“ON NE PEUT PAS EVINCER UNE IDÉE DONT L’HEURE EST VENUE” Occupy London takes over empty offices owned by UBS bank - video | UK news. Common Threads: We Are Not Alone. We’re at a curious moment in this remarkable movement. Has there ever been one so widespread that has not yet made demands? Yet at the same time, Occupy Wall Street has accomplished something that takes other movements years. It has crystallized a sense of outrage — and made clear that this outrage is shared by tens of millions. Tahrir Square, Egypt I think about other moments in my lifetime when it suddenly became thrillingly clear that millions of people felt the same way. Another exhilarating moment came in East Germany in the fall of 1989. Don’t imagine, though, that real change will happen so quickly here. Roll the clock back about 220 years. Yet this was an era when the French and American Revolutions put new ideas about human equality into the air.
Sugar planters and their lobbyists were as taken by surprise as Wall Street was when people began pouring into Liberty Square in September. United States of Occupation. From our friends at Occuprint.org Liberty Square is where it all began. But far from Wall Street, in parks and plazas and public spaces across the nation, people outraged at financial crimes and political skulduggery have slept and eaten and talked and cared for one another — a new American civic space has been created. In every corner of the country, the occupation has arrived.
In response to Mayor Michael Hancock’s demand for a spokesperson, Occupy Denver elected the movement’s first leader. Her name is Shelby, and she is a 3-year-old border collie dog. Camping out with strangers is never easy, even under the best conditions. While Occupy Wall Street sits in the belly of the financial beast, Occupy Detroit symbolizes the devastation wrought by those financial and corporate elites: “Wall Street is the source of the problem,” occupiers there say, “and Detroit is the result.” Around the world people poured into the streets in solidarity with Occupy Oakland. A Love Supreme. We the people of the global Occupy movement embody and enact a deep democratic awakening with genuine joy and fierce determination. Our movement — leaderless and leaderful — is a soulful expression of a moral outrage at the ugly corporate greed that pushes our society and world to the brink of catastrophe. We are aware that our actions have inaugurated a radical enlightenment in a moment of undeniable distrust and disgust with oligarchic economies, corrupt politicians, arbitrary rule of law and corporate media weapons of mass distraction.
And we intend to sustain our momentum by nurturing our bonds of trust, fortifying our bodies, hearts and minds and sticking together through hell or high water in order to create a better world through a deep democratic revolution. We refuse to be mere echoes of the vicious lies that support an illegitimate status quo. Revolution may scare some people because of its connotation of violence. We are prisoners of a blood-stained, tear-soaked hope. Another American Way. When I went looking for Occupy Johnson City, Tennessee, the spiky profile of pickets and placards struck my eye first, and then the people underneath them, but it did not look like a global uprising per se, just an orderly crowd in a parking lot.
But a crowd, there’s a sight, in a town where people mostly drive-thru or drive on. I saw some American flags and a sign that said “God Hates Banks” and figured this had to be it. From across the street I heard one person say a few words at a time, repeated by the crowd in the unmistakable “from this day forward…” cadence of a wedding or a swearing-in, and again I wasn’t sure I was in the right place. As it turned out, the call and response was the people’s microphone, famously re-invented in New York to subvert the ban on amplifiers. This is Appalachia, home of the forested Cumberland and Wildwood Flower and NASCAR and 18% unemployment and bless your heart. "Occupy" Actions Across the Country. In DC and other cities, demonstrators rally at bridges - Transcript DAVID DOUGHERTY, TRNN: Thousands of people took to the streets across the United States on Thursday, November 17, to express their solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement on its two-month anniversary.
In Washington, DC, demonstrators marched from the Occupy campsite at McPherson Square through downtown before staging a rally with additional protestors at the Key Bridge. The demonstration was a confluence of organized labor groups, the Occupy movement, and organizations like "Our DC", which focuses on unemployment and job creation in Washington. End of Transcript DISCLAIMER: Please note that transcripts for The Real News Network are typed from a recording of the program. TRNN cannot guarantee their complete accuracy. Comments Our automatic spam filter blocks comments with multiple links and multiple users using the same IP address. SEIU President, Union Leaders Arrested in OWS Brooklyn Bridge Protest Demanding Job Creation. Thursday’s protest marking the Occupy movement’s second month anniversary coincided with an event planned months earlier by unions and others.
