Revolution 99 Update: Fear grips 1%ers and Media as OWS stirs after winter freeze
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television and the web. The kabuki theater will not end until after the elections in november.For months now the horse race your shown is not reality. It’s created by the Corporate Media.
The Corporate Media is gorging on the harvest from Citizens United. DO NOT EXPECT to be told, shown or informed accurately any OCCUPY EVENTS. The space is reserved for the Paid Political Programs and Print. Does anyone believe the saturation of politics in the daily news, really is warranted? It’s the money that determines the story.
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RT news – The anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street is showing signs of life after a lull in activity over the winter. But a low turn-out and the absence of clearly-defined leadership are raising doubts over the group’s survival.
Around 10 activists were arrested when between 100 and 200 members of the anti-establishment movement descended onto the streets of New York to protest against corporate greed. Starting outside New York’s public library, they marched towards the world headquarters of pharmaceuticals giant, Pfizer.
One man was arrested during the protests while nine people were reportedly arrested overnight for disorderly conduct in the vicinity of the movement’s birthplace in Zuccotti Park.
Demonstrators denounced Pfizer, accusing it of instigating tax breaks and benefits that allow large companies to expand. They bestowed the tongue-in-cheek prize of “Excellence in Profiteering” on the pharma giant amid chants of “Shame on Pfizer! You’re a bunch of liars!” and “People over profit!”
New York protestor Yoni Miller told news agency AFP that the revival of the movement was “inevitable” in the run-up to the US election in October.
Activist Leah Fedder said she did not believe “you can kill a movement that is so desperately needed. It is a dying system. It has to change.”
The day of action was being presented as a revival of the OWS movement which has been in abeyance since police dislodged encampments in New York and other US cities last November. Thousands of camps were broken up amid scores of arrests and an outcry over police brutality. However, Wednesday’s lukewarm demonstration did not hold a candle to the movement’s previous gatherings. More…
‘Priest of O.W.S.’ says to expect shock and awe
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Speaking to the Village Independent Democrats recently, Minister Michael Ellick of Judson Memorial Church was happy to inform them that Occupy Wall Street is alive and well, though admittedly with a lower profile these last few months.
In fact, he assured them, the 99 percent movement will soon return in a big way with demonstrations and events that will, once again, make the whole world stand up and take notice.
“There are plans in place that I am not at liberty to share,” he told the political club members at their meeting two weeks ago. “This spring I really think there is going to be shock and awe. There’s going to be so many of us, and no one’s going to be able to look away.
“May 1 will be a big day,” he said. “It’s always a big day — but they’re really going to be going for shock and awe.”
There’s no shortage of O.W.S. supporters out there, he said. But he acknowledged that police evicting the encampment from Zuccotti Park in November was a real blow to the movement as a vibrant forum for ideas and change.
“There was a desperate need — there still is: That forum has got to have physical space,” he said. “It’s tactic. It’s metaphor.
“We now have a very lazy media,” he explained. “Zuccotti was a very easy place for the media to come down and ‘do the story.’ Post-having the space, post-Zuccotti Park, the movement really suffers.”
Although the Occupiers have been dispersed, they’re still committed, he said.
“A lot of people who were in the park are around the world — sort of spreading the word,” he said.
Since last fall, Ellick, 37, has been the leader of Occupy Faith NYC, a coalition of progressive New York City churches supporting O.W.S. Originally from Seattle, he has had a couple of past lives. He was formerly a public finance analyst for infrastructure projects, such as bridges and the like. For about six years he was a Buddhist monk. His understanding of economics and his spirituality seem to have meshed perfectly in his current calling as the “Priest of O.W.S.”
Early on, with the Zuccotti encampment constantly at risk of eviction, he and others realized a fallback was needed.
“A lot of pastors started thinking this has to be organized out of churches,” he noted, a belief that only grew stronger after the protesters’ ouster from the Lower Manhattan park.
He told V.I.D. that he and a few others initially broached the idea of Occupy trying to get Trinity Real Estate’s Duarte Square space, at Canal St. and Sixth Ave., for the movement’s second home — dubbed “Occupy 2.0.” Trinity Real Estate is the real estate arm of Trinity Church. Trinity is one of Downtown Manhattan’s biggest property owners.
“We suggested that space to the movement,” he said. “We actually thought we had this brilliant idea, that they’ll actually give it.”
Ellick said they had waivers all written up for Trinity to indemnify it in case anything happened in the fenced-in triangle during the hoped-for encampment.
“And then Trinity didn’t budge,” he said.
Yet, Ellick said, he wasn’t totally sold on the idea of physically taking the space and thought it was best to ask for Trinity’s permission. Yet he didn’t think it was right to back down, either.
“The question was: Was it smart to go after a church?” he noted. “There was a lot of split about whether it was smart to go after Trinity.”
He admitted he wavered back and forth on the issue, though ultimately supported the Occupiers when they resolved to “take the space.” The occupation on Sat., Dec. 17, was short-lived; after being led over the chain-link fence by a retired Episcopal bishop and a group of hunger strikers, the protesters were quickly arrested by police. There hasn’t been another effort to take the Duarte Square lot since. More…
Occupy Wall Street and NYPD clash at rally in Bryant Park
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At least three Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Wednesday in a midtown showdown with police at the movement’s first major showing of 2012. Hundreds of marchers rallied near Bryant Park in a protest against corporate influence in politics, …
