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National Bank Transfer Day: Remember, remember the fifth of November
I spent the last ten days traveling the Midwest and delivering supplies to occupations I visited. The donations of supplies were made with money from Firedoglake’s #OccupySupply Fund. I had to put FDL’s premier live blog that I had been operating on hiatus so I could make deliveries and also write about my visits to occupations.
I have finished my tour of occupations in the Midwest and am pleased to announce that the live blog will resume with coverage of today’s National Bank Transfer Day.
I expect this to be a day that rejuvenates many of the occupations. There will be stories coming from occupations that people thought no longer had people participating. It will be a reminder of the fact that the Occupy movement is a broad-based movement with people from not just major cities in the country but people from all over the United States, who support the growth of this movement to put an end to the undue influence of corporations and the top 1% on the US government.
Moreover, National Bank Transfer Day will demonstrate, once again, that this movement is not limited to the US and includes the world. In fact, Occupy Wall Street was inspired by uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Greece and Spain. So, when we talk about the Occupy movement, we are talking about a global uprising of people, who understand we are all in this together and must stand in strong opposition to the ruling class and power elites of the world that have pursued globalization or neoliberalism to an extent that has greatly impacted poor, working class and middle class people all over the world.
FDL’s premier live blog continues. Here is a Twitter list to follow for the latest on National Bank Transfer Day.
LIVE STREAM OF OCCUPY PROTEST ACTION VIA GLOBAL REVOLUTION
12:07 AM From the livestream (and via FDLer TarheelDem), this is an explanation of what happened in Atlanta:
In the park until 11pm; everyone but 3 people left the park and took to the streets in an unpermitted march. This brought out a large motorcycle contingent, horses, riot squad and SWAT team, all watched by a helicopter.
12:04 AM Right now, all looks okay at Occupy DC though there is chatter about a possible raid by police. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, a few dozen were arrested for engaging in civil disobedience as police moved in to disperse them from Troy Davis Park (Woodruff Park). And at one point police did tackle a few to the ground who were apparently not standing off to the side like they were instructed.
11:57 PM Occupy movement now has a commercial airing on television. [In fact, I just saw it on Nickelodeon.]
11:50 PM The distinct difference between the local NBC News affiliate and the Global Revolution livestream is that NBC stands where the police tells the press to stand. They record the demonstrators being escorted off peacefully by police, a perp walk that Big Bank executives thus far have managed to obstruct and prevent from happening to them. On the other hand, the Global Revolution livestream is unembedded and right where the demonstrators are who are risking arrest. In fact, the Global Revolution camera person caught the Atlanta police pouncing on a few occupiers like a pack of wolves. Only when this action had already happened did local news rush over to try and get some shots. But any brutality had already happened.
11:25 PM Local NBC affiliate in Atlanta has live feed of action in Atlanta. The live feed shows riot cops, caution tape and police on horses coming in to disperse occupiers.
11:16 PM @OccupyArrests current tally of those arrested at Occupy protests: 3269
10:20 PM Tonight, it looks like the occupations to watch are going to include Occupy Atlanta and Occupy Tulsa (h/t FDLer TarheelDem). I will be watching them both closely and I am going to add a livestream for Atlanta into the blog.
10:15 PM Occupy Boise now has an encampment. The occupiers have agreed to terms with city, one of the terms being only 15 occupiers will be permanent occupiers at a time. They will abide by this agreement until Occupy Boise can provide more services. [Discuss.]
9:58 PM ABC News - 1 million Americans have moved money out of Big Banks (video)
9:55 PM AP publishes a report on second Iraq War veteran brutalized by police at Occupy Oakland
9:51 PM Of note from OccupyTogether.org’s “Occupations Report” posted yesterday is this excerpt from the blurb on Occupy Boston (h/t FDLer ny40something):
…Yesterday Occupy Boston passed a resolution banning two members – Paul Carnes and Sydney Sherrell – from representing Occupy Boston. The resolution was passed by consensus by the General Assembly of and was distributed along with a list of grievances against Paul Carnes and copies of receipts from various transactions he paid for with Occupy Boston funds. Carnes and Sherrell had previously been banned from the Financial Accountability Working Group (FAWG) for inappropriate handling of funds and unsavory behavior. The grievances claim Carnes went to Occupy Cleveland, claiming to have been sent from Occupy Boston, and to be a representative of the National Lawyers’ Guild, and attempted to claim vertical leadership there. The group also says both Carnes and Sherrell set up a series of fundraising sites purporting to be for Occupy Boston among other occupations but are not part of FAWG.
10:47 PM Why she died appears to be currently unknown but CTV is reporting a woman in her 20s died in her tent at Occupy Vancouver.
10:40 PM Occupy Wall Street: 20 arrests reported today in front of state courthouse. The demonstrators assert they were on public sidewalk and the police had no right to tell them that they were blocking pedestrian traffic because as far as they concerned they are pedestrians.
9:35 PM Rebuild the Dream has managed to get more than 50,000 people to pledge to close their accounts at Bank of America, Chase and Citibank (and 24,000 people have pledged to close their accounts at other Big Banks)
8:53 PM Occupy Oakland (via @outinthespere)
8:46 PM Nation event featuring William Greider, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore and Rinku Sen at The New School in New York on November 10 (which I may be able to attend and live tweet).
7:58 PM Occupy Des Moines: A couple went into a Wells Fargo to close their business account—
…Among those entering the bank were Cat Rocketship and her husband, Scott Kubie, who closed their business account with Well Fargo — a key message of the social media-sparked “National Bank Transfer Day” initiative.
“It seems incongruous to have our money in a big bank while our business supports buying locally and the community,” Kubie explained.
“What are we paying these people for? I understand paying someone for innovation, but anyone can look at a spread sheet and say if we quit paying people, we’ll make more money.”
With all this push for people to move their money, how are credit unions faring?
Although Saturday was dubbed “National Bank Transfer Day,” credit unions in Iowa and throughout the country have received massive benefits in the weeks prior to the actual day of awareness and demonstration. The Iowa Credit Union League reports that its affiliates have gained $49 million in new deposits and 7,000 new members since the beginning of September. Nationally, credit unions have gain 650,000 customers and added $4.5 billion in new accounts during that same time, according to the Credit Union National Association.
(Oh, and, yes, I did notice her last name is Rocketship and her first name is Cat.)
7:47 PM Dallas police use pepper spray on Occupy Dallas during an action outside of a Bank of America branch
7:41 PM Three arrests at Occupy Riverside action at a Chase Bank branch (in California)
5:13 PM MSNBC’s John Schoen has a post about National Bank Transfer Day and how those withdrawing money won’t get a greater return on their money in credit unions. This is the type of commentary you get from corporate news commentators like Schoen, who just crunch the numbers and have no care for ethics or social justice. The people withdrawing money don’t want to be connected to criminal Big Banks anymore. Whether they lose a little money or not, in the long run they will have dignity and respect and the knowledge that they are not complicit.
5:11 PM And, the intersection is cleared. Protesters have left but not before right wingers had enough time to tweet their hopes of seeing them run over by drivers trying to get through the intersection.
5:05 PM At 5th & Pine intersection, Occupy Seattle protesters are holding a sit-in. Global Revolution has a livestream from the unfolding action. They are discussing banks & credit unions.
About two dozen are blocking the intersection.
4:56 PM Some music for today (via FDLer SouthernDragon). The song is “Direct Action” by Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco:
4:53 PM Four arrests during Occupy Wall Street’s Bank Transfer Day march. (Not sure for what yet.)
