Posted on 04/30/2012 8:13:40 AM PDT by ShadowAce
As part of Occupy Wall Street’s call for a nationwide “general strike” May 1, elements within the group are looking to shut down bridges and tunnels in both New York and San Francisco.
Occupy Oakland, the most radical of all the local Occupy groups, passed a resolution April 15 that vows to shut down all travel from Marin to San Francisco.
“If any of the unions on the Golden Gate bridge declare a strike or shutdown action on May Day, we will act in solidarity with these striking workers and the international call for a general strike on May Day, by blockading the flow of capital to the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District. This will be accomplished by a collaboration of pickets and direct action which will shut down all modes of transportation from Marin to San Francisco,” went the statement on the website Occupythebridge.com.
The May Day Flier from the Golden Gate Labor Coalition calls for a protest next to the bridge that insists the Bridge District also: “don’t reduce vested retiree benefits,” “don’t reduce current employees’ benefits” and “don’t reward non-union employees with raises while breaking promises to union workers.”
The East Coast response to this shutdown call comes from the website Strikeisaverb.net and claims: “autonomous direct action groups within Occupy Wall Street, as a part of the global mobilizations for general strike and economic non-compliance, will block one or more Manhattan-bound bridge or tunnel to protest the shameful opulence of the 1%.”
The announcement went on to cite how Occupy Wall Street had shut the Brooklyn Bridge and another closure of that bridge, as well as the Holland Tunnel. The release claimed: “But this May 1, we will create the biggest shut down the city of New York has ever seen.” “We are announcing these blockades now as a fair warning to the rest of the working people of New York and New Jersey who are considering joining the strikes and mobilizations of the day: the city will be shut down, so enjoy the day without the 99%!” warned the site.
Occupy Wall Street has been a global anti-capitalism protest that, according to OccupyArrests, has resulted in 6,877 arrests so far. While the movement went largely dormant over the winter, it has vowed to come strong in the spring.
That comeback is supposed to be May 1, when the group has promised: “Millions of people throughout the world — workers, students, immigrants, professionals, houseworkers — employed and unemployed alike — will take to the streets to unite in a General Strike against a system that does not work for us.”
The May 1 rally is being organized by a coalition of Occupy Wall Street, Alliance for Labor Rights, Immigrant Rights, Jobs for All, May 1st Coalition for Immigrant & Worker Rights and “Immigrant & Community Organizations.”
At least 83 groups are listed as endorsing the general strike, many of them unions. Those include several locals from the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Service Employees International and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America.
Several radical groups are part of the coalition, including: the Freedom Socialist Party, the anti-Israel group Labor for Palestine, and the NYS District Communist Party USA.
At least two journalist unions are part of the protest. Those include:
There is NOTHING wrong with the “occupy movement” that Tasers, Tear Gas, Pepper Spray, Batons, Fire Hoses and Rubber Bullets cannot fix.
The state-of-the-art water cannon truck "WaWe 10".
The four-meter-high colossus is armed with three cannon on the front and sides, which shoot water to a distance of 60 meters. Anyone who gets in the way can expect serious bruises and even broken ribs.
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I telecommute on Tuesdays, so unless they occupy the hallway between my bedroom and office I’m going to skip this one.
OWS picked the best targets to demonstrate and reign chaos. Both cities are financial centers, both cities are liberal and headed by liberal mayors. Perfect because liberal gov and mayors are frozen to act as their leftwing companions rampage thru the city. Can’t club and arrest their own voters, need them in Novemeber.
Shoot these vermin for endangering the public’s safety
Yeah, those anarchistic stunts will garner them lots of sympathisers.....
International call???
Good. Why limit it to May 1?
“Would the media still propagandaize it as ‘important’?”
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Of course.
Reliably and devotedly, since the assent of the destructive, Communist “counterculture” in the mid 1960’s...
What is hilarious is that the ones who consider themselves 99%’ers are actually probably less than 1% of the population...*LOL*
Yes, I miss that sharing, caring feeling that surrounded us in the days after 9/11. No honking horns, you stuck in traffic and open your windows to talk to your neighbor in the car next to you. It was really a wondrous time (not taking into account the TT) Everyone knew someone that knew someone, on and on. We were united, race, religion nothing mattered except that we, as NY’ers were hurting.
That day was primary day and there was talk about Guiliani staying on for another run, Bloomy wasn’t having it. Then the SOB turns around, wheels and deals and he’s in for the 3rd term. I love NY but it is turning into a cesspool.
National Guard and headshots... but NY will drop trou and lube up... enjoy the arse rape boyz!
LLS
Kill ‘em and let God sort ‘em out!
MHG wrote in#46:
Shoot these vermin for endangering the public’s safety
Patience...patience...patience...
You'll have your chance sooner than later when the communists of all stripes overreach and make the fatal mistake of attacking all of us to intimidate us and ensure 0b0z0's reelection through violence, they think. They'll be defended by the communist media who will vilify Americans for defending their families, property and the Republic.
The communists and their media allies shouldn't escape this time. The primary culprit IS the media. They'll have to be "reeducated" together with their professors in academia to be American.
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I wonder if the NYPD and SFPD are hiring/training an auxiliary division for riot control??
This is actually very funny if you sit and think about it. Pelosi’s district and who is the big fella from Manhattan that looks like Jaba the Hut?
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