- Andy Haynes
- They chanted: “Whose bridge? Our bridge!”
Via text:
Looks like shit is about to go down. A march is starting. They’re telling us what to do when we get arrested. Lots of cops. (3:15 p.m.)
Charlie Rangel was booed / almost beaten off the stage. Then they gave him the “hey hey na na nas.” They yelled: “He’s one of the one percent!” Then a red headed man tried to rush him. (3:51 p.m.)
Currently heading to what looks like the Brooklyn Bridge, but maybe City Hall? (3:52 p.m.)
I don’t know why, but now we’re headed to Brooklyn, over the bridge. (3:58 p.m.)
- Andy Haynes
- Protesters were arrested one by one.
Now they’re on the car part of the bridge. (4:05 p.m.)
Marchers chanting, “Whose bridge? Our bridge!” Looks like about 5,000 to 10,000 people. (4:13 p.m.)
The cops have stopped marchers on roadway. Looks like it’s getting violent, at least on the cop side. They’re dragging protesters from the larger group one by one. (4:23 p.m.)
It’s only some of the marchers who are on the roadway, maybe several hundred. They’ve been cut off and trapped by the cops and are being arrested one at a time and put in vans. (4:41 p.m.)
- Andy Haynes
At the far end of the Brooklyn Bridge now. (On the Brooklyn side.) Watching city buses go back across it to pick up protesters. (5:14 p.m.)
Now THIS is called a damn rally Seattle!! This shit takes BALLS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6irfBMm4…
We occupied Wall Street and bought the Brooklyn Bridge?
Dumping on Rangel is extremely wrong-headed. Is this mass action on the fast track to mass stupidity?
Happening now
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevoluti…
Whose bridge?!!!!! Our Bridge?!!!!!
Brilliant!
Now is the time for all good men to . . . Occupy Shit!!!!
And this is helpful for the country how?
Phoebe is right! No one should ever assemble unless there is a possibility for corporate profit. NFL games, for instance, or 911 commemorative ceremonies.
This is just terribly self-destructive.
I’m glad they’re going to Brooklyn – a moving demonstration is always good. And Wall Street is mostly Cinnabon and Starbucks; in Brooklyn they’ll have a much wider range of artisanal and locally sourced simple foods to choose from.
I was just shopping at the Market and a nice clamorous group marched by banging pots and such, chanting about bank bailouts. After paying in the shop I walked after them to see if they were going to gather at Steinbrueck Park or something, but then I saw Jerry Seinfeld going the other direction and decided to follow him instead. So much for my chance to foment.
Actually, I don’t mind booing Rangel and all the other Dems who pander to the interests of the working class only enough to get elected and then dump on them afterward.
@7 Well, if it’s not astroturfed, doesn’t have a leader to gather ’round, isn’t about some part of the voting process within the system, so-called Sensible, Pragmatic people just can’t understand it. It’s just a little too much outside of their paradigm to comprehend. What does the word congress mean anyway? Is freedom just voting? I really think they believe that. So then in a very sensible pragmatic way they go on to ridicule those dirty hippies who actually start to get out in the streets and hopefully someday shut things down.
It’s WHOSE. Not “who’s bridge.” It really riles me that so many educated, talented people in the news business are out of work while barely literate people keep writing ungrammatical stuff like this.
@10, 9, 7 – I was a civil disobedient dirty little hippie myself, ages and ages ago. It felt great at the time, tying up traffic and making cops mad. Funny that you should mention pragmatism though, as it (combined with sensible activism) is ultimately fulfilling and those events – well, they were ultimately embarrassing and best forgotten.
I’ve heard it said before that you can get away with pretty much anything in NYC – except blocking traffic.
This will all end in tears.
@12 That’s because your generation failed and that’s OK. There’s other events that worked before the 60s or whatever. Amidst tons of suffering people came together to repel banks from foreclosing on their neighbors. Veterans marched on Washington. Union people faced guns for crying out loud!
I am fine with pragmatism myself, but there’s a false sense of pragmatism amongst those on the left that think our political parties are worth a damn and think stomping pavement for OFA is time better spent.
@12 Also, I am not talking about tying up traffic or making cops mad.
Nobody wants to see Charlie Rangel beaten off. Except maybe Charlie Rangel. And perhaps Mrs. Rangel.
@11: Fixed.