Marches were held on bridges across the country to draw attention to how federal funding to fix ailing infrastructure in the country could put unemployed people back to work. Protesters blocked bridges in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Houston, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Hartford and Portland. Democracy Now! Producer Renée Feltz reports that in New York City, labor leaders were arrested trying to block the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge, including SEIU president Mary Kay Henry. This is a rush transcript. JUAN GONZALEZ: Thursday’s protest marking the Occupy movement’s second month anniversary coincided with any event planned months earlier by unions and others. AMY GOODMAN: Protesters blocked bridges in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. PROTESTERS: Whose bridge? PROTESTERS: They say, "Get back!
" New York City Students Join OWS Day of Action with Union Square Rally, March. Among the many Occupy protests throughout New York City yesterday was a rally that attracted more than a thousand students to Union Square, a public park with a long history of political demonstrations. During a march out of the park, hundreds of people thronged into the street and attempted to occupy a New School building. We speak with a New York University student participating in the march and a New School professor who has incorporated the Occupy movement into his curriculum as "a prism through which to view a lot of broader social issues this semester.
" We also talk to The Nation correspondent John Nichols, who says, "I don’t think that a year ago anybody would have predicted that on a cold, rainy day in November 2011 you would have thousands and thousands of young people out on the streets in New York City and in cities across the country. Something has changed.
" [includes rush transcript] This is a rush transcript. JEFF SMITH: My name is Jeff Smith. JEFF SMITH: OK. Occupy Wall Street Draws Massive Turnout in NYC and Across the Nation to Mark 2-Month Milestone. The Occupy Wall Street movement entered its third month Thursday with protests against the economic system in dozens of cities across the country. Reports estimated some 300 people were arrested nationwide, with the majority of the arrests taking place in New York City when protesters attempted to shut down the New York Stock Exchange. "We effectively shut down Wall Street this morning.
We did it with our stories, with our bodies, with our hearts," says one of the organizers of the action. Democracy Now! Reporter Ryan Devereaux filed this report. This is a rush transcript. JUAN GONZALEZ: The Occupy Wall Street movement entered its third month Thursday with protests against the economic system in dozens of cities across the country. PROTESTERS: Whose streets? RYAN DEVEREAUX: Thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters swarmed the streets of Lower Manhattan Thursday morning, kicking off a day of mass demonstrations and the arrest of well over 200 people. PROTESTERS: Shame! | Headlines for November 18, 2011. The cop group coordinating the Occupy crackdowns.
A national group with ties to Homeland Security helped paln the Occupy Oakland busts As cities across America evict encampments of the Occupy Wall Street movement, similarities of timing, talking points and tactics among major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs have led critics to wonder: Is some sort of national coordination going on? The White House says there’s no federal oversight. Speaking November 15 aboard Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said “The president’s position is that obviously every municipality has to make its own decisions about how to handle these issues.” But a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments.
The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Speaking to Democracy Now! Timoney arrived in Miami with plenty of baggage. Dramatic Portland Pepper Spray Photo Was a Total Accident - National. It's another one of those images that galvanizes activists, embarrasses police, and makes competing photographers seethe with jealousy, and Portland Oregonian shooter Randy L. Rasmussen didn't even know he had taken it. The photo of a young woman protester getting hit in her open mouth, point-blank, with a torrent of pepper spray as riot cops pushed back protesters in Portland during Thursday's Day of Action has exploded on Twitter, blogs, and trade sites since The Oregonian posted it Thursday evening.
But in the confusion and impending darkness on Thursday evening, Rasmussen was shooting blind. He said he didn't see the photo until his editor did, as they went through the day's frames together that night. Update (5 p.m. EST): The woman in the photo is 20-year-old Elizabeth Nichols, her mother wrote in to say. "I was just shooting everything that came to my attention because it was happening in like a 270 degree panorama below me. So what about the young woman? Update (5 p.m. Anti-Wall Street: Poutine appelle à respecter les droits de l'homme.
Le premier ministre russe Vladimir Poutine a espéré vendredi que la police ne ferait pas un usage disproportionné de la force lors de la dispersion des manifestations du mouvement Occupy Wall Street aux Etats-Unis. "A New York, la police disperse les manifestants du mouvement Occupy Wall Street. Nous espérons qu'il n'y aura pas d'usage disproportionné de la force", a déclaré M.Poutine devant les journalistes à l'issue de la 16e réunion de la Commission russo-française pour les questions de coopération bilatérale.