4:46 PM The Guardian, which is typically produces very good data journalism projects, has posted a map providing details on America’s poorest poor. It illuminates the best and worst cities. In the Midwest, Detroit is the worst with a poverty rate increase of 13%. In New York and Northern Jersey, the poverty rate actually decreased. Houston experienced a 5% increase in the poverty rate. In the West, Los Angeles’ poverty rate actually decreased 4.4% while in Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale increased the most (1.8%).
4:41 PM Occupy Chicago has Family Day in Grant Park
4:40 PM Report from Occupy London that 200 people were kettled at Parliament Square. There were a few arrests, possible cases of police brutality.
4:28 PM MoveOn joins in the Occupy Denver protest for National Bank Transfer Day, prompting one long-time occupier to comment, “We welcome all groups, but we ask that they don’t make it about the candidates and keep it about the issues.”
4:26 PM Occupy Santa Rosa picket four national banks
4:20 PM More than 200 people with Occupy Portland (in Oregon) leave citizens’ arrest warrants at Wells Fargo, US Bank and Chase bank branches
4:19 PM Los Angeles Times covers Occupy LA’s action today to mark National Bank Transfer Day:
Hundreds of protesters vented their frustration with Wall Street Saturday in a march through downtown L.A.’s financial district that at one point erupted into a pushing and shouting match with a counter-protester…
…Things turned tense when Mario Brito, an organizer with Occupy L.A., took to the microphone and was interrupted by a counter-protester who grabbed the microphone and yelled, “Mario, are you still a member of the Communist Party?”
2:43 PM RT’s report on Bank Transfer Day (video)
2:40 PM Occupy Wall Street march is moving to Foley Square and past City Hall. Reports from Democracy Now! Ryan Devereaux and @Newyorkist indicate things are going smoothly. The police presence is light in comparison to other actions and the NYPD is being cooperative with demonstrators right now.
2:37 PM On the bailout of Canadian banks (scroll down the post for the details)
2:31 PM Chicagoist reports on what Occupy Chicago is doing for National Bank Transfer Day
1:34 PM Occupy Streams: go here for a live stream from many of the occupations engaging in actions today
12:57 PM As St. Louis occupiers participate in National Bank Transfer Day, it is worth noting Mayor Francis Slay wrote a blog yesterday indicating if has anything to do with it Occupy St. Louis will be over soon.
…I know, and the Occupy participants know, that they cannot stay there forever. Bad weather and other programming for Kiener Plaza are racing each other to mark the end of their tenure.
The City’s Parks Department has prepared a list of ordinances and regulations which it believes Occupy is in current violation. We will present that list to Occupy…
12:12 PM This is being circulated right now (although posted a while ago): list of banks that were bailed out from CNN Money.
12: 10 PM Both Occupy Tulsa and Occupy Seattle participating in National Bank Transfer Day with planned actions.
11:38 AM This morning Occupy Raleigh startled Bank of America. BofA called the cops right away on protesters.
11:30 AM The 99% of St. Louis march on Bank of America on the eve of National Bank Transfer Day (video)
11:28 AM Anonymous’ video for OpCashBack or National Bank Transfer Day
11:25 AM Occupy Baltimore is out demonstrating at a Wells Fargo bank branch. The occupation is calling on people to support the city’s lawsuit against Wells Fargo for “illegal racist lending practices.”
11:24 AM A Big Banks Funeral march has been planned by Occupy San Diego. And, Business Week reports on Occupy Providence’s plans for the day
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Yay! Live blog is back!
Good to have you back kevin, and proud of you and fdl for the OccupySupply success.
Found on the OccupyOKC Facebook page:
Re London, UK and a live stream is up as they are marching and trying to avoid being kettled or diverted/trapped by police:
Contingent of police en route.
Well done, Kevin. You and the Occupiers make an old leftie proud.
Re Paris, FR:
More reports of police destroying demonstrators property and interfering in demonstrators distributing supplies.
Re London, UK:
March on the live stream. Police have the batons out; forming police line. #TheWorldIsWatching
I cancelled my Chase credit card today – took about 15 seconds with the customer service person on the phone (and about 3 minutes in the phone-tree to get there). I was stunned that they didn’t make me talk to three different people who would beg me to not go, it was very quick. I wonder if they just don’t have the time today to do the usual song and dance making it painful to cancel an account?
Hooray – I’m bank free at last!
PTB MOTU have dubbed these banks too big to fail
Bank of America, Bank of China, Bank of New York Mellon, Banque Populaire, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Commerzbank, Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dexia, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ING Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Lloyds Banking Group, Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho, Morgan Stanley, Nordea, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander, Société Générale, State Street, Sumitomo Mitsui, UBS, Unicredit Group and Wells Fargo.
Is is better to leave an overdrawn account at a Big Bank open, or is it better to pay off the balance and close the account? I suspect there are a number of peeps in the same position I’m in.
Check out occupydc.org to see what happened last night during the Occupy Koch Brothers action.
Occupy DC and DC police, as far as I know, haven’t had a serious tension before this, and Occupy DC has worked hard to avoid such tension.
Real-time BBC report re OccupyLSX: A group of protesters have reached Trafalgar Square in the final leg of their re-enactment of the 1936 Jarrow March.
Perky OccupyLSX “Breakfast News” citizen journalist negotiating as the police attempt to block demonstrator movement.
I wonder what would happen if a car plowed into a crowd of teabaggers?
Martial law.
Re London, UK:
Demonstrators want to determine where they have their General Assembly, not the police.
Why would anyone want to do that to their car?
The DC incident most likely would not have happened if the incident in Oakland had been handled properly and the driver taken into custody and charged. Now, with two incidents of hit and run at #occupy events that end with no accountability for the perp, we can expect an escalation of violence toward demonstrators.
I jumped the gun and opened an account yesterday at my local CU. An interesting affect of all the funds flowing into the CUs is the interest rate on savings is .10%. This is due to the fact that they cannot find qualified borrowers to loan the money to in this depressed economy.
I wonder what the long term affects will be since i see no way we can return to a Consumption driven economy, will CUs fail because of poor returns while holding huge reserves?
Not sure, but I’m happy to savor the mental image lol. Even more so if it was a crowd of politicians or bankers. Or “journalists.”
Re London, UK:
Nope! They will be happy to loan once they have a greater mass of customers. Especially to the new Co-Ops starting up because people are sick to death of Corporate rule.
Re Sydney, AU:
Police respond with force in Hyde Park | Nov. 5, 2011
Looking for a confirmation …
Re London, UK from live stream ( http://www.livestream.com/occupylsx?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks ):
Videographer being pushing out of the way by police … Reporting police pushing innocent bystanders.
Savings accounts in banks and credit unions have paid paltry interest for years and the majority of people who use credit unions don’t have savings accounts that are going to generate a lot of interest revenue in the first place. They use credit unions cuz the cu’s don’t fuck with them.
Delicious, although I don’t know about the veracity of this claim.
Normally I would say to pay your balance back, but I have a feeling that some law suits may come along soon. The TBTF owe the Americans more than they have on hand. Of course, it will affect your FICO score and while that is another entity that is about to be hit I think it will be at least seven years before the economy is humming again with true people power.
I’ve stated many times that Obama has to address the Bush Service economy issue. Our country can’t run on Bank and Investment Services, especially with no Central Planning for the bulk of the nation. Yet we see not one step he has made to correct that.
