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[woob]

Approximately 30 minutes or so until Judges decision on Zuccotti.

[woob]

Another article on the "Media Blackout"

Zuccotti Park’s OWS cleared out while the media is blacked out

Note tweets below article from journalists last night/this morning.

[OffsideSpecialist]

Occupy protesters in Toronto, Calgary given deadline to leave

TORONTO — Occupy protesters across the country were wondering who would be next after Occupy Toronto protesters were given eviction notices Tuesday and bylaw officers gave protesters in Calgary 24 hours to take down their tents.

Bylaw officers served eviction notices to Occupy Toronto protesters just a day after Mayor Rob Ford repeated warnings that the city would move "soon" against the encampment.

[woob]

Verdict received. No camping/Tents.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by woob

Verdict received. No camping/Tents.

Seems like a fair decision. They have every right to express their views without camping out.

[Vansmack]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Trust fund babies are socially warped. That is all.

I think I turned out ok.

[woob]

Protestors now re-entering park, sans camping gear, obviously.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by woob

Another article on the "Media Blackout"

Zuccotti Park’s OWS cleared out while the media is blacked out

Note tweets below article from journalists last night/this morning.

Wow. That is terrible.
Not allowing camping and requiring people to move out is justifiable, but barring press from recording it and reporting is inexcusable. I'm actually shocked it took place.
Utterly embarrassing and unjustifiable, particularly instructing a press helicopter to leave and blocking press views.

[valo403]

Just curious if any of the law enforcement types here have any experience with the press issue in situations like this. Seems like a tough spot for the cops on the ground, they aren't really in a place to be checking credentials and the press is quite entrenched into the group that's being evicted. Is there a usual way of removing people that allows for press to be left inside? Honestly seems like a very grey area with the way that press has come to mean any goofball kid with a blog by some definitions.

I'm not advocating suppression of the press by any means, just wondering how you deal with it in what is clearly a non traditional setting.

[macker]

Originally Posted by OffsideSpecialist

Occupy protesters in Toronto, Calgary given deadline to leave

Including Meredith Lightfoot
http://www.spinner.ca/2011/11/15/gor...treet-toronto/


Sundown you better take care if I find you been creepin round my back stairs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36sgTr9t2MA

[CaptainCrunch]

Gordon Lightfoot has made a ton of money during his music career, and obviously has made enough money for his daughter to sit down at that camp for a month and not worry about her monetary situation. she got sick and probably got into see doctor based on her family name, she probably has excellent health insurance and got her perscriptions for free.

As much as she denies it, she's not in the 99%

[CaptainCrunch]

I'm wondering if this is her

http://meredithlightfoot.tumblr.com/

Cause if it it, wow, she needs rehab

worst day yet by far, other than my birthday ‘party’ day. i went to a mall filled with chinks and old women (i am so, so sorry god forbid) and they’re all staring at left leg, just like usual, and this little girl stares at it and goes “ooohhhh..” and runs to her mommy and says something in russian or something and the mom goes “fnsd anbjd snjk”

so i go over and say “excuse me why are you looking at my leg and telling your mother about it?” the mother pulls me aside as if i’m some kind of child molester and she’s like “please, she’s only 5 years old, she doesn’t know any better.” and i said “that’s extremely rude though.” and she goes “yes, but i told her it was rude and she knows now.” i go, “she’s just gonna do it when she’s older too, she’s just gonna do it it worse ways” and she gives me this look and gives me more #### and i ignore her deliberately and start talking to my mom. she walked away. then i had an old woman look at it and shake her head and her eyes bulged out her her head as she walked by me, so i borrowed honey’s sharpie and wrote “F#CK OFF” just above my knee. no one stared at it anymore today after that for more than a split second.

i’m so tired of earth.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I'm wondering if this is her

http://meredithlightfoot.tumblr.com/

Cause if it it, wow, she needs rehab

That's terrible. Doesn't she know five-year olds stare at everything? That's what they do. They can't help it at that age.

Hell I didn't stop staring at things until I was in my teens, at which time people love to pick fights with you lol . . .

[Delthefunky]

Did anyone else catch The Daily Show last night?? I was in stitches, the irony was too much, I may have broken my sense of humor.

[THE SCUD]

A great article by Marybeth Hicks.


Call it an occupational hazard, but I can't look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, "Who parented these people?"

As a culture columnist, I've commented on the social and political ramifications of the "movement" - now known as "OWS" - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: "Everything for everybody." Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it's clear there are people with serious designs on "transformational" change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel. Yet it's not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I'm the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters' moms clearly have not passed along.

Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters' mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn't, so I will:

1. Life isn't fair. The concept of justice - that everyone should be treated fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nation was founded. But justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick Jagger said, "You can't always get what you want". No matter how you try to "level the playing field," some people have better luck, skills, talents or connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but squander them, others play the modest hand they're dealt and make up the difference in hard work and perseverance, and some find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it fair? Stupid question.

2. Nothing is "free." Protesting with signs that seek "free" college degrees and "free" health care make you look like idiots, because colleges and hospitals don't operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money machine to tap for your meandering educational careers and "slow paths" to adulthood, and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical.

3. While I'm pointing out this obvious fact, here are a few other things that are not free: overtime for police officers and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property, condoms, Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in your makeshift protest kitchens. Real people with real dollars are underwriting your civic temper tantrum.

4. Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to repay them. No one forces you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that don't require loans, or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you to support yourself and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It's a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for - literally.

5. A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn't evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations: Most of you are doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of social and political change don't dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like attendees of a Renaissance festival. You look foolish, you smell gross, you are clearly high and you don't seem to realize that all around you are people who deem you irrelevant.

There are reasons you haven't found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn't a virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4 percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It's not them. It's you.

[woob]

Big assembly at Foley Square. Estimates around 10K.

UStream
NBC New York

[valo403]

Originally Posted by woob

Big assembly at Foley Square. Estimates around 10K.

UStream
NBC New York

Highest number I've seen reported anywhere is 3k, no way there are 10k.

It also seems this has essentially turned into a union protest.

[CaptainCrunch]

There were more than 200 arrests and several injuries throughout the day. A video was posted online showing a protester being dragged by police, and at least four police officers were injured when some type of liquid, believed to be vinegar, was thrown in their faces at Broadway and Wall Street. Later, an officer was cut, needing 20 stitches, by a protester wielding an object with glass on it, and another officer was hit in the eye with liquids

The city said the situation at the park had become untenable. Residents in Lower Manhattan had complained frequently about protesters making noise and leaving human waste in the street, and city officials had said the park, littered with tents, tarps and other items, had become a fire hazard.

Hmmm it seems like its not just the Calgary Occupyer's that are filthy fracking pigs.

We'll poop on their sidewalks
We'll poop on their streets
We shall never surrender

[valo403]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Hmmm it seems like its not just the Calgary Occupyer's that are filthy fracking pigs.

We'll poop on their sidewalks
We'll poop on their streets
We shall never surrender

Yep, a complete lack of respect for anyone that lives in the area. The entitlement complex is astonishing.

[woob]

Originally Posted by valo403

Yep, a complete lack of respect for anyone that lives in the area. The entitlement complex is astonishing.

Yeah, because all the protesters in OWS behave the same way. You guys must be wading through feces down there! How are you surviving??