#D17. Time to assemble once more. This kid’s got an attitude that you just can’t fix. Pepper spray. Truncheons. Gas. Confinement. The discourse of our world is shifting. From pole to pole, from East to West, people are rising up! Let’s celebrate our successes and dream up new offensives. Here’s to the Year of the Dragon, from all of us here at Adbusters. Take Back the Commons - D17 | Occupy Wall Street Video. Occupynyc-D17 reoccupy nyc | occupyoceania. Bishop George Packard leads Occupy Wall Street into Trinity Church's empty lot. #d17 Invasion of Trinity property - Duarte Square - 6th & Canal - OWS. OWS takes Trinity Church property at Duarte Plaza. The arrests. Cops stop ‘Occupy’ storming at Trinity Church Bryan Smith for New York Daily News The church-owned lot was the scene of arrests last month when some demonstrators tried to take over the space after the NYPD removed them from Zuccotti Park. About 100 Occupy Wall Street protesters flooded the Trinity Church property they had vowed to take over in lower Manhattan on Saturday but were quickly pursued by police.
The protesters, who were gathering all day next to the lot, erected and climbed over portable wooden steps in the late afternoon in a bid to “reoccupy.” Retired New York Espiscopal Diocese Bishop George Packard — once a military chaplain in Iraq — was the first over the chain-link fence that surrounded the lot and the first one arrested. Others soon followed. Once they were inside area, said Mike Sweeney, 22, the scene turned to chaos. “I just saw everyone starting to run,” said Sweeney, of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “[Police\] came in with the clubs out and ready to hit people. He said he escaped by going under the fence. VIDEO: Mass Arrests Of Occupiers At Duarte Square. Josh Harkinson Updated December 18th at 9:00 a.m. For weeks, Occupy Wall Street has been talking about occupying a vacant lot next to Duarte Square in SoHo. On Saturday, it walked the talk. At about 3:30 p.m, several hundred marchers left the square along with two large wooden ladders concealed beneath banners.
They circled the block and converged at the lot's northwest corner, where they hoisted one of the ladders up to a tall chain-link fence. After Packard tumbled over the fence, he climbed onto a wooden bench and waved for the crowd to follow. Here's Packard discussing it all with fellow occupiers while riding to jail in a paddy wagon: That morning, things had gotten off to an ominous start when police detained and arrested Zach, one of the organizers, while he was walking across a nearby public park. Occupy Wall Street had a variety of motivations for occupying the lot, which is owned by Trinity Church but not currently being used for anything. Inside Occupy Wall Street's Next Occupation. At first glance, Occupy Wall Street's plan to take over a gravel lot in SoHo tomorrow seems a bit strange. After all, the property isn't all that close to Wall Street. It's owned by Trinity Church, which hardly seems like the kind of symbolic target that OWS found in Brookfield Office Properties, the politically connected owner of Zuccotti Park.
And the occupiers have already gotten free food and meeting spaces from Trinity; they now risk the appearance of biting the hand that feeds them. Of course, organizers behind #D17, as the occupation attempt is known on Twitter, see things differently. Trinity Church is one of the city's largest landowners and strongly tethered to the 1 percent: Five of the 20 members of its vestry, or church parliament, for example, hail from high-ranking roles at financial firms such as Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, and others come from the insurance behemoth AIG, a market research firm for energy investors, and even Brookfield. OWS Campers: What Can We Occupy Next? Protesters occupy a Bank of America branch in downtown San Francisco, California. See the rest of Mother Jones photo editor Mark Murrman's photos of the incident here . What will the evicted residents of Zuccotti Park occupy next?
Will it be Duarte Plaza, a triangular patch of brick and gravel owned by Trinity Church in Tribeca? Foreclosed and abandoned buildings in Harlem and the Lower East Side? Nearby colleges or small towns? Or something less tangible? At a 40-person meeting Saturday to discuss the issue, not everyone thought that retaking a public space would be worthwhile. Others argued that OWS has a duty to revive the country's first and most symbolic occupation. Even before last week's police raid and eviction of campers from the park, the movement's organizers were working to set up satellite occupations around the city. "The idea of an occupation is obviously to hold it and grow it," says Sandy Nurse. Duarte Plaza: Ask Now, Take Later? Nurse and her comrades are unbowed. Mr. Share photos and videos on Twitter. "I was born to occupy love not hatred." - Antigone.