Occupy Tulsa livestreaming the march on the banks
Re London, UK:
Kettled in front of Parliament. In breach of the peace. Wait … now police are telling demonstrators that they can leave in small groups.
Amazing, the Ohio “Yes for SB 2″ had the Gov. of Indiana make a robo call recording.
A bunch of crap on my answering machine from the Gov of another state.
And to think the “Yes” folks think I will change my “No!” to “Yes.”
Oh, and let me guess. The bank puts a hold on your money like they do my sister. They hold your deposits for 5 to 10 days and NSF you for every withdrawal you make based on that deposit. Am I right?
LS – Occupy Tulsa
About 85 people demonstrating at Woodland Hills Mall. TPD has additional officers at the mall.
Reported that they already had protested in front of several banks on 71st Street.
LS – Occupy Tulsa
The protesters can’t block the sidewalk but must stay off the grass tree lawn between the sidewalk and the curb. Catch-22 much?
LS – Occupy Tulsa
TPD has paintball guns.
Story in the crowd that a pickup truck has an LRAD mounted on it.
Re State of Alabama:
What’s up with Tucson, AZ? There was no live stream hours ago when it thought that DHS had arrived at Occupy Tucson.
I can honestly say that I don’t know because I don’t use the account and haven’t for a long time, hence the overdrawn account. The bank charges have accrued while I’ve twiddled my thumbs rather than close the account. All my money has been in cash or through my biz with a community bank. Yes, the Big Bank held checks, but only the ones from out of state.
Occupy Baton Rouge reports that their livestream is up.
They are at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Wall Street will.
My sister, about to lose her home to Chase borrowed money from my Mom to save her home. Both Mom and Sis bank at the dasterdly BOA. Mom wrote a check for 5K. Sis took it to the bank to cash. BOA told Sis no go because she had no money in her account to cover the check if it was no good. She asked bank to verify Mom’s account. They would not do so in front of her. They told her she had to deposit but it would be on hold for 5 to 10 days.
Sis went berzerk, then she cried in the bank. Then she jerked the check out of tellers hand and took it back to my elderly and ill mother and told her the story. Poor Mother about had a stroke. Called bank and was transfered and voice prompted all around the world and never able to speak to anyone. Finally, Sis went back to the bank and told teller she had to have the money to save her home. Still they wanted to make her deposit with a hold. Sister said she would not leave the bank until they cashed the check. Manager after manager came to speak about policy. When they realized she was not going to leave or stop crying they finally cashed the check.
Occupy Baton Rouge livestream
Occupy Tulsa is at the BoA branch at Woodland Hills Mall
Direct Action
If you’re just accruing fees go in, pay off the fees and close your account. By not doing so you’re just giving them money for nothing.
Re London, UK:
Original live stream team has been escorted out. New LS operator less experienced and apologizing for more sporadic coverage.
Occupy Tulsa has already had 2 people say they are closing their BoA accounts. Cars going to the mall are honking in support.
Re Paris FR:
Photo of French demonstrator sign–
Fuckers. They *wanted* your sis to lose her house so they could seize the house for themselves. Consolidation of wealth.
According to the CU manager i spoke with the Gov dictates the interest rate paid on savings using the cash to loan ratio. This makes sense since they need to generate income to be able to pay interest. Banks are paying 1% on savings while this CU can only pay .01%.
My point was that without demand for loans or growth in consumer demand how can we escape the downward spiral we are in.
Yeah, I have to struggle to pay it off now, and I can’t close the account until I’ve got the money. So if I close it out today, they win. It’s fucked up, but I was stupid not to close the account before.
Yep. Golden Sacs and Banksta of America want to rule and own the world!
I am amazed that there is an Occupy Baton Rouge. Happy, too.
Well, credit unions were first established for people who the banks didn’t want, low wage public workers. The influx of new customers should boost rates and the more people who join the better it gets.
RE London, UK:
I’m going to take some sleeping bags to Zucotti this coming week. Can I just drop them off or do I need to make advance arrangements?
Just a thought. Go to your friends and family and tell them that you’d like to borrow 5-10-20 bucks, tell them why and that you’ll pay them each back as you can. When you’ve got enough dust go take care of business with the bank.
We are in a similar situation but from four or five years ago when WaMu was still “viable”. We owe $700 in fines for a $200 dollar overdraft. I refuse to try and pay it since their practices in how the overdraft was funneled into our account were corrupt. This prevents us from opening an account at a local bank. We got into WF before the info hit the credit bureau. We are fortunate because our credit score is so bad we have nothing to lose. That is another, very long story.
I imagine if you show up with sleeping bags at one of the tables they’ll be able to point you in the right direction. No appointments necessary. *g*
That’s what I figured but I thought I’d ask to see if anyone knows for sure.
EXCELLENT IDEA!
I can’t say much more aside from:
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
LS – Occupy Tulsa UStream is offline.
March completed. Relocating.
Hang on … let me see if I can find out for you, eCAHN. Back in a few minutes …
From http://occupywallst.org/donate :
They call the table or area that keeps that stuff, “The Comfort Zone”, or something like that. Regardless, they will help you and direct you to the right place. You are a good soul, Ecahn.
eCHAN @ #53
you might check the occupywallst.org page and see if they have a contact email re in person donations. kevin may be busy and not catching your inquiry.
karen
I’ll look for it.
Stay tuned for Denver Updates; I think we made the right decision not to go down there today.
The Denver Police have already suited up the SWAT Team by Civic Center Park (and it’s just short of 12:00 noon here), and they’ve brought out the horses too for Mall Patrol – something they haven’t used to date.
Thanks for doing that, eCAHN.
Sounds like eyeballs should be on Denver!
Re London, UK:
Citizens staying calm despite being still kettled in front of Parliament. Apparently “V for Vendetta” will be played on BBC tonight. Legal observers are present with the demonstrators to give demonstrators advise and are wearing orange. Hearing the great bell toll.
Gotta email from there with an autoreply that they got too many emails to reply to personally.
Thanks mz. That will save me some schleping around.
!De nada! Why schlep when you can glide?
ECahn, I took a bin of tarps and bungees to Occupy and left them in front of the unidentified guy asleep in the lawn chair. Look for him, I think he’s in charge. (I’m not sure, because he wasn’t waking up for me, must have been really, really tired)
Anyway, must have been him, ’cause a coupla hours later I went by and saw some of the tarps had been put up. The guy was asleep again though, and wasn’t available for comment.
Whup, yer on the FBI’s list now if you weren’t before, but being here all this time it’s prolly more like, oh, her again. *g*
Occupy Denver UStream
*waving* to FBI, CIA, NSA, KGB, MI6, etc poor guys who have to spend their lives looking at boring mine.
History continues to be made in London, UK today:
A legal update on the live stream re the 15,000 people in Parliment Square that have already be granted to be there by permit. “Democracy Village” and “Make War History” are the themes. Arrests of peaceful, non-violent people legally gathered at Parliament Square would be unlawful and the police could be sued.
52 Broadway seems like a better bet. Then they’ll be inside & hopefully some one will see that they get to the neediest participants.
Re Paris, FR:
The occupy in St. Louis has a donations tent and that’s where I dropped of my donations. I am not sure but believe every occupy should be similar. Just a guess.
Thanks. mzchief got me the specific info above in 60.
Looks like the mayor of St. Louis has said enough and will start coming down on the protesters. I thought he was going to be different. Sigh!