Et d'ajouter que les droits de l'homme devaient être respectés partout et en toute circonstance, que ce soit en Syrie, en France et en Europe en général, ainsi qu'en Russie. "Cette position nous rapproche avec la France et l'ensemble de nos partenaires européens", a indiqué le chef du gouvernement, en reconnaissant toutefois que les problèmes liés au respect des droits de l'homme surgissaient aussi en Russie. Appel d'une indignée à les rejoindre le 19 novembre 2011. <i>Occupy Wall Street</i> - Une téléréalité sur le Net. À l’ère des téléphones intelligents, de Twitter, Ustream et YouTube, le mouvement Occupy Wall Street est devenu une véritable émission de télé-réalité. Et cette semaine, la violence était au rendez-vous.
Tim Pool n’a pas dormi depuis des heures. Âgé de 25 ans, ce jeune de Chicago diffuse, sans arrêt, depuis l’évacuation du Parc Zuccotti, mardi dernier, des images qui donnent parfois des frissons dans le dos. Armé de la caméra de son téléphone Samsung Galaxy S II, il anime sur ustream.tv/TheOther99 ce que le magazine VICE appelle « The Best TV Show Ever ». Des journalistes malmenés Dans un billet publié sur le blogue Media Decoder du New York Times, on affirme que plusieurs journalistes se sont vus refuser l’accès au parc Zuccotti, lors de l’évacuation des indignés, mardi dernier. Indignés, marque déposée. Occupy Wall Street, le mouvement Indigné (anti-pub) américain a déposé sa... marque auprès de l'Agence gouvernementale des marques et brevets!
Il n'est pas à une contradiction près. En apparence seulement... Les anti-Wall Street, anti-pub à l'origine sont amenés, face au risque de détournement, à faire entrer la dénomination de leur mouvement informel OWS dans le champ du droit commercial de la protection des marques. En 2011, le monde perd la boussole suite à l'éclatement de la bulle immobilière US. La crise financière majeure qui s'ensuit induit un mal de vivre partagé.
Le jeune tunisien Bouazizi en s'immolant met le feu aux poudres d'une planète désormais supraconnectée. Le diplomate résistant Stéphane Hessel comme témoin du siècle ( il est né en 1917!) En Espagne commencent les occupations de places publiques dont la Puerta des Sol.OWS s'enclenche en septembre square Zuccotti, à New-York dans le Saint des Saints de la finance mondiale, Wall Street devenu coeur de cible. USA: près de 450 manifestants interpellés jeudi. Les forces de l'ordre américaines ont procédé jeudi à l'interpellation de quelque 450 "indignés", lors de la journée d'action marquant les deux mois du mouvement de protestation pacifique "Occupy Wall Street", rapporte vendredi le site Web de la chaîne CNN. D'après les organisateurs, quelque 30.000 personnes ont pris part jeudi aux manifestations à travers les Etats-Unis.
L'agence Associated Press rapporte qu'au moins 300 activistes ont été arrêtés dans la ville de New York pour avoir refusé d'obéir ou pour avoir résisté à la police. Selon le chef de la police newyorkaise Raymond Kelly, en deux jours, 7 agents ont été blessés et transportés à l'hôpital. En outre, 50 personnes ont été arrêtées à Los Angeles, 48 à Portland (Oregon), 12 à Huston (Texas) et 18 à Dallas (Texas). Des manifestations ont également eu lieu à Las Vegas, à Chicago et à Washington. 99 % – Quand « Occupy Wall Street » joue à Batman. Nous ne sommes pas à Gotham City mais bien à New York le 17 novembre 2011. Alors qu'une pluie d'arrestations est venue ponctuer une nouvelle marche des "indignés" d'Occupy Wall Street célébrant les deux mois du mouvement, voilà que les manifestants s'inspirent des méthodes de communication du héros de comics Batman.
Certains d'entre eux ont en effet réussi à projeter à l'entrée du pont de Brooklyn, sur la façade d'un gratte-ciel hébergeant le siège de l'entreprise de télécommunication Verizon, de nombreux slogans du mouvement. Voilà le message diffusé. "99 % / MIC CHECK! Le site Boingboing a retrouvé l'un des auteurs du "bat-signal". Cette entrée a été publiée dans Amériques. Occupy London squatte la banque UBS. Le tour du monde des indignés - une vidéo Actu et Politique. Tous les sons d'actu. OWS: Police join the 99% protests -- Captain Raymond Lewis supporting OWS. Great video!... The Occupied Wall Street Journal.