Johnknefel. Ryan Devereaux: The cop in the khakis punc... Samalcoff: Officer Iaquinto 2253 phys... Newyorkist: Saw Democracy Now reporter... Ryan Devereaux: For the second time today... Ryan Devereaux: Santa and his girlfriend,... 6529941797_a5ba488111_b. Paddy wagon to central booking w/ Bishop George Packard D17. Jesse Hlebo: #D17 got intense!! Carly w... Bishop, Priest, Protestor Arrested in Trinity Wall Street/Occupy Clash. To chants of “We are unstoppable, another world is possible,” retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard this afternoon led Occupy Wall Street protestors in climbing over the fence at Duarte Square, a property owed by Trinity Wall Street, the iconic Episcopal church now mired in controversy over its refusal to allow the movement to set up camp for the winter in the park.
[image credit: Episcopal Café] Episcopal Café reported that Packard and Episcopal priest John Merz were arrested along with several other protesters. It had been hoped that a letter from South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the #OWS community yesterday would sway local, diocesan, and national church leadership to soften their stance toward the movement on the basis of “the higher calling of Our Lord Jesus Christ--which they live so well in all other ways.” Retired Episcopal Bishop to Join Occupation of Church-Owned Square | Faith in Public Life. Retired Episcopal Bishop to Join Occupation of Church-Owned Square As the Occupy Wall Street organizers continue to search for a public gathering space to resume their work after being forcibly removed from Zuccotti Park, Trinity Wall Street Episcopal Church continues to deny the movement’s request for access to the vacant, church-owned Duarte Square.
Instead, they’ve chosen to have the police arrest anyone who enters — a decision that has provoked an outcry from thousands of people of faith across the country. As we highlighted, Trinity has even refused the pleas of retired Episcopal bishop George Packard, who has been serving as a negotiating mediator for the Occupiers. After the latest round of dialogue broke down, Bishop Packard has announced on his blog that he plans to participate in Occupy’s non-violent occupation of Duarte Square this Saturday. Packard explains: Trinity might mobilize platoons of police in riot gear and ring this sad little space with multiple barricades. The Other 99, Ustream.TV: -Twitter- @Timcast @TheOther99 This channel is being maintained by The Other 99. We continue to be a primary source from the.
Ryan Devereaux: "Wall St, Times Sq, occupy... Occupy Wall St. arrests after church lot breached. New York -- Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to an Episcopal church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp site. Protesters used a ladder to scale the fence or lifted it from below while others cheered them on. A man in a Santa suit stood on the ladder with others as they ignored "Private Property" signs. As officers made arrests, protesters shouted obscenities and hollered: "Make them catch you! " "We're just trying to say that this country has gone in the wrong direction, and we need spaces that we can control and we can decide our future in, and that's what this is about," said David Suker, who was among those who scaled the fence.
Before the arrests, several hundred gathered in Duarte Square, a half-acre wedge of a park at the edge of Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood and across the street from the vacant lot. "There are no facilities at the Canal Street lot. Media Have Another Rough Night With NYPD at OWS #D17; Cops Threatened to Take Photogs' Press Passes. Occupy Wall Street spent yesterday in a day-long struggle to occupy a new space (first Duarte Square, then One New York Plaza) on the three-month anniversary of the movement. Over the course of 12 hours, protests ranged from Duarte Square and its Trinity Wall Street-owned and OWS-coveted vacant lot to Times Square to, eventually, One New York Plaza, a Brookfield-owned property near the Staten Island Ferry.
Two attempts at occupying a new space failed, and at least 50 arrests were made. Meanwhile, the assembled press gaggle was having an almost equally rough night. Two photographers say that police threatened to take their official press passes away, a credentialed cameraman was hit over the head with a baton, and another photographer was arrested. During the invasion of Trinity's lot next to Duarte Square around 3:30, a number of photographers went over the fence with protesters.
One was arrested, freelancer Zach Roberts. Meanwhile, a Democracy Now! [rgray@villagevoice.com] [@_rosiegray] OCCUPYWALLSTREET: We'll leave it 2 the histo...