I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation where what had started as a political movement and a political encampment ended up being an encampment that was no longer in control of the people who started them. And what I think you’re starting to see is that the Occupy movement is now looking for more stability.Oakland Mayor Jean Quan • Speaking to The Takeaway about the Occupy movement, noting in particular that she’s talking to other mayors about the movement, and seemingly trying to make decisions for them. “There’s been a lot of… talking to peaceful demonstrators…who wanted to separate themselves from anarchists,” she continued. “They’re now looking for a private space where they can go to do community organizing around the issues that started the movement, so I think you’re going to find that…the encampments are going to try to move to place where they’re not in direct conflict with the public.”
via evanfleischer:
“When the cops raided Zuccotti Park, lawyers for Occupy Wall Street immediately woke up a judge with a civil liberties background and asked for help. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings signed an early-morning order temporarily barring cops from keeping protesters and tents out of Zuccotti Park. But within hours, she was off the case as court administrators prepared to randomly choose a new judge — and excluded Billings’ name from the list of candidates.”
Hrm.
Occupy Wall Street at Duarte Park in Lower Manhattan this morning. This is where a lot of protesters relocated after last night’s raid on Zuccotti Park.
- A few hundred protesters
- 30-40 police
- BIG media presence
- Counted 6 helicopters circling above!
- Protester message focused on going back to Zuccotti Park (“We have lawyers down there right now!”)
Check this out: Timeline Of Occupy Wall Street’s Eviction From Zuccotti Park
Highly recommend their timeline. No commentary, just a bunch of images and tweets from last night and this morning.
I’m w/ a NY Post reporter who says he was roughed up by riot police as Zuccotti was cleared. He thinks violence was ‘completely deliberate.’The New York Times’ Brian Stelter • Discussing some of the violence and roadblocks journalists faced last night when trying to cover the Zuccotti Park eviction. Journalists faced much trouble trying to tell a difficult story last night, as there are reports that they were kept long distances away and prevented from providing information to readers about what was happening in the cleanup. As Mediaite so eloquently put it, “Press badges apparently meant nothing.”
Unoccupied Zuccotti Park. Via Azi
Sure, it’s clean, but lots of people would prefer it messy.
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Perhaps indicative of the mentality behind this morning’s action. [via]
This was one of the more depressing details from last night’s raid.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lupkd3Lw6C1qdsldwo1_500.jpg)
Perhaps indicative of the mentality behind this morning’s action. [via]
This was one of the more depressing details from last night’s raid.
Liberate. Occupy. You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Meanwhile the movement gets a second wind despite catastrophic loss.
(Source: monicawendel)
New York City is the city where you can come and express yourself. What was happening in Zuccotti Park was not that.Mayor Michael Bloomberg • Offering a tough take on Occupy Wall Street this morning, after a long night in which police randomly showed up at the encampment’s door and gave protesters 20 minutes to vacate. The mayor seemed to imply with his statement that safety concerns trumped First Amendment concerns, which is perhaps a dangerous take on the law. source (via • follow)
With a judge issuing a temporary order allowing protesters, with tents if they choose, back inside their former encampment at Zuccotti Park, protesters who had regrouped at Foley Square, about 12 blocks north of Zuccotti, have already started marching back.
Dashiell Bennett has the full details on what happened at Zuccotti over night. Protesters began arriving at Foley Square, around 4 a.m., and by 8 a.m. a kitchen had been set up, drummers drummed, and a crowd had arrived en masse. The protesters started moving from Foley at around 8 a.m., with the plan to march from back to Zuccotti via City Hall (where Mayor Michael Bloomberg is holding a press conference) and the intersection of Canal and Sixth Avenue. But according to Firedog Lake contributor Cynthia Kouril, police blocked them from City Hall.
A judge ruled this morning that the police couldn’t keep protesters and their gear from Zuccotti Park (see below) but scheduled a hearing for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning where the city will need to “show cause” for its eviction of the protesters. Read more.
Man, we step away for five hours and a judge already makes a ruling on Zuccotti Park? Damn, that’s service.
(Source: theatlantic)
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Hat tip to this headline writer.
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oh my god but that’s a lot of cops on broadway
no seriously i’m going to bed but watch that stream, follow @kelsium, she’s following closely too. on twitter, follow @_rosiegray, @joshharkinson, @newyorkist, @rdevro, @megancarpentier, @melissagira, @alisonkilkenny, @harrysiegel.
We’re finally getting some sleep ourselves. Hop to that link for more coverage. We’ll be back tomorrow morning with more coverage of the closing of the Zuccotti Park encampment. Crazy night for news friends. Just crazy. We hope that things don’t escalate further, and hope tomorrow is a day of rebuilding.
It’s a Brave New World, people.
This is neat, the NY Times frontpage has a direct link to an occupy feed. With the arrest of a NYT reporter and with all of the problems that reporters are experiencing at the park, is this their version of flipping the NYPD the middle finger?
And to think, at first the coverage was so slow-going. Now the NYT is effectively giving the Occupy movement a huge bump: A link on the front page.
VIDEO of NYPD surrounding Zuccotti to evict Occupy Wall Street in midnight raid.
We’re posting updates on what’s going on in NYC (second video listed).
In case you were wondering how this whole mess started.
From @DemocracyNow, a massive pile of discarded tents and abandoned supplies left behind at Occupy Wall Street as police order protesters out.
One man’s treasure is another… groaaaan.
Oh man. Don’t even know what to say.
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