The new, portable, anti-protest street-sweeping device. Now in fun size:
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:
And what about all of the 99% who are just trying to get to work so they can feed their families, you misbegotten lumps of a pig’s backside? I guess if they’re not down for the struggle then F’ em huh? They will be harmed far more by your 1 day strike than the 1%. I use their terms to illustrate a point. I despise this balkanization of America. People are moving into the top 1 % all the time and also out of it if they make bad decisions. And as for enjoying the day without the 99% the producers in this country could get along fine if the 99% all dropped dead. It is the 99% who would be doomed without the 1%.
Now that's the kind of environmentalism I can support.
Yea, really; its like all the news is all about the “Coastie Commies”, day in and day out. Who gives a crap?
Bigger than 9/11??
No, no, bring it.
Both New York and San Fransicko are poster-children for the commisar-run communist gulag.
Those cities are more liberal than ever even *AFTER* the Moslems killed 3,000 people on 9-11-01.
They deserve the Occutards *AND* the Muzzloids.
You be careful, Vision. Stay safe. Hopefully, these cretins are all bluster.
The more these morons protest/occupy the greater conservative numbers grow. Handouts/Socialism/Marxism is their message, and people coast to coast are sick of it. This does nothing but damage democrats and the current administration. Keep going you idiots, the more you protest, the greater the chances of a Republican Senate & President!
The new, portable, anti-protest street-sweeping device. Now in fun size:
Speed bumps ensue.
The thugs continue to test Newton’s Third Law.
Speed bumps to ensue.
Thanks
My sentiments exactly.
Do you know what to call an Occupier that gets in the way of a NYC Cabbie?
A Bumper Sticker.
I think that New York can handle them.
The ol’ “circle o’ life”, don’cha know...
;-)
always depends on how the weather is.....
I was in NYC on 9/11, a few blocks from Ground Zero.
For the next few weeks and months, the city was united in standing up against the terrorists. A friend of mine was rescued by boat from Battery Park, and taken to Newark Hospital, where she saw a long line of what looked like drug thugs lined up at the hospital. She was frightened, until she learned that the Neward drug thugs had all gone to the hospital to give blood for the wounded—although there turned out not to be many wounded.
And for the next few weeks I found a different attitude in the subways. Normally you don’t make eye contact with strangers in the subway, but people were talking, including blacks and whites together. One black woman in the seat next to me told me about her three sons in the military.
Over the years since, that all fell apart. Giuliani did a great job of holding that spirit together, but since then, the Democrat politicians have destroyed it, and returned us to the usual race-baiting and other liberal ****. Bloomberg couldn’t take down the memorial sites, flowers, writings by schoolchildren in honor of dead firemen, and prayers from visitors any more quickly. I used to walk by the site of the Trade Towers regularly, and the change after Bloomberg came into office was astonishing.
Regretably, the people follow the lead of the politicians. But the people are not the primary source of this evil. It’s the politicians, putting them on the welfare plantation for their own greedy reasons.
Please send them to Detroit as well.
Although there is really not much to destroy here....
Don't forget Detroit - Black Panthers could help burn that one down...
Odd how when a liberal group makes threats, there's no blowback from Homeland Security. I wonder how these violent threats would be treated by Janet and the MSM if made by Tea Party members - or the NRA.
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