Kettling the Cops. NYPD: Only One Journalist Was Arrested During Occupy Wall Street. The New York Police Department is drawing fire for saying that stories of multiple journalist arrests during the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests are a "myth. " Paul Browne, a top spokesman for the NYPD, made the comment during an interview with the local Queens Chronicle. He said that only one reporter was arrested. In the interview with him was Ray Kelly, the commissioner of the NYPD: Kelly also said the NYPD was unfairly criticized over its removal of protesters from Zuccotti Park last year, saying the people who were arrested had defied legal orders to leave the park and were pushing through police lines after monitoring department radios to learn what officers were planning. Paul Browne, the deputy commissioner for public information, who accompanied Kelly to the interview, added that only one journalist was arrested during the operation, despite stories to the contrary, which he called "a total myth.
" Related on HuffPost: 5/29 Occupy The CCA! Come and Join US to OCCUPY! Los Angeles: Join The Seven Day Siege Of The CCA. Join LA CAN, Occupy the Hood, Occupy Skid Row and Occupy Los Angeles at Wilshire/Hope (626 Wilshire Blvd.) at 8:30pm tonight to fight gentrification and the corrupt practices of the lobby group Central City Association. BRING TENT.
We are peacefully gathering to protest the Economic Development Meeting and the downtown 2020 plan to build new high rises, the AEG Stadium and further criminalize and push out the homeless. The CCA is the localized manifestation and microcosm of everything wrong with policy, the 1% and obsession with wealth and prestige. In this hyper-localized resistance, everyone must fight the bully in their respective backyards, as a community. We have power in numbers and will be OCCUPYING the CCA, who monitors the public spaces of downtown with private security for the one percent.
We wrapped on what was a productive and spirited second day, occupiers! No Elections Under Military Rule: Solidarity With The Egyptian Revolution. Egyptians occupy Tahir Square on June 2, 2012 to demand a new revolution in the wake of the Mubarak trials Today in San Francisco, Egyptians, Arabs, and Occupiers in the Bay Area are marching in solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution. Gather at Union Square (SF) at 6:30pm Pacific time! More info.
You may remember “To the Occupy Movement” a letter of solidarity from Egyptian revolutionaries calling themselves ‘Comrades from Cairo’. A new letter has emerged bearing this signature, this one attacking the fraudulent and reactionary practice of elections. Down with all elections! Solidarity to all who struggle against the capitalist states whose preferred method of stealing agency is electoral freedom of choice. By Comrades from Cairo To you at whose side we struggle, Egyptians now find themselves in a vulnerable moment. According to election officials, most voters themselves (75%) have chosen neither Shafiq nor Morsi in the first round of elections. Joseph Stiglitz on Occupy Wall Street & Why U.S.-Europe Austerity Will Only Weaken Economic Recovery. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Joseph Stiglitz, you have spoken about the austerity measures that have been imposed across Europe or that are being considered across Europe, and you’ve said that they’re, quote, "a suicide pact. " Can you say what you mean by that? JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Well, in Europe, these measures of austerity are going to make the countries weaker and weaker. I predicted that when Europe began that back in 2010 in Greece, when the Greek crisis first emerged.
What’s happened is, Greece has become successively weaker and weaker, to the point where the youth unemployment now is 50 percent, political turmoil is breaking out. So, the point is that we’ve done this experiment in austerity over and over again. AMY GOODMAN: I mean, is it only Europe? REP. AMY GOODMAN: That’s House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan, a Wisconsinite like Governor Scott Walker. AMY GOODMAN: Where do you get the money? JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Very much so. Sunday, June 3: NYC Solidarity Summer Coordinating Meeting. City-wide Coordinating Meeting for Solidarity with the Quebec Student Strike and Escalating Our Struggles TIME: Sunday, June 3rd 6pmLOCATION: 16 Beaver St., NYC Every night for over a week, Occupy Wall Street activists have taken to the streets of New York to march for affordable education and against police repression, in solidarity with the massive, ongoing student uprising taking place in Quebec and now spreading across the world. As protesters have in Argentina, in Chile, in Spain and now in Canada, we bang pots and pans as we march — a practice called casseroles or caceroladas.
Now, we are calling for a SOLIDARITY SUMMER based on a diversity of tactics, a variety of actions, and a broad range of participants. Quebec students are currently waging the biggest student strike in recent history, an unlimited general strike that has galvanized massive popular support. Long live the unlimited student strike! From Spain: Bankia Is Mordor. Our comrades in Spain haven been occupying local banks with lively noise demos and caceroladas, or pot-banging protests, in Barcelona, Madrid, and other cities.
In Barcelona, protesters have targeted La Caixa in a campaign called Occupy Mordor, a reference comparing the bank to the land of evil from J.R.R. Tolkien mythology. The Spanish government recently bailed out another major bank (Bankia) while under threat from the European financial sector, who promised total market chaos across Europe if their demands were not met. Spanish Occupiers - the 15-M or indignad@s movement, who largely inspired #OWS - are fighting back by expanding their banking protests. The banking bailout is tied to the wider program of austerity being enforced in Spain and across Europe, as well as here in North America. Manifesto We have a government that is directly involved in bank fraud and an economic elite that does not hesitate to rob us.
This Saturday [today], we will plant a new seed at Bankia. Obama Counter-Fundraiser for Investigation Task Force. TODAY Monday, June 4 2012 Assemble in Bryant Park (42nd St and 6th Ave, NYC) at 6pm. Move to New Amsterdam Theater at 7pm. On June 4th, members of F The Banks will be escalating our campaign to highlight the failure of the government to investigate the financial crisis. Recently, we took our campaign to Attorney General Schneiderman’s office, to try and take charge of his underfunded, understaffed, and underachieving “Task Force”. Now, we’re going straight to his boss, Obama.
And we’re going to hit him where it hurts: his campaign funds. It’s predicted that the Obama campaign and related PACs will spend over a billion dollars trying to get him re-elected. Instead, Congress is refusing to fund it, and the task force is floundering. While Obama is fundraising for his campaign, we’ll be holding a fundraiser for what really matters: bringing the banks to justice. Tuesday: Stop Spectra, Resist Fracking In NYC. Stop Spectra: New Yorkers Resist Hydro-fracking and a Dangerous and Unnecessary Gas Pipeline What: Corporate profiteers are trying to force a hazardous and unnecessary pipeline on the residents of New York City in order to make us dependent on hydro-fracked natural gas, a fossil fuel with an ecological impact equal to or worse than oil and coal.
The project will have detrimental consequences for our city, our economy, our air, our water, and the earth. WE ARE GOING TO STOP IT.Where: Assemble at United Nations (East 42nd and 1st Ave)When: Tuesday, June 5th, 12-4pmMore info: Schedule: Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the Spectra natural gas pipeline. RISK OF EXPLOSION: The blast zone for the Spectra pipeline encompasses MUCH OF THE WEST VILLAGE and NEARLY ALL OF JERSEY CITY. In September 2010, a faulty weld caused a pipeline with similar pressure to explode in suburban San Bruno, CA.