Occupy Wall Street National Day of Action: Live Updates From Downtown Manhattan

Village Voice ^ | 11/17/11 | Steven Thrasher

[M. Thatcher]

Today is November 17, the two month anniversary since Occupy Wall Street began. Protestors have declared today to be an International Day of Action, calling for people to "occupy their block," to "shut down Wall Street" starting at 7:00 AM, and to "occupy the subway" starting at 3:00 PM. We have been hearing that protestors, and the NYPD, will be amassing all over the city today, and will be live blogging dispatches from our own Village Voice staff writers Rosie Gray (@_rosiegray) and Nick Pinto (@macfathom), as well as photographer C.S. Muncy (@CSMuncyPhoto), who are on the scene through out lower Manhattan.

5:15 AM: From the anchor desk here in downtown Brooklyn, we hear a helicopter that sounds like it is heading towards Manhattan. Nick sends two pictures: this one appears to be on an NYPD roll call, just north of the Wall Street bull:

[toldyou]

LOL!

[LibertyRocks]

“Ultra-American” give me a break... Nothing *American* about protesting FOR socialism!

[snarkytart]

Goodness it’s only a thousand or so. The guard is a little bit of an over reaction.

[snarkytart]

Goodness it’s only a thousand or so. The guard is a little bit of an over reaction.

[Scanian]

Not surprising considering that the WS “shutdown” Stephen Lerner promised in May turn out to be a similar bust.

[Karliner]

Wow, I thought SF had all the crazies. Didn’t know NY was the leader. That live stream sure shows a LOT of computers, cell phones and more. All those police working OT, all those broken barriers, arrest them for destruction of city property. Must stink there. Does anyone in that rat hole even remember 9/11? Dam*ed waste of time and money on these turds.

[LibertyRocks]

LOL - We’re following the flag - the red and black flag.
Apparently this flag has been around since “Ancient Greece” according to the idiot holding it...
TELL THE TRUTH - It’s an anarcho-Syndicalist flag.

[Syncro]

A piece of chat from

http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc

makers. That’s how real change happens in our country. Solyndra anyone? Blocking Fannie & Freddie bonuses

M0thra: LOL at people getting bent out of shape about blocked streets in downtown Manhattan.

syracusan: The Federal Reserve bailed out the corporations!
warminsnow: What a $#%!%$ Mess the 1% have gotten the rest of us into...

csharp40: fat dude on CNN is f’n ridiculous

ahsmile: TO QUOTE> IF THEY SCREW US, WE MULTIPLY

Piretta: is this Tim?

carthurclark: Doubt it john Galt, I will just give many who actually merit leadership to come to the fore instead of the privileged keeping leadership to themselves.

unknownz: IF YOU ARE READING THIS RAYMOND LEWIS WAS ARRESTED FOR SUPPORTING OWS MOVEMENT

marijkeb: Apljax, you rock. Seriously. You have so much information to share!!! I wish I could hear more!

patriotinaction: I’ll be a candidate to uphold the Constution

ricksweet: Any body with half a brain knows not to listen to the media, Why even bring it up?

[Syncro]

The guy said the black represents hunger, and the red, social change

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Saw a little of the CNN coverage in the office cafeteria. The commentators were surprisingly not overly complimentary of the hippies.

[Eagle of Liberty]

“Ultra-American” give me a break... Nothing *American* about protesting FOR socialism!

Saw a post on that Ustream live thread that was pretty accurate. "A lot of liberals have good hearts but socialism/communism is NOT the answer."

Besides, they need to protest the RULE MAKERS. They are protesting the wrong city.

[snarkytart]

Well these people are Obama supporters so the deflection off of him onto big business is one of their goals.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Reporter says that many are filming the protests from ipads.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Their flag should be brown, to represent these moonbats taking a crap on police cars.

[Syncro]

Heh, that should be their flag!

[toldyou]

Switching back and forth from livestream to CNN and FOX...

CNN just interviewed a protester, who has been in NYC for three weeks, but lives in New Orleans. She just told the reporter, “This is our city.”

[NFHale]

“...The mayor of New York is a metrosexual pansy...”

Make that a “a fascist liberal gun-grabbing metrosexual socialist”.

Pansy is not accurate to describe him. You can bet your last dollar if this were a conservative Patriot/Tea Party gathering he’d act to crush it at the slightest provocation.

Don’t underestimate Bloomers. He IS the enemy, through and through and one slimey SOB.

[Raebie]

“Goodness it’s only a thousand or so. The guard is a little bit of an over reaction.”

Let’s see if you feel the same way around 5PM when all of those workers leave their businesses and try to get home. They will be running very short on patience.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Idiot is waving around an anarchist flag for others to follow. Cameraman asks what the colors represent and he says that "red means community and black means hunger, at least that was what I was told."

Actually, this flag:



is the symbol of the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist movements. Black is the traditional color of anarchism, and red is the traditional color of socialism. The red-and-black flag combines the two colors in equal parts, with a simple diagonal split. Typically, the red section is placed on the top-left corner, with the black on the bottom-right corner of the flag. This symbolizes the co-existence of anarchist and socialist ideals within the anarcho-syndicalism movement, and to symbolize the more socialistic means of the movement leading to a more anarchistic end. From Anarchist symbolism

[Syncro]

Thanks Eagle!