» An attempt to move the show: This is the second weekend in a row that protests have been squashed at the park. Why’s that? Well, a group of protesters are attempting to move the protests outside of the city’s financial district. However, they haven’t gotten permits. “We are going to hold this space, and that’s what we are going to do,” said organizer Brit Schulte. “Our ability to invoke our civil rights to protest shouldn’t be limited, and we shouldn’t be censored.”
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The Occupy movement is gaining some serious global reach today… This is a shot of #OccupyRome. Follow Reuters’ live blog of the widespread protesting in places like London, Vancouver, Brussels, Toronto, Belgrade, Vienna, and of course… Wall Street itself.
(Photo Credit: Mario Laporta/AFP/Getty)
Yikes. As our Tumblr buddy Josh Sternberg put this on Twitter, “[The violence is] not surprising when you look at the last couple of years in Italy. What is surprising is that there’s no violence elsewhere.” Don’t look at Occupy through this single lens. Evan Fleischer has been doing some great work at emphasizing the scale of the events, covering small pieces from around the world. Don’t start and end with Rome. That’s not the full picture.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt4cp1QNFr1qchhhqo1_500.jpg)
The Occupy movement is gaining some serious global reach today… This is a shot of #OccupyRome. Follow Reuters’ live blog of the widespread protesting in places like London, Vancouver, Brussels, Toronto, Belgrade, Vienna, and of course… Wall Street itself.
(Photo Credit: Mario Laporta/AFP/Getty)
Yikes. As our Tumblr buddy Josh Sternberg put this on Twitter, “[The violence is] not surprising when you look at the last couple of years in Italy. What is surprising is that there’s no violence elsewhere.” Don’t look at Occupy through this single lens. Evan Fleischer has been doing some great work at emphasizing the scale of the events, covering small pieces from around the world. Don’t start and end with Rome. That’s not the full picture.
Those who are carrying out what is nothing less than urban guerrilla warfare are hurting the cause of people around the world who are trying to freely express their discontent with the world economic situation.Italian Democratic Party leader Pierluigi Bersani • Separating the violent protesters in Rome from the overall occupy movement, while noting the damage they’re causing to the larger, nonviolent movement. Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno made a similar distinction, noting that “There are groups of violent people that need to be isolated.” It’s a good sign that Italian officials can see the difference between a peaceful movement and the violent elements attempting to co-opt it for their own reasons. source (via • follow)
» Highest and lowest saturations: While North America, Europe and South America have a particularly high number of protests, Africa, Asia and the Middle East are looking a little thin. Australia’s somewhere in the middle. While many of the protests have been peaceful, some have gotten violent, most notably in Rome, where anarchists drew attention away from peaceful protests.
The Occupy movement’s first casualty? While authorities aren’t entirely sure whether or not the death — a 42-year-old man who jumped eight stories off a parking structure near the protest site — was directly related to the protests, the death nonetheless cast a bit of a pall on the still-young protest, which has drawn a crowd of hundreds in San Diego. The man had flyers in his pockets (officials haven’t released details on what was said on the flyers), but it was unclear whether they were directly related to the Occupy protest happening nearby, or whether his death was a suicide. Nonetheless, organizers said there would be a moment of silence on Monday in honor of the man. source
This could be the tipping point. I marched against the Vietnam war before I was drafted into the army and this movement is now getting towards that critical mass.Former Silicon Valley executive Dick Steinkamp • Explaining why he’s chosen to take part in the Occupy Seattle protests. Folks like Steincamp, a 63-year-old firmly in the “Baby Boomer” camp, have added themselves to the Occupy movement in recent days, giving the movement significant age diversity and making it something that’s becoming much larger than its original starting point. Roughly 70 major cities now have their own Occupy movement, as well as 600 smaller communities. Last week’s Brooklyn Bridge arrests really gave the movement a spark — now it’s spreading at full speed. source (via • follow)
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