Phoebe, these protests are spreading across the country, despite an almost total media blackout. They are spreading because your pragmatism has failed us. They are spreading because, three years ago, Americans danced in the streets, thinking they had elected the next FDR, when in reality they had elected the next Richard Milhous Nixon. They are spreading because they have listened to people like you for decades, played your game, and every year the situation worsens. At least you tried in the ’60’s. You should rediscover some of your youthful idealism, because everything you have done since hten has truly been an abject failure. Pragmatism is the problem, not the solution. The only power working people have is the power they assume in the streets.
@ 2
Comparing ‘occupy wallstreet’ to the soul crushing human tragedy of Kent state is…reprehensible at best. Please shit on your fist, and then punch yourself.
Also @ 18 you are a fucking idiot and so is your little Anarchist club.
If this movement was more unified and focused in its message, I would be joining the protesters in the streets of New York. Honestly, I’m happy to see this happening, but I don’t see the point in risking getting maced, tazed, beaten, and/or arrested when the goals are still so nebulous. A friend of my girlfriend has already been arrested for protesting, but beyond ending the “Totalitarian Capitalism” Sargon mentions @9, I have no idea what she was hoping to accomplish, or how what she was doing accomplished that.
as a conservative I will simply say this why should I care if young liberals and progressives riot in a american city, most likly the city is under the control of the democrat’s party so fuck them and let them deal with it.
@22, Who’s rioting?
@23 for the past few months it sounds like that is what you all wanted, but those riots arn’t going to take place in the rural “heartland” of the US (home of the TeaParty) it will be in the democratic controlled cities, I would personally love to see McGinn, Adams, or Bloomburg have to deal with a real riot because as a conservative its just my enemies fighting my enemies
@21 Unification and focus develop over time and with experience. A movement like this springs up somewhat spontaneously, from the overwhelming frustration and anger people feel about the disparity of incomes in this country. Also, these things are very fluid. If you’re waiting until it’s a nice, neat, obvious protest before you join, then that will be never.
I love how the Baby Boomers–you know the ones who did this shit but then became the most “live beyond your means thanks to credit cards and the stock market and real estate” generation in the 80s and 90s are the ones cluntching their pearls for dear life right now.
It’s okay Boomers, all your shenanigans gave the “real Americans” an excuse for your parents and rural cousins to vote for Richard Nixon……not a total right wing looney but a shifty opportunist who could throw them a bone.
And, ironically, I think most of you will be voting for Romney….not a total right wing looney but a shifty opportunist who could throw them a bone.
Troll @ 22: Dear, you post betrays you. You are not a real conservative. You chose that title for yourself, much like one chooses a sports team to root for. It’s familiar, and its marketing agrees with your self-image.
On a deeper level, You chose it because you are scared by all the cultural and technological changes our society has gone through. That’s OK. Sometimes I wish it were 1975, and I would soon be waking up in my red, white, and blue bedroom back in Iowa. But alas – and also rejoice – that is not to be.
You speak with contempt of the cities. But the cities are the future. Your idyllic small-town and/or rural lifestyle is as dead as yesterday’s rainbow – thanks in no small part to the voters who identified as conservatives, and let corporations ruin their lifestyle and livelihood.
The future is the cities. Do you want to live in the past, or live in the future?
@20 – Are you capable of presenting a polemic as to why I’m an idiot, or are you only capable of being a petualant, spoiled little child?
@ 27 Catalina, Please dont call me dear, thank you. I agree and its the same for you and your “liberalness or progresiveness” but i hate to break to you i live in the city (south seattle acutally) i enjoy the city i really do. i just despise the entrenched political leaderships and they are corrupt in their own way and many people here seem to give a blind eye to it. So again why should I care if Bloomburg, or Adams, or McGinn lives are maid misserable
Catalina, how come I have to call out Republican style cronyism yet liberals don’t seem to be interested in calling out theirs. See Solyndra too many people in the lib/prog circles are making excuses for the theft of tax payer money, or another solar company that has close ties to Obama fundraisers or Nancy Pelosi’s family.
@31 I will after I get home from dinner. 2-3 hours. no smart phone sorry
Hey, Short-Attention-Span-Theater:
THIS is why you should care. (And please — learn how to scroll down the SLOG page too, while you’re at it — okay?)
And THIS is some of the thinking behind why an amorphous, unfocused protest can still have cause-and-effect on the culture.
Edjamicating yerself — it’s what’s for breakfast!
They’re right to protest, but they need to do it better IMO. Have objectives.
Troll dear, I call everyone dear (or dearest, or darling) and I usually mean it. You’ll just have to learn to accept it, or ask the people at The Stranger to ban me.
Again, your vague little cliches and attempts at what I suppose you would call “street creds” by saying that you live in South Seattle are further evidence of your online cry for help.
As for the whole non-story of Solyndra, it begins and mostly happens, under the Bush Administration. May I, dear, direct you to this story from that notoriously l ABC news?
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/solyndra-b…
Heading back to Williamsburg to make sure their parents paid October’s rent? Or did they all collectively need to go back to recharge their iPhones?
“General Assembly is a horizontal, autonomous, leaderless, modified-consensus-based system with roots in anarchist thought…Working toward consensus is really hard, frustrating and slow.”
So it’ll take them 6 months just to decide pizza toppings and by that point their parents may well stop paying for their rent in Williamsburg.
Hey, troll GSD, why is it that your type have such a violent aversion to proper grammer and spelling? It is particularly galling as I am sure you have engaged in several spittle-flecked diatribes about passing “English only” legislation, yet you are incapable of crafting even one error free sentence in your native, and only tongue. Typical reactionary. PS, Seatac is not South Seattle, dear.
I totally respect the people marching, and support their right to do so. But at this point, it just seems like a bunch of people that are mad about the economy and the widening gap between rich and poor, with no real goal or idea about what to do about it or what to do with their zeal. It’s fine to be mad about that. I am too. But if you’re gonna yell at me to take action, then someone somewhere needs to get on message about what specific action we should take and what goals you want to achieve. Until then, it just looks like aimless, vaguely progressive-leaning anarchists.
Part of me feels guilty for being so cynical, but I just see left wing tea baggers. Just as confused and incoherent.
Wait, Andy! What did it smell like?
@36 pretty sure beacon hill is in Seattle, but i guess i dont know where Jefferson golf course is or Kimball elementry in relation to my house. oh well but thanks for proving my point on why I dont care if a bunch of angry spoiled liberal children burn the CBD of a democratic strongholds.
Lastly in the end though Bush decided against Solandra and that is where Obama’s DOE failed, funny how you have no comeback against the charges of the connections about good old Nancy Pelosi or Obama though….
It may not be a perfect movement, but Occupy Wall Street is exactly the kind of movement we need right now.
43 dear, You’re right!!! Beacon Hill IS in Seattle!!!
It’s sad that you don’t know where Jefferson Park is, but I guess I’m sort of relieved (for the children) that you don’t know where Kimball is. You’re not missing much. I hope.
As for whatever else it is you’re trying to say, Rush Limbaugh’s phone lines open first thing Monday Morning, and I’m sure they’d love to hear from you. If you can’t wait that long, there’s always Art Bell. Isn’t he on every night?
Art Bell retired its George Noory now, i see you are at the bottom of the barrel now. Democrats are corrupt and you refuse to call them out, but expect conservativies to call out their internal institutional corruption. thats fine and thats why these Occupy XYZ will hurt your side more then you think. Like I said I burn it down for all i care.
oh Ms. Vel DuRay (becuase we all know its a Ms. and not Mrs. as no man would have you for a variety of reasons and not mainly due to your pear shaped bottom heaviness), hopfully someone some day brutally rapes you then mutilates your genitalia. 🙂
anyway goodnight im gonna go fuck my wife (democrat) have fun sleeping alone (and aging and dieing alone) 🙂
Oh 46, I’m pretty sure I love you. In a strictly plutonic way, of course, and as long as you agree to stay away from Kimball Elementary, and all the other schools. And that includes Chez Vel-DuRay.
@40: This, sadly.
The Art Bell slam was uncalled for. He isn’t even on the radio anymore.
plus his gay son was murderd
@18 it isn’t a “news blackout”, you fucking ponce, if there’s nothing to report on in the first place. a hundred useless moneyed little shits stinking up a private plaza in lower manhattan isn’t news
in the first set of photos out of this non-event (responsible news outlets couldn’t give a shit less, but this thing has been endlessly flogged on by worthless shit-blogs such as the stranger) I counted no less than ten thousand dollars’ worth of apple gear alone, ninety-nine percent my ass.