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OLBERMANN: Anjali Mullany, reporter of the New York Daily News has tweeted at this hour that police are indeed pepper spraying, and arresting Occupy Wall Street protesters, on Wall Street. Additionally, I can see protesters in kettled area, on Wall and Broadway doing jazz hands in air. Additionally, we had told you earlier from Ryan Devereaux of Democracy Now! -- who was on the program earlier in the week -- that he reports from Broadway and Wall Street, protesters attempted to enter the Wall Street area after the, basically 12-block march from Foley Square back to Zuccotti Park via city hall, that police pushed back, fights ensued, random pepper spraying into the crowd that tried to occupy Wall Street, literally, to get onto Wall Street. Police on horseback came out, more police showed up, arrests were made, and Ryan Devereaux said he personally saw at least 20 people arrested.
Keith Olbermann reads the first collective statement of Occupy Wall Street - Countdown with Keith Olbermann // Current TV
Wall Street To Occupy Wall Street: We're Just As Frustrated As You! (VIDEO) | TPMMuckraker
Wall Street traders have a message for the “Occupy Wall Street” movement: they get it! CNN’s Alison Kosik reported this morning that she’s been talking to traders since the movement started a few weeks ago and they’ve told her they understand their frustrations. “They truly empathize and understand the frustrations. They’re equally frustrated as the folks out there on the park are right now,” Kosik said. “You know, they have also had wit the gridlock in Washington and the state of economy as well,” Kosik said.
Dr. John Carlos shares his perspective on Occupy protests - Countdown with Keith Olbermann // Current TV
Dr. John Carlos , one of the U.S. Olympians who famously raised the awareness of racism in America by raising his fist on the medalists’ podium at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, talks with Keith about his visit to the Occupy protests. Carlos says the Occupy movement “will become a beacon as the 1968 demonstration was 43 years ago.” He says he understands and supports the message the protesters are sending, which reflects what he and his fellow Olympians conveyed in 1968: “Enough is enough; we need something today.”
share share share share Related posts: Matt Taibbi on the evolution of the #OccupyWallStreet protest Via: Current Keith and “Countdown” contributor and Rolling Stone contributing... Michael Moore on Wall Street protests: “It’s going to spread across the country” Some eventually will wake up too late.
[VIDEO]...of cops beating #occupywallstreet peaceful protesters. WARNING - graphic
Wall St. protesters: no backing down despite 700 arrests — RT
Police arrest demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement after they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on the motorway on October 1, 2011 in New York City (Mario Tama / Getty Images / AFP Photo) (40.0Mb) embed video Most of the 700 protesters arrested in the “Occupy Wall Street” march onto the Brooklyn Bridge in New York have been released.Daily Kos: UPDATE 3: #OWS: Take this video VIRAL, NOW!
For those without video access, or who just want a summary of the piece, here you go: It starts with Elizabeth Warren breaking down (in what appears to be an interview by, I would guess, Charlie Rose) the three major things enacted after the Great Depression which kept things running smoothly for 50 years: Then it switches to statements by Sen.
