the Occupy movement in cities nationwide. It was rooted in attempts to restrict the free meals that had literally fueled the long-term Occupy Philadelphia encampment at City Hall....
Everyone to the Petting Zoo, eating on the street in public is allowed there!!!!
Everyone to the Petting Zoo, eating on the street in public is allowed there!!!!
Posted: 08/29/2012 09:34:05 PM MDT
Updated: 08/30/2012 02:48:01 PM MDT
Updated: 08/30/2012 02:48:01 PM MDT
A few Occupy Denver protesters with signs mingled unremarkably with bargain-hunters with tents outside the Sports Authority 's Denver Sports Castle Wednesday night.
"Tents for all" proclaimed one cardboard sign.
Occupy Denver, the outpost that sprang from the Occupy Wall Street anti-greed campaign last year, was maintaining a presence among the total of 11 tents. About 20 shoppers have staked out their places in line for Sniagrab 2012, the celebrated Labor Day shopping event for ski goods....
Posted Aug. 30, 2012, at 12:10 p.m.
Last modified Aug. 30, 2012, at 1:19 p.m.
Last modified Aug. 30, 2012, at 1:19 p.m.
...The publication in question is Vex, (click here) a new free weekly in Portland founded and edited by Mort Todd, a comic artist and former editor of Cracked magazine. Vex is mostly a collection of music listings, humor and comics, but a recent edition contained an editorial by Todd, writing under the pseudonym Lew G. Rant, that addressed a serious issue.
The owners of the Eastland Park Hotel want to buy an adjacent city park, Congress Square Plaza, and build a ballroom there. Members of Occupy Maine have organized in opposition to that plan, and city officials recently rejected the hotel’s bid, citing the value of urban open space. (The hotel reportedly plans to submit amended plans later this year.)
Todd’s editorial ripped the city and opponents of the hotel’s plan for siding with “vagrants” over developers who’d bring jobs and new revenue to town. As Todd observed, the ugly concrete square is “often empty, except for a regular troupe of a dozen or so indigents, smoking drinking, urinating and swearing.” Police calls for assaults and other disturbances are common....
Get this, #Occupy has reached a global effort; even China. The same capitalist complaints exist there, too.
This movement is incredible. It has far reaching dynamics, more so than the USA demonstrations of the 1960s. People around the globe are connecting to the message. Part of this identity with each other is where the 'globalist' movement started. Every country has been buying into the Wall Street model and there are problems with widespread capitalism. Identifying with each other is reaching where language barriers would normally stop it. That is not the case. I would not know how to speak Mandarin any more than Icelandic, but, there is profound understanding in the #Occupy movement. It is nothing short of amazing.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
It has been almost a year (click here) since the Occupy movement first put up its tents. Occupy Wall Street hit the headlines on September 17, 2011, with New Yorkers protesting against economic inequality and corporate greed.
This has led to copycat protests all over the world, with Hong Kong activists pitching their tents on the ground floor of HSBC's Central headquarters.
Wall Street had long gotten rid of its protesters but Hong Kong is still dealing with a handful of activists.
They are enjoying a rent-free life in the city's financial center and their tents have become an eyesore as well as an obstruction to pedestrians....
The First Anniversary of the movement is nearly upon us, it is time to #Occupy!
Get this, #Occupy has reached a global effort; even China. The same capitalist complaints exist there, too.
This movement is incredible. It has far reaching dynamics, more so than the USA demonstrations of the 1960s. People around the globe are connecting to the message. Part of this identity with each other is where the 'globalist' movement started. Every country has been buying into the Wall Street model and there are problems with widespread capitalism. Identifying with each other is reaching where language barriers would normally stop it. That is not the case. I would not know how to speak Mandarin any more than Icelandic, but, there is profound understanding in the #Occupy movement. It is nothing short of amazing.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
It has been almost a year (click here) since the Occupy movement first put up its tents. Occupy Wall Street hit the headlines on September 17, 2011, with New Yorkers protesting against economic inequality and corporate greed.
This has led to copycat protests all over the world, with Hong Kong activists pitching their tents on the ground floor of HSBC's Central headquarters.
Wall Street had long gotten rid of its protesters but Hong Kong is still dealing with a handful of activists.
They are enjoying a rent-free life in the city's financial center and their tents have become an eyesore as well as an obstruction to pedestrians....
The First Anniversary of the movement is nearly upon us, it is time to #Occupy!
