Occupy Wall Street Wins Court Case: Barricades Down at Zuccotti Park
Less than two days after the NYCLU demanded that Brookfield Properties remove the barricades preventing the public from accessing Zuccotti Park, the property management company has done just that. Tuesday evening, the barricades were removed and stacked off to the sides, permitting visitors to enter the park.
With freedom comes responsibility; according to one occupier, "Brookfield Security said unless we do something stupid the park will remain open!"
But the rules that Brookfield designed to foil the occupation still seem to be in effect, which would mean tents and even simply lying down are forbidden. After evicting the occupiers and putting up the barricades, the NYPD had also prohibited anyone from entering the park with large bags, and stopped the Occupy Wall Street kitchen from distributing food.
It wasn't just the protesters who opposed the barricades. According to an attorney who helped pressure Brookfield to remove the barricades says some 100 local residents sent letters to Brookfield demanding their removal. For now, they remain at the park, dormant but ready and waiting for the first sign of "stupidity." So far, they're just playing chess, celebrating, and holding the General Assembly.
I'm hoping to see one victory after another in the courts as legal actions taken by Occupiers against the Powers That Be who brutalized them and violated their rights come to fruition.
That's one way Civil Disobedience bears its fruit.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
It is a public park or, at least one with public access. It should be available to the public and that doesn't mean taken over by one any one group.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
...the larger point of the Occupy movement, but knock yourself out. Someone has to post that daring, thoughtful sentiment on every one of these threads.
"Won't somebody think about the children?" Another one of my faves.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
So you're comfortable with any self-selected group of people deciding which public roads, bridges or parks to convert to their own use and deny to everyone else? I wonder how you'd feel if you disagreed with their message? I wonder how you'd feel about their first amendment rights trumping everyone else's rights. I look forward to seeing the howls of protest the next time some goofballs use your logic to block public access to say, an abortion clinic? I'm not asking you to think of the children. I'm telling you that surrendering your rights to self selected minorities is stupid. Very stupid.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
You're trying really hard to find fault here and it's leading you down a silly road.
Aside from the fact that OWS doesn't stop people who want to use a public space from doing so (other than by the pure physics of occupying that space at the same time), blocking an abortion clinic is nothing like occupying a public park. Denying access to necessary medical care at a private facility infringes all sorts of rights and laws. Lying down on the grass in Zuccotti park does not.
And I'm not sure 99% is a minority...
. . . the police did.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Oh, dear. I see you have it all wrong again.
far left loon >.<
is duly noted.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
. . . to ensure that it remains available to the public.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Tell us where they should go to assemble and seek redress of grievances against the government and the people who buyout our government with legalized bribes?
You are saying that keeping a little spot of park land in NYC open is more important than ending the massive ripoffs by banksters and the selling of America to the highest bidder, right?
A little spot of park land is more important than the survival of democracy, right?
A little spot of park land is more important than keeping jobs here in the country, right?
BTW, you are not smart. Just annoying.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
You are saying that keeping a little spot of park land
They're not even keeping it. You or I would be free to enter if we went down there. Might meet some nice people too and share some lunch (I've donated $ and will do again). Hey hey. And I agree with your final statement.
far left loon >.<
"I'm sorry sir, your sack of nuts is too large for us."
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
So you own a struggling restaurant with a liquor license but you’re barely making payroll and the banks don’t want to give you any money to fix up the joint because restaurants are a notoriously bad bet. Hearing of your troubles, the local swarthy gentleman of means offers to make you a loan at the going street rate and, since your options are down to zero, you accept the offer and cross your fingers and hope for the best. With money in hand you make a few changes and business picks up with the addition of some new customers who happen to be business associates of your investor. Of course, being good buddies, their meals and drinks are frequently comped, but that’s the price of doing, and staying, in business.
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http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/11/leave...
The Tea Party prefers checkers.
Ed-words
The 1% prefer the game that involves sacrificing pawns.
It was the CIA & State Dept. that Issued the Passports to the 9/11 Terrorist Hijackers
http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2012/01/it-was-...
It’s bizarre how often nowadays one hears Occupy Wall Street talked about in the past tense—bizarre, especially, if one was at the strategy meeting of OWS’s Direct Action group on January 8. Around 150 of the movement’s most restless radicals sat on the hardwood floor and in folding chairs at 16 Beaver Street, half a block from the Charging Bull in downtown Manhattan. The purpose was a big-picture strategic discussion about where the movement’s tactics had taken it so far and where to go next in the coming months. As if to match the scale of the conversation, huge sheets of paper were spread across the center of the room, which scribes markered up with the gist of what was being said.
There was no lack of confidence to go around—just the kind of infectious naivete that drove some of these same people to take and hold Zuccotti Park back in September. They reviewed their favorite things about what they’d done since then: moments that captured the world’s attention and, especially, the ones in which they shed their own fear and had enough fun to want to continue. For better or worse, a lot of this still fixated on defying the police, rather than really challenging the economic order.
Read more: http://www.nationofchange.org/occupy-wall-str...
I give Occupy 110% support.
far left loon >.<
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