Sorry I was late in posting. *g*
Re Dublin, Ireland … live stream up, party, great music & the people are dancing ( http://www.livestream.com/occupydamestreet ):
That’s what I was going to look for but I’ve got 3 sleeping bags, 2 of which are bulky, and my knees ain’t great, so anything that makes it easier will help a lot.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet: Koch Group Gathering Disrupted by Occupy DC Protesters; Things Get Tense as Activists Surround Building
Tracy Henke at last night’s Americans for Prosperity gala:
Time for a really happening dance party (see “Dancing on Our Occupation Permit, October 2011).
I’m rereading the section of Zinn about the VN war protests.
We’ll see what happens, but it strikes me that OWS started late but is spreading much faster.
Re London, UK:
Re Dublin, Ireland:
i had a “discussion” with my credit union in oregon when i was in the same situation. in the end they agreed to credit me all the extra charges and close my account. so, you could try talking with them and see if they’ll reverse the charges. not trying to say a big bank will behave like that credit union did, but i did have to keep insisting for quite a while before they finally did it, so maybe some persistence will work for you too. there’s nothing to lose.
I have been observing some really bright, motivated and understanding folks making things happen there. A phone call ahead to let them know you need a bit of physical assistance with the donations won’t hurt (I found the following info here):
Thanks. I have a gigantic duffel bag they’ll all fit into. Handles on duffel bag can be slung over my shoulder. I’m planning on taking the subway bc I think taxis might get too snarled in traffic with everything that’s going on. But I’ll keep the phone numbers on me, so that if I run into problems, or get tired, I’ll give some one a shout out for help.
The anti-Vietnam War infrastructure never really disappeared completely. And the inspiration of the Civil Rights movement affected liberation struggles in South Africa and Eastern Europe. And then the immediate experiences from Tunisia, Egypt, and Spain that have fed into the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The technology of the internet makes it easier to communicate internally and reduces the cost and availability of high-quality printed materials. Anyone who toiled with a ditto machine or a mimeograph or hand silk-screened posters knows the difference. In addition the reach of the networking the internet provides is greater.
In addition, participatory democracy techniques have become refined and structured to encourage broader actual participation and a more rapid drive to a consensus. And folks have gotten experience from various sources in formal facilitation and packaged them into a “make your own nonviolent revolution” set of short documents distributed over the web.
So some random person in say Latta SC can pluck the documents off the web, set up a Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress account for occupylattasc, start promoting it among his/her friends, call the first general assembly, and they are off and running. The clarity of where the pain is coming from in the group, the ability to avoid co-option, and the ability to have a creative local strategy takes care of the rest. And then Latta becomes a demonstration to all the communities in which there are social and social network contacts of the folks in the Latta movement.
And it moves rapidly. Squash out Latta and Branchville SC or Preston GA have already taken its place while the folks in Latta regroup.
BTW when the movement occupies these towns, it will likely be irreversible.
Re London, UK:
LS – Occupy Denver
Rallying at a bank.
I have started re-reading A peoples History and I am up to the civil war and the only way change happened was by revolts and people rising up. I think today is no different. IMHO
They’re in front of the Federal Reserve branch here at 16th & Arapahoe.
Guy on the bullhorn for a while is a gold bug. Blergh.
LS – Occupy Denver
There are kids in the crowd at the rally.
What is a gold bug?
Thanks. The UStream is working if you want to blog it.
Occupy Denver UStream now offline.
Wants a return to the Gold Standard. It’s a Paulbot thing.
Earlier I reread the section describing how Ellsberg & Russo copied the PPs. It doesn’t specify how many days & nights it took them to duplicate the 7,000 page document at a friend’s ad agency, but it was quite a chore and an accomplishment.
Today, you could just link!
Precisely one of the messages I got from the book. Direct participation. Voting doesn’t matter.
No it doesn’t. Took me awhile to figure it out but better late than never.
I’ve never understood why any one would want South Africa to control U.S. monetary policy. It’s a complete mystery to me. And on the rare ocassions I type that where there are Paulbots present, it gets ignored.
Well, there’s a big gold legacy here from the mining days.
The Little Johnny mine that made John & Molly Brown’s fortune is still part of pop culture here. So we have an inordinate amount of gold bugs here partially for that reason.
Hey, I’ve just figured out voting doesn’t matter in the past year. And it wasn’t as though I just woke up one night & slapped my forehead as it occurred to me like a thunderbolt. It dawned on my gradually as I read comments here about ‘who ya gonna vote for’ and never any cogent answers.
Ya gotta vote as your civic duty was one of the distractions the 1%ers drilled into us from earliest grades. They should never have stopped elementary school civics. It was such a great propaganda tool for the PTB.
In the mid-1970s during a period of underemployment I had a job operating a internal dedicated copying service for an office that was churning out gobs of paper. I worked the copier on demand for 40 hours a week and averaged 100K impressions a week. When the copier did not jam.
Earlier in the decade, copiers jammed frequently and did fewer copies per minute. So a good guess for 7000 pages in 16-20 hours of continuous copying and rerunning misaligned pages. For 1 set of pages.
Russia is another gold producer, is it not?
LOL.
Have you ever gone down in a mine as a tourist adventure. There was one open in Utah for awhile when I skied there, but it always boiled down to: go skiing or go for a mine tour, and guess which won.
I think Russia also has a lot of gold. Wouldn’t that be ironic to give Russia a hand in determining U.S. monetary policy.
Oops. Here’s the list. China first, U.S. second (that surprises me), Russia 4, S. Africa 5.
Link at 111. China’s #1!
Yeah it was gradual for me as well. Especially the fine voices here at FDL help me realize it. Reading Zinn and Hedges helped me as well.
My memory of copiers in the 1970s is that they were down half the time, either awaiting the repair man or having him work on it.
Here in Rancho Cordova on the American River, we don’t own the mineral rights to our property. I have, though, seen people diving or panning for gold in the river. Maybe I should join them. heh.
I’ve found the same to be true when I ask them how they’re going to restructure the monetary system or any other question that requires an answer that goes deeper than “Return to the gold standard!” Mostly it’s because they don’t understand what they’re talking about.
Maybe a local FDLer can provide you a helping hand? I know I can get tired schlepping stuff via mass transit which can be hard on the knees, back and feet.
And once I figured out that voting didn’t matter, only direct participation did, the next Q was, how do you get direct participation going. What is the spark. And voila!
I have said for years & years & years, that if U.S. consumers did a short boycott, say bought NOTHING for a week, it would shake every corp in the world to their skid-stained undies.
Zinn helped me to understand the conditions under which mass movements get started, what they’re up against when they do, and how hard the struggle is to even reap small benefits.
Agree that most Paulbots don’t have any understanding deeper than slogans. They live in a world that has simple rules, and if you only follow them, everything will work out just fine.
Sigh. Sometimes I wish I were living in their world.
It’s one of the reasons OWS & Paulbots can’t join meaningfully in a movement. OWS sees the world in much more complex ways. It’s not as though some of the goals aren’t similar. It’s that the methods are much more complicated.
At these prices, hell yes.
Yes you are right this is only the beginning it is a marathon not a sprint. But at least it has been started. I am proud to be involved in it. Thanks for your strong voice in informing us you are valued as a strong voice for FDL.
Thanks.
My sense of civic duty to vote was instilled in me by my parents and my teachers who learned that lesson when they voted for FDR and he won. It was also a part of the 20th century progressive strategy that thought you could beat the 1% at the ballot box and they came close enough for it to be believable. That changed in the reaction to FDR and amped up with the Lewis Powell memo in the Nixon administration.
Post-2000 I look at voting like playing the nickel slots when stopping for gas traversing Nevada. You put in a nickel. Some times it pays off in as many as five nickels, most times not. Small investment in, sometimes it works well enough.
Taking twenty to thirty minutes to mark a piece of paper (optical scan here) every year is not that big a burden. If nothing else it reminds politicians how many people are sorta sometimes watching them and how many are not on their side.
Mostly it depends on the political culture, and the current political culture is not the same as it was in 1932.
That seems to be what RT’s Mark Keiser is up to.
Aha I just noticed that S. Africa was #1 in 2006, same link. So my stab at it was just a bit dated. But having China and Russia,two of the few countries whose gold production went up between 06 and 09, in charge of U.S. monetary policy, would simply be too delicious for words.
See my comment below yours. Sometimes it pays to look at the linked info for a bit longer than a glance. One might accidentally learn something. *g*
Occupy Denver UStream is back up
We lived across the street from a small triangular park, and the voting booth was trucked in. It looked like one of those Monopoly pieces, partitioned to 2 voting sections & a smaller one where the person sat who compared signature with registration. So my first time in a voting booth I might have just learned how to walk. (Bday end of Oct, so I doubt I got taken there when I was about a week old.) It does drill it into your core.
My other reaction to your comment is that since forever (JFK? He was the last prez who fooled me) I have not voted FOR a prez, only voted AGAINST the other guy.
Yeah, voting for prez, sen or rep is like a nickel slot. I have to agree with Emma Goldman where national races are concerned. That said, on state, county and local issues voting can, and does, actually make a difference.
I have a different perception. First you at least push back on the manipulation of precious metals markets to weaken the rigged fiat systems. Then you pull the rug out of the TBTF with what we are doing now. Keiser has been instrumental in this. Check out his Tahrir Square broadcast. Also there is a contingent of people of Russian and Eastern European background (talk about dogged) that do not think well of the incredibly corrupt Russian or any other central government playing the 1%er games of nukes and the other deadly GWOT (Cold War on steroids) games (e.g. drones).
Checking back in.
Authorized Protests. (shakes head)
What a sick world we live in.
Occupy Charlotte UStream
That is one other thing that I hope the Protests address and that is the black box vote machines. I know, I know. It will be rigged anyway because we don’t have a true vetting process.
Occupy Charlotte really needs help. They need VLad for a couple of weeks.
Hey no mention of Occupy Orlando’s bank protest march today
I went and have the t-shirt to prove it. I left the live stream up on my computer,just in case my husband was interested. He was. Every time I walked into the live stream he called me. Too funny.
We walked past the Orlando Presbyterian church where a fall festival was being held and they were giving, wait for this…. pony rides. The irony.
Aside from the police escorting the protesters, on bikes, the only police presence was police cars blocking intersections so we could pass.
A teapartier wanted to do a human mic. After he got booed but good, he started talking without the human mic. Then everyone walked out of the plaza in front of city hall. I guess, we left him there.
Re London, UK:
Doing a huddle right now …
Do you mean facilitation or livestreaming?
Hey– you’re giving the report now … { hands Tuezday the bullhorn }
Orlando didn’t tweet anything under Occupy Orlando. Thanks for bring us this firsthand report.
There’s actually a very good diary about this over at Daily Kos too.
Both. I don’t want to say anything bad for someone reading to run with it and use it against them. They are my local occupy, so I am concerned. They have had infiltrators, arguments, and competition from a rightie crazy group.
They need support from Vlad on how to handle these issues and help them grow.
Opened my account. Teller says business is up and “oh, yeah, I did hear about the move-your-money thing.” She was an English teacher and connected the Guy Fawkes Day herself. Geez, all these banking services free and a % interest, too!
WHOOP!
That story is from my area. Oh, just WHOOP! Good on them.
I think that credit unions must be what banks were like when safeguarding your money was their privilege and not yours.
There is not much to say about the Orlando march. The weather was perfect, people friendly. It was a good time with like minded people of all ages and varieties. The mayor is supportive, so I think that makes Orlando a rather nice place to protest.
One thing I will say, I wouldn’t last a mile in San Fran or Denver.
I want to burn it into folks’ minds that a credit union is a member-owned and operated cooperative. It’s like Wheatsville except specializing in the other kind of cheddar. As a member, you will want to be active and take advantage of the latest consensus-making tools in running it.
LS – Occupy Charlotte
Back at the Occupy Charlotte encampment
I found myself having to walk down a couple of blocks on one of SF’s steep hills when I was 8 months pregnant, dressed in biz attire. It was interesting. I kept imagining myself pitching forward.
From Credit Unions to Workers Unions!
Absolutely! You become an owner when you open the account. My CU sends out a monthly magazine, has quarterly membership meetings, and the people that work in the branches are top notch with customer service.
No sour faces, no attitude, and always willing to help. I once had to transfer funds to Canada and our small local CU did that for me with no problems!
you guys are so cute…..The big banks will be quaking when they don’t get your $200 in deposits…..
I would call 14,000 Coloradans moving $100 Million out of banks and into Credit Unions in the last 4 weeks awfully damn cute.
And that was before today.
Man! Talk about missing the point! MSNBC has an opinion piece up about Bank Transfer Day and the author seems to think that the unhappy depositors are after a “bigger return”.
Just CLUE-LESS! I love it! To make matters more delicious, take a look at the snap poll embedded there. It asks “Are you leaving your bank to protest higher fees?” Unbelievable.
Ouch – that must have left a mark.
If you think the big banks are laughing this off, I recommend that you do a little surfing. There is an underlying sense of panic, usually expressed in the form or arrogance toward smaller depositors and smarming up to the larger ones closing their bank accounts.
Gotcha. If you get back there, tell them a veiwer on the UStream thinks they should practice pacing their marches so that they stay pretty tight together. That discipline could come in handy later on. It also visually makes it look like more people from the UStream. Whereas a large straggly group looks smaller than it actually is. And in tense situations can create problems. Internalizing tactical discipline can help prevent harm in some tense situations; you move intuitively in a way that helps out.
The livestream needs a source of power (the cam operator was discussing options with another person). And the internet team needs to recruit and train more people on the setup and figure out have to have a multicam setup so that there is no outage for battery changes.
The facilitation issue just takes focus on (1) keeping the process honest and (2) reasserting the purposes of the general assemblies and the ground rules. And not being bugged by meetings that go on and on “unproductively”. They might network with Occupy Nashville, Occupy Atlanta, and Occupy Columbia to get new approaches to what are common problems (and no doubt likely to be persistent problems) in the general assemblies. Also training additional facilitators so that there is redundancy and different styles can help. Just my two cents from having done facilitation.
Yep, we’re doing the big banks a service. Takes liabilities off their balance sheet. And lowers their transaction and branch deployment costs. Now they will be free to respond to their larger customers. Let’s see how long they can nickel-and-dime them with service fees.
Will do. I have seen Vlad at other Occupation sites. Really wish he could help them out. Afterall, Charlotte is the National Headquarters for BOA!
For Pete’s Sake they need some heavy support!
BACK EAST!
Hey, think of what a time saver it will be for them not to have to keep up with millions of tiny accounts. Heck, the tellers will be able to file their nails and the branch managers can take a three hour lunch instead of a two hour.
But you’re hurting the local economy bc all those tellers filing their nails will be fired. /mikebloomberg
eCAHN — You have one of those folding luggage racks with a bungee cord that you can trundle that stuff from your car to the drop-off site? If not you, maybe a neighbor has one you can borrow? Or maybe go in the drop-off site first and see if they have someone who can help you carry?
Going into the city by bus.
It’s not a matter of magic personality. It’s just hanging in there and getting the experience of how to do things. If you want, think of it as having already having probably a hundred or a thousand Vlads out there in the various occupy sites. Think in terms of crowdsourcing wisdom instead of depending on perceived expertise. No one person is indispensable. No one person has privileged wisdom.
What is Vlad? I googled it but the results didn’t seem to fit.
Your side is losing right now. You know that, don’t you? Everything you despise is gaining support. More and more people are taking a stand for social justice. Your snark has a currency value that is rapidly dropping.
Vlad was one of the facilitators (is this right?) at OWS NYC. And a frequent presence discussing the movement on the livestream. He was very perceptive about group dynamics, strategy, and tactics. And I think help set up the technology for the livestream.
Thanks. No wonder he didn’t come up on google.
I see headedwest’s sockpuppet is baaaack…
Occupy Columbia livestream
Teach-in on corporatocracy going on right now.
They’re both hit ‘n run kinda people, assuming there are really two of them.
I wonder if BackEast knows that the banks DON’T charge the wealthy the same fees and give them crap like they do the rest of the country.
Something tells me that BackEast doesn’t really know about high finance.
Or low finance.
Occupy Roanoke photo set
Me neither
LOL priceless.
Occupy Virginia Beach poll:
Or much else.
Let’s be PC and give the person the benefit of the doubt. S/he, being hit ‘n runner, has not commented enough to make sweeping conclusions about what s/he knows. *g*
A little pimping here. Click the link @185. You’ll know what to do.
Yes 48, no 51.
Done.
That’s a pretty conservative corner of VA (I used to live there). It will be interesting to see how the poll comes out…
By the way, TarheelDem, I want to say thanks for your contributions to the liveblogs over the past several weeks. They have been a huge asset for those of us trying to follow along at home as best we can.
This has at least 3 effects:
1. Takes your money and support out of the big banks. Makes you feel cleaner.
2. Encourages others to do the same. The more who do this, the more people know they have other options besides big banks and don’t feel like they’re taking a chance or being a weirdo for using a credit union.
3. Hurts local branches. They are pressured to sell, to sign up accounts, to keep accounts. If they keep losing accounts due to customer frustrations, the branch managers will have to pressure those above them to do something to stop this or they’re going to lose their branch. Maybe the upper managers don’t care as long as they find ways to keep pulling in record profits, since a few banks have branches on every corner like drugstores and convenience stores now. We’ll see.
I appreciate your kind words.
Virginia Beach is a strategic location, being where the Pat Robertson empire is located.
Occupy Chattanooga livestream
Been reading “The Occupations Report: 11/04″
http://www.occupytogether.org/2011/11/05/the-occupations-report-1104/
couple things of note from yesterday:
“Occupy Boston
…Yesterday Occupy Boston passed a resolution banning two members – Paul Carnes and Sydney Sherrell – from representing Occupy Boston. The resolution was passed by consensus by the General Assembly of and was distributed along with a list of grievances against Paul Carnes and copies of receipts from various transactions he paid for with Occupy Boston funds. Carnes and Sherrell had previously been banned from the Financial Accountability Working Group (FAWG) for inappropriate handling of funds and unsavory behavior. The grievances claim Carnes went to Occupy Cleveland, claiming to have been sent from Occupy Boston, and to be a representative of the National Lawyers’ Guild, and attempted to claim vertical leadership there. The group also says both Carnes and Sherrell set up a series of fundraising sites purporting to be for Occupy Boston among other occupations but are not part of FAWG.”
Here’s another thing I thought noteworthy:
“Occupy Wall Street
The Inter-Occupy Facilitation Group seeks feedback about a proposal for Inter-Occupy Consensus. If you are interested in developing a process for multiple Occupy groups to consent on proposals, please participate. If you are willing to liaison between your local GA and Inter-Occupy Facilitation Group please join the discussion. Please see http://eepurl.com/gSLWT to participate in the discussion.”
Occupy Miami livestream – Occupalooza
Occupy Tulsa – Bank of America
Invest in KY
Occupy Houston livestream – General Assembly
Jordan Steffen, The Denver Post: Occupy Denver protesters move to Skyline Park, migrate to banks
How did I know that if I scrolled to the bottom of this thread I’d find TarheelDem and ny40something?
Occupy Austin has apparently been too busy to tweet. So I guess you brought the report, eh?
I went into Chase this morning and closed my accounts. The 2 (two!) people that helped me, at the same time (weird?) asked me if I was a Veteran. I guess I look like prior service. I told them no and they proceeded to explain that they were launching new accounts for Veterans later this month that included zero ATM fees, free cashiers’ checks and higher interest rates. I said “Funny you should mention Vets! I brought you 20+ pages of stories from a website. These stories are all from ACTIVE SERVICE MEMBERS that Chase foreclosed on in the last 3 years”. Handed the young lady the printout.
At this point the guy left to get my money. She read the top of the front page of my printout for a few seconds and said “I didn’t realize this was happening.”
I replied “Yep. This is who you work for.”
The gentleman returned with my funds and my receipts.
The young lady looked at me and said “I’m so sorry”.
I told her “When Jamie Dimon apologies, gives these men and women their homes back, and steps down I’ll bring my money back.” and walked out.
Negative Ghost Rider. I haven’t been down there this week. The lack of tweets is frustrating me, too. The local news covers them every day, though. We get to keep up with the activity that way.
On the subject of National Bank Transfer Day, I’m interested to see the numbers over the next few days. I want to know how many accounts were closed, how much money was moved. How much of an impact did we make?
Good job. Now ask the local credit union to offer any new opening to the young lady at Chase.
I’m headed over to the local CU on Monday to open new accounts. I’ve got 1 left at Chase, the account my payroll is direct-deposited to. I’ve got to open a new account and switch the direct deposit stuff with my office before I can close that last one.
I’ll put in a good word for her while I’m there
You rock!
Well I gave up watching TV 2 years ago and otherwise have no social life (once a month or so I join a few guys to play Dungeons& Dragons like we did when when we were younger, just for nostalgia mostly).
I am a total news junkie and just happen to find myself directing most of my attention to anything OWS-related the last month or so.
I do find the whole movement fascinating to watch as it unfolds.
I’m not quite up to the point of going off myself to participate directly (nothing close enough yet) so I see this as my way of contributing something in support.
You’re doing a wonderful thing here. Really. All of the folks who soldier through the tweets and the stories and watch the live feeds and consolidate pertinent information are doing a huge service. You’re one of these folks.
Thank you for what you’ve done.
I try. Every once in a great while it works.
Just back from Lisa Fithian, TK and Juniper’s workshop. There were about 40 of us there. Part of it was about our collective liberations from oppressing and being oppressed within the occupations and part of it was a mini course on best practices for facilitators. It was excellent. Tomorrow will be about direct action activities and the police.
I met an interesting young man there. He and his two brothers and his mother were also there. They’ve left home (New Mexico) and recently moved to a little town outside of Austin. Now they’ve gotten suddenly into the occupations and they’re planning to sell their possessions, buy an RV and just go from occupation to occupation. All very lovely people.
I love how they ran the workshop so that we all got to get to know each other a little and can pursue further relationships with people we like and/or are doing things we like. They had so many little activities that mixed us up in different configurations for small and medium size groups that by the end I was fascinated by how much I’d connected with and learned about the people there in just two and a half hours.
what did i miss this afternoon?
I….MUST…..REMEMBER…….THAT!
You’re welcome.
I am considering getting myself some books by Gandhi and Zinn to read over the winter to further prepare myself for future participation.
I guess I was always pre-disposed to be sympathetic to a movement like this due to my grandparents’ stories of the Depression and the fact I have a lot of Boston Irish in my ancestry… some of my relatives were probably sending money to the IRA up to the 80′s. (I suppose both strands are sort of about struggling to fight for people being oppressed in different ways.)
#Caingrich is the #4 global trend on twitter right now. Lol.
It was Bank Transfer Day
Kevin has linked a good roundup of different actions across the country above.
Also, in NYC, OWS marched to a courthouse in Foley Square to protest against the proposed mortgage mess settlement with a lot of states (the NY AG has pulled out already). A few folks in NY got arrested but not sure if was related to this action or for what.
Kevin – Your 8:53 photo from Occupy Oakland is from Wednesday’s general strike.
thanks. i’m about halfway through the comments above.
Christopher Quinn and Shelia M. Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Occupy Atlanta | Protesters return downtown
Looks we watch Atlanta and Tulsa (scheduled 11pm CT daily arrests by the TPD) tonight. Any ones outside the South that we should watch?
Occupy Atlanta livestream
Offline at the moment, but at tweet put out the URL.
“Occupy Atlanta
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference which was once headed by Martin Luther King has pledged to mentor and guide the Occupy Atlanta movement, a branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The decision to mentor Occupy Atlanta came after a six hour meeting led by SCLC President Isaac Newton Farris, Jr.”
http://www.occupytogether.org/2011/11/03/the-occupations-report-1103/
Thanks for the heads up. I will get a live stream of Occupy Atlanta into the blog.
That is excellent news both for Occupy Atlanta and for putting some energy in the SCLC.
OWSAtlanta Occupy Atlanta
livestream.com/occupyatlanta
is up! @OccupyArrests @GlobalRevLive
10 minutes ago
http://www.livestream.com/occupyatlanta
something is trying to load but since it’s a weekend (suspect neighborhood kids using filesharing or gaming on weekends) I’m getting a long wait for it to start so can see if live or not
Last night the citations at Occupy Tulsa were pro forma. Hopefully they will be that way tonight as well.
What’s on the Occupy Atlanta livestream at the moment is recorded interviews prior to the first eviction from Troy Davis/Woodruff Park.
LOL
jopauca jopauca
Occupy Lego Land at #OccupyWallStreet =) twitpic.com/7ba7w1
48 minutes ago
https://twitpic.com/7ba7w1
OccupyTulsa Occupy Tulsa
Solidarity to the new Occupy Muskogee! fb.me/txgbwhvz
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Occupy Nashville
OccupyNashville Occupy Nashville
FACILITATION TRAINING Sunday Nov. 6 Noon-12:45 At the People’s Plaza at the Tennessee Flagpole This will be an… fb.me/1qjl7UPWy
5 minutes ago
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Livestream is online. Word is that there are some prominent politicians who might be arrested with the occupiers tonight.
Livecam is wandering around perimeter showing the current police presence. Helicopters overhead.
DhaniBagels Dhani Bagels
Stop calling the vandals from #occupyoakland “Anarchists.” That is pure speculation and unfair to Anarchists. #oo #generalstrike #ows
32 minutes ago
he seems to always be getting arrested as he seems to stand his ground a lot; been arrested in NY Seattle Oakland…
how cute!
Just kiddin’ eCAHN, in my case “Occupy” Is Occupy Bellingham…
I collect LEGO so yeah that jumped out at me. Had to cut back a lot lately as it can be expensive hobby.
OccupyTampa Occupy Tampa
Police presence at the park where occupy is camped out (Park next to Curtis Hixon)If you can get down there please… fb.me/I8cgFSRi
2 minutes ago
garethfenley Gareth Fenley
Georgia Sen Vincent Fort: “We need you in the streets, we need you in the suites, we need you in this park” #occupyatlanta #ows
1 minute ago
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Gareth Fenley
garethfenley Gareth Fenley
State Sens Vincent Fort and Nan Orrock are speaking to #OccupyAtlanta rallying crowd 25 minutes before eviction deadline #ows
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occupyAtlanta Bot
occupyAtlBot occupyAtlanta Bot
RT @atlveg More & more officers arriving, fire trucks circling the block & helicopter over head. Many cop cars around. #occupyatlanta #ows
3 minutes ago
Occupy_USA OccupyUSA
#OWS: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET Mock Trial of Goldman Sachs (Full Video) – (3…: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET Mock Tria… bit.ly/stFGlO
#OccupyUSA
2 minutes ago
http://occupywallstreet.tumblr.com/post/12399514350/occupywallstreet-mock-trial-of-goldman-sachs
LS – Occupy Atlanta
State Sen. Nan Orrock told the crowd that in GA, the governor and secretary of labor are cutting the unemployment insurance checks to allow for a $50 million tax cut to corporations.
One arrest already. Someone in a fatigue jacket.
Police are setting up double rows of barricades.
Alright, TarheelDem and ny40something are watching Atlanta? I’ll take Tulsa.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
There is a row of people outside the barricades who have unfurled a long narrow banner that is crime tape yellow. It’s like 30 feet long or more and 12 inches wide. On it is printed the text of the First Amendment to the Constitution. Awesome.
NBC Tulsa News report.
Thanks. You might have to wait until after 10 pm CT or so to get a livestream. They try to run on one battery charge.
sickjew sick jew
#occupyworcester under threat of eviction from police – moving to Worcester common occupyboston.org/2011/11/05/occ…
#ows
6 minutes ago
I’ve got two feeds up. Neither is live. I’ll keep an eye on them.
Thanks for that link!
LS – Occupy Atlanta
People are taking down their tents because the APD likes to steal the tents and destroy them.
papicek papicek
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@allredtodorojo It’d be nice if #moveyourmoneySaturday became a weekly event. Kind of like the Friday rallies at #Tahrir #ows #occupyboston
1 minute ago
KitLewis KitLewis
I can see people moving around the Suntrust building overlooking the park. Looks to be a temporary command post of sorts… #OccupyAtlanta
1 minute ago
While I’m waiting for Tulsa…
Everyone has seen this from the other day, right? The Occupy Chi folks scaring the shit out of Scott Walker?
OccupyDallas Occupy Dallas
#OccupyDallas witnessed brute force & further evidence of a #corrupt system today. The #DPD’s actions were unlawful. #TheWorldIsWatching
3 minutes ago
Picture.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Folks speculating that the double barricades are to prevent folks passing stuff in or out of the park at the last minute.
APD, Occupy Atlanta prepare for new showdown Downtown
http://www.11alive.com/rss/article/211884/3/APD-Occupy-Atlanta-prepare-for-new-showdown-Downtown
atlveg Elena
We’re outside the barricade. Officers are grouping at the perimeter… #occupyatlanta #ows
2 minutes ago
11pm …
Quirin64 Holly (Quirin)
Atlanta facing arrests – NEED BODIES! livestream.com/globalrevoluti…
#OWS #OccupyWallSt #OccupyTogether #OccupyAtlanta
1 minute ago
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
LS – Occupy Atlanta
A bunch of cars passed honking their horns in support.
Circle of the permanent occupiers is forming.
The official curfew time has been reached. They are now in breach of the law.
Corporate media now leaving the park. Word to supporter (and live cam) to please leave the park.
garethfenley Gareth Fenley
Eviction: Police brass telling media to exit the park #occupyatlanta #ows curfew NOW. Everyone not getting arrested, leave the park now.
53 seconds ago
99Prcnt 99%
LIVE IN ATLANTA police on scene planning on arrests #occupyatlanta bit.ly/qeDNKe
#ows #occupywallstreet #occupyoakland #occupytv
2 minutes ago
http://www.livestream.com/occupytv
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Rumor is that police are saying they are going to move in without warning.
Chants of supporters outside the park are starting: “Banks got bailed out. We got sold out.”
KolaShangOne Kolade Abisoye I.
“@English103: Police about to start arresting protestors who are refusing to leave #occupyatlanta . #solidarity”
1 minute ago
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Billy Goat Gruff
Bridge_Troll Billy Goat Gruff
#Occupyatlanta facing imminent eviction. Call the mayor at 404.330.6100 and tell him you support the occupiers. #occupywallstreet #ows
2 minutes ago
garethfenley Gareth Fenley
Chanting at #OccupyAtlanta: Corporate rules we deny, we the people occupy. 7 minutes past curfew in Woodruff Park. #ows
1 minute ago
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Live cam out on sidewalk. The crowd is bunched up.
Someone just told their mom that they are not getting arrested tonight. But “it’s gonna be awesome”.
Trying to get the tents out of the park quickly to prevent them from being stolen.
OccupyArrests Occupy Arrests
NOW Police arresting #occupiers at #occupywocester unknown number of #occupyarrests PLEASE RT #ows #oo #BankTranferDay #occupywallst
1 minute ago
DryerBuzz Y. Lattimore
to the streets they are saying now #occupyAtlanta. Peachtree occupied
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Melissa Allen Heath
melisheath Melissa Allen Heath
#OccupyAtlanta CALL Mayor Reed 404-330-6100. ATL City Council 404-330-6030 Pres Mitchell 404-330-6052 ATL Police Public Affairs 404-546-6873
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shauna stuart
ShaunaReporter shauna stuart
looks like people are leaving #woodruffPark en mass. #occupyAtlanta – ##occupyatlanta live on livestream.com/occupyatlanta
2 minutes ago
Neither one of my LSs for Tulsa is working. Do you have any links?
OWSAtlanta Occupy Atlanta
livestream.com/occupyatlanta
about 3 planned arrests on way. we’ve closed down ptree st. @OccupyArrests @GlobalRevLive
1 minute ago
LS – Occupy Atlanta
A sizable group is in Peachtree Street at the north end of the park. From one side of the street to the other.
melisheath Melissa Allen Heath
more than 520 viewers of livestream of #OccupyAtlanta in park awaiting imminent arrest. @KasimReed the world is watching!
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the travhatter
travhatter the travhatter
#occupyatlanta #occupyatl folks left the park… report of only about a dozen folks left in the park and one in the tree…
1 minute ago
garethfenley Gareth Fenley
#OccupyAtlanta people who have emptied out of the park are marching downtown. Tamborines. “They say cut back, we say fight back.” #ows
1 minute ago
They have several different UStream accounts and tweet the one that goes live through @OccupyTulsa.
KitLewis KitLewis
Just saw the Paddywagons pull into the cut, behind the Suntrust building. Protestors still chanting in front of the park. #OccupyAtlanta
1 minute ago
Gracias.
LS – Atlanta
Offline at the moment
atlveg Elena
Motorcycle contingent just arrived. Helicopters are back. #occupyatlanta #ows pic.twitter.com/hE0dnxTT
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So the Bay $treet Media
Bell Canadanever cared a whit about this young woman until she died? This is the stuff that motivated Dickens to write his books. I light a candle for her. #OccupyBayStreet!KitLewis KitLewis
Party Crashers. #OccupyAtlanta twitvid.com/KXNLS
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http://www.twitvid.com/KXNLS
Leoslaire Leo McDevitt
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@kgosztola Sounds like #OccupyAtlanta is about to get raided
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they know we out here at least in general…
KitLewis KitLewis
Occupies stopped chanting… Helicopter searchlight sweeping the park. APD still along the perimeter.. #OccupyAtlanta
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tolstoyscat Occupy Everywhere
Live feed for #OccupyAtlanta police are currently preparing for a confrontation. 11alive.com/video/default.…
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http://www.11alive.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=75564425001
local TV station
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Briefly showed arrests up close and then dropped.
Came up with horse units in Peachtree Street and said that riot police are on the way.
cprater Cheryl Prater
RT @BarackFoxworthy: Officer barrels motorcycle through crowd at #occupyatlanta. Scuffle ensues.
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Gareth Fenley
garethfenley Gareth Fenley
Live feed 11alive.com/video/live/def…
is up. #occupyatlanta #ows Lots of yelling
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erickbrockway Erick Brockway
RT @BreakingNews: 11Alive feed shows police in riot gear lining up to face off with #OccupyAtlanta protesters on.11alive.com/rNVrvm
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DanRiehl
DanRiehl DanRiehl
RT @cprater: RT @garethfenley: Crowds of police in full riot gear moving in #occupyatlanta #ows
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Don Landy
DonLandy Don Landy
RT @OWSAtlanta Whose Streets? Our Streets! #occupyatlanta //. Who’s Jail? Your JAIL!!
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Charles Lindberg
CharleyAnon Charles Lindberg
Young man hit by moto cop at #OccupyAtlanta. Arrested after.
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LS – Occupy Atlanta
A unit of 100 or so riot squad APD marching through. Then goes offline again.
Occupy_USA OccupyUSA
#OWS Occupy Wall Street Ad to Begin Airing on TV This Weekend: The first Occupy Wall Street commercia… bit.ly/swXrgx
#OccupyUSA
5 minutes ago
I want to see a one month debt strike. No payments of any kind of debt, loan, basically anything that accrues interest. This would be medical debt, school loans, mortgages, credit cards, car loans, furniture loans, etc.
I mean, nobody’s going to repossess, foreclose or send out collectors based on one month of skipped payments. And, if hundreds of thousands or a million people participated, there wouldn’t be any response the creditors could reasonably engineer.
We too often act as though the creditors are all powerful when in reality it is the DEBTORS who hold all the power. They depend our fear of them and the almighty FICO, our conformity, our desire to not make waves and our sense of obligation to comply with the rules they have made.
Screw them and their rules. A debt strike for one month would help to pull the power back to the people where it truly resides.
RevolutionChan Revolut Ionary
Storm troopers & mounted imperial troopers, I mean the #POLICESTATE, are surrounding #OccupyAtlanta bit.ly/tLyvIV
#OccupySeattle #OWS
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OccupyLouisville
anonTheVille OccupyLouisville
RT @BreakingNews: 11Alive feed shows police in riot gear lining up to face off with #OccupyAtlanta on.11alive.com/rNVrvm
#OccupyLouisville
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Keri
BlameEva Keri
We do not live in a military state. Why do we need SWAT at a peaceful protest??? #occupyatlanta
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Sheryl
sav01 Sheryl
RT @kimberlyhaney: