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'Occupy Wall Street' protesters rally against police

'Occupy Wall Street' protesters rally against police

More than 1,000 supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose members have camped out for two weeks to protest against bank bailouts and income inequality, marched on police headquarters Friday over the police response to an earlier rally.

By News Wires (text)
 

REUTERS - Protesters who have camped out near Wall Street for two weeks marched on Friday on police headquarters in Manhattan over what they viewed as a heavy-handed police response to a previous demonstration.

The Occupy Wall Street movement, whose members have vowed to stay through the winter, are protesting issues including the 2008 bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment.

More than 1,000 people marched past City Hall and arrived at a plaza outside police headquarters in the late afternoon. Some held banners criticizing police, while others chanted: "We are the 99 percent" and "The banks got bailed out, we got sold out."

Workers from the financial district on their way home watched as the marchers passed, with some saying it was not obvious what outcome organizers of the Occupy Wall Street movement wanted.

Police observed the march and kept protesters on the sidewalk, but no clashes were reported. Police said no arrests were made before the protest dispersed peaceably by 8 p.m. after the march.

"No to the NYPD crackdown on Wall St. protesters," organizers had said on their website, promoting the march. Other online flyers for the march read: "No to Stop-and-Frisk in Black & Latino neighborhoods" and "No to Spying and Harassment of Muslim Communities."

The protest came less than a week after police arrested 80 people during a march to the bustling Union Square shopping district, the most arrests by New York police at a demonstration since hundreds were detained outside the Republican National Convention in 2004.

A police commander used pepper spray on four women at last weekend's march and a video of the incident went viral on the Internet, angering many protesters who vowed to continue their protests indefinitely.

The protest encampment in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan is festooned with placards and anti-Wall Street slogans. There is a makeshift kitchen and library, and celebrities from filmmaker Michael Moore to actress Susan Sarandon have stopped by to show solidarity.

Asked on his weekly radio show on Friday whether the protesters could stay indefinitely at the private park they call their base, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "We'll see."

Bloomberg added: "People have a right to protest. But we also have to make sure that people who don't want to protest can go down the street unmolested."

Similar but smaller protests have also sprouted in other cities in recent days, including Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.
 

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Make no mistake, these

Make no mistake, these protestors are anarchists just waiting in the wings. Leftists are THE most dishonest people you will ever meet. The majority of these people are spoiled rich kids students who've had their way paid for their entire lives and still that's not enough.

shy media

mainstream media shying away from this story...there are tens of thousands protesting on the streets in N.Y.

Wall Street

There should be 700,000 ppl on the streets of NY and on every bridge and in every city across the nation (make that 200,000,000+ppl). I think at least that many Americans are sick of the situation the US is in. No one to blame but the Reps. & Dems. Time for a "Major" clean up.

New kind of peace promoting US politics and ideas.

To: infoseeker

I try to observe things from far away, as if viewing the earth from space and therefore, unable to see details.
I believe in God without any of the religions and my understanding is: you also trust in God and I believe it is a nice matter for you too.

All the creations and their particular rule based activities are nothing but play of God-who is free from any kind of blames. So, I try to take things as easy as possible (through a somewhat uncommon processing of my own mind, I think, which is in my control in a trying to be well balanced personal style.

I have a fact:
I got severe physical injury because of or as a result of Canadian Crown's approval of a false case against me-involving a beautiful younger lady and it was initially arranged by some extremely negative envious minds at a work place.
Subsequently a big mistake has been done by our great judicial system because the Crown was mislead in the first place by some (Newfoundlanders?).

I took that easy and the result is: Myself and the personnel of the Crown Corporation are treating each other respectfully for the last 3 years and mutually trying to find hidden true facts avoiding nasty fights of 'Blame game'-which produces nothing good at the end of the day..

Not balanced with sane-Positivity, the extreme Negativity in the form of criminal instincts in human mind is the most dangerous thing on earth.

My understanding of Obama is: he is a more balanced man than many other leaders and capable of doing more than what we have seen so far.I think my /our religionless God is blessing him.
He is closing a burden of businesses started by GOP leaders a decade ago and only for winning support of 'bloody action seeking, negatively powerful minded portion of the US public', he has no choice but to order killings of 'hard to catch terrorists', instead of slow approach and bring them under ICC and let the common world public hear "their side of the facts" and learn how secret conspiracy, 'blind beliefs' etc. may cause hatred, wars etc.

Here is an excerpt (mainly of philosophical views) from my case filing: ..............................By watching closely how a few human minds, in the shield of illusory old judicial structure can play ‘the clever games of manipulations’ through the loopholes of the current system, I have recently learned a lot more things. So, I have to write in details to let my fellow Canadians and the Global Public know about my highly beneficial findings which are identical when comparing with even those in the broader perspective on the International scene, because of identical reasons of cultural differences and simple misunderstandings. The mentalities and characters of IAHs are actually reflective from behind all forms of governances which, if dishonest, can never continually succeed to evade attention and escape from eyes of the public visions.
Please look closely at the following currently ongoing examples: The governance-power of Libya: Mr. Gadhafi has been a manipulator of public-power mainly for his personal and own family enjoyment, ambitions, interests etc. for last four decades despite difficulties among which some are created by the greedy mentalities of a few rich individuals of the West and East and some are recently created by the common, ever-ungrateful, impatient, young generation of Libyan public {And supported by collective envy of invisible but ‘extremely money greedy’ very few individuals or oil-field owners of the West (the actual heads of the most powerful western governments) which believe oil: ‘the liquid gold’- price should be controlled, for some belief generated reasons in their minds, and kept high for personal gains as well as political controls over the current trends of quick developments in the East, even if, at the expense of higher food and commodity prices leading to the possibilities of hunger and death of partial mankind, especially, in the third world}. Unfortunately, today many typical sincerely-angry Americans and pro-American-Canadians (future-possible: AmeriCandians) are unhappy on the President of USA: Mr. Obama for his ‘not yet aggressive’ attitudes towards Mr. Gadhafi and for not leading and engaging in aerial bombardments on the terrorizing (once terrorist) government of Libya. They are impatient to watch destruction of a ruler that is against of its own protesting Libyan public and at the same time being totally safe at homeland (although, Cosmically, e.g.: disasters like volcanism, epidemic, earthquake etc. may happen any moment at any of the places on earth including the safest ones.), they are mentally prepared to somewhat sadistically enjoy some movie-like brutalities (possibly with a nice name) of allied bombardments shown in the TV accompanied by commentaries with the heroic sensations of bloodshed and barbarian-patriotic style: victory. They are motivated by, for no personal gains but for fun filled curiosity, although inhuman, like e.g.: boxing game or normal reactive-negativities of their minds out of superficial or shallow understanding of eternal complex matters which are nothing but products of ‘mob-like collective cheap-blind-beliefs of some torn between dogmatism and ever-confusing secularism’.
“Survival of the fittest” is the Cosmic and/or universal law for the earthly animals including super animal: the human race and at the same time this law appears to be meaningful when one tries to understand the Cosmic rules of the ‘Omni-powerful: the ultimate-controller’ too, although without any apparent proof and also without guidance of any of the religions. History has time after time proven that the “Cosmic unbiased rule of 50%” or Cosmic power supersedes mundane intrigues or powers like human ruling, governance etc.. With wisdom of long term patience, Mr. Gadhafi’s power: believed to be ‘Libya’s oil-power under his governance’ will be lost eventually in the normal course of unseen automatic application of cosmic laws. But the quick result or the apparently faster victory by secret and dishonest human-push can be very temporarily achieved too, as have been historically seen but primarily, at the expense of unnecessary bloodsheds. Now, if Mr. Obama and the UN, headed by USA and secretly backed by the impatient Semitic or anti-Semitic violent mentalities, start to use human-bloodshed-causing gun powers in order to take advantage of the current-automatically created or allowed political awareness of the young generations of African and of public of the Eastern pieces of lands through application of ‘foreign policies of old fashioned secret and unfair manipulations’ then the consequences surely will be worse than the past wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq etc.. And in the final count down, much more than ever, innocent lives of native and foreign souls including lives of mercenaries of many kinds will be lost, and that will produce ‘never ending, over the time’ supressed anger in the mental belief-system of the collective Easterners or the East: confusingly portray-able as “Muslims” by the words only-which is physically non-existent just like what is meant by “white”-that exists only inside human mental negativities. A little change in the minds shall change the world.{this kind of futurologist(ic) deep-understanding needs wisdom of selfless patience.}
However, if the automatic or Cosmic natural progresses, so far, of establishing ‘one power of Governance for the whole world’ should somehow become uncertain, then, this opportunity shall not come again soon until the collective negative experiences of this generation will be forgotten or wiped out completely from the direct memories of the contemporary collective Eastern public brains (e.g.: Hitler’s brutality) and owning the quality of forgiveness for own happiness is not an easy thing unless learned and earned. We (you and I including the Western financial and industrial corporations; e.g.: Microsoft etc.) need to be very cautious and extremely careful about our culturally approved extreme ‘greed of money’, habits of extracting income or spending and therefore, must keep in our minds that too strong grips on consumers or the destructions of the hopes or possibility of a positive future for ‘win-win situations’ at the same time give births of new hopes and possibilities; as the Chinese, the Indians, the Asians in general, are, traditionally and habitually, very frugal minded and experts in copying other’s businesses and thus are capable of creating a completely separate Internet networks, industrial and financing systems etc. totally independent from the West. Secondarily, faster victory (a desire or a product of mainly human greed) must cause further delays to the cosmic transformation which is secularly occurring beyond human control and has slowly but obviously began to change the political arenas of the Arabian, other Middle Eastern, North African and so many different countries in all corners of the world. We need to allow the time and let evolution happen slowly instead of a quick revolution. Please do not forget that vast change can also be a secularly occurring Cosmic thing and human push may not be required at all. The West, with good conscience, cannot attack Libya.
Today, if “International Communities or especially the North American part of the Global public fail to hear or learn from what is now available for them to prudently consider and become aware of the benefits of the better wisdom” and Mr. Obama like a puppet head finally become submissive to the collective pressures of the mental negativities of the congressmen, then what shall happen? A quick victory may still be achieved but not without risk of some inevitable long term bad consequences. Very possibly “the positive mentalities of the US Congressmen. And also North Americans or AmeriCandans}” will be outnumbered by the very common ‘the negative ones’-which is majority because of ignorance problem of the West. ............

Shahislam

Some of my friends are there

Some of my friends are there right now and from what im hearing arrests are happening some photos were just uploaded of people in hand restraints

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