Posted on 10/31/2011 4:38:48 AM PDT by Evergolightly
(CBSNewYork) – Saturday’s snow storm made life in Zuccotti Park miserable for Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Demonstrators were left drenched with rain and then snow as the storm moved through the region. Central Park set a record for both the date and the month of October with 2.9 inches of snow.
Those camping out in the park have been stockpiling donated blankets, scarves, coats and have been trying to get more tents, cots and tarps.
According to an “urgent” alert on their website, OWS is looking for a number of other donations, including waterproof boots, gloves, hats, hand and foot warmers and disposable foot covers among other things. The site says the protesters “are in need of emergency supplies crucial for cold weather survival (and occupation).”
The site says they also need cots to get protesters off the ground, adding that they don’t have any and “could really use these.”
Reportedly, some have been even getting winter weather survival tips from the homeless.
They say they’re also looking for thermal heaters after fire officials removed six of the protesters’ gas-powered generators from Zuccotti Park on Friday, saying it was safety issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
Cots are cheap at the army navy store, plus it would help the local economy.
What is the $454k in donations for?
Why do they need handouts?
Sounds like we have another valley forge, general
Evil corporations make those things, you can’t have it both ways, dumbasses.........
I wonder if any of the ‘organizations’ contributing to the OWS event (and such others) are getting tax break for their ‘charitable donations’
Is this the absolute cranial-rectal-inversion limit of ‘the world turned upside down’???
I still think we should spray them at night with firehoses. The cold and pneumonia sound like cures for what ails them.
Looks like I need to get me some REI stock. Their parents will be buying them all sorts of nice stuff there.
—Evil corporations make those things...—
Where I live, there are lots of Amish quilts. Maybe I could send them some. But they’d need to pay in advance, and stuff made by hand, rather than evil corporations, tends to be prohibitively expensive.
Anybody watch the live stream of them over the weekend. This repeat what the speakers says is creepy.
They were even entertaining Angela Davis in NY this weekend. What is with the hand and finger movements?
These people can not live on their own without help from someone. If they can order it off the shelves; they can exist.
Language is the ultimate foundation of capitalism, so they’re trying to forget ther A’s, B’s, and C’s.
I didn’t watch.
Angela Davis... ?? Is she still the fist-in-the air ‘I Hate America/I hate the world’ POS that she ever was??
She should have stayed in Russia!
“What is the $454k in donations for?”
That money is gone. OWS leadership probably took it as expenses for their stay at the Waldorf and meals at Lu tece
Link?
The remaining 50% of the time, he spent asking people to bring him pizza, or a hamburger. He finally got some action when he offered $5 for a slice.
These people can not live on their own without help from someone. If they can order it off the shelves; they can exist.
OWS and the terminally homeless have a lot in common. America has been supporting them for years with food banks, shelters, free this and free that. When free stops, and reality sets in that money is what runs this world and that we are fast running out of free money, perhaps, the producers of the world will get the attention of the leaches of society.
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This will be an extremely good lesson in energy for the protesters. The bike will serve one purpose only: it will keep the pedaler warm for a few minutes. The amount of energy it will generate will be so trivial, that it won't even keep an laptop charged.
I smell a scam here.
Here’s a cool idea: let’s deliver hundreds and hundreds of truckloads of left boots only -enough to occupy the space. Overwhelm them with what they asked for—paralyze their infrastructure and BRING THE SOCIALIST PIGS TO THEIR KNEES!!! Then, let’s seize their assets from the accounts at the banks they hate, to compensate taxpayers for all our money that mayors and governors have spent subsidizing their numbskulled folly. Then, let’s sue the mayors and governors for malfeasance, abuse of the public trust, failure to enforce the law, and unequal protection under the law.
They can send Barry the bills for the legal fees. Maybe he’ll defend them himself.
My thoughts exactly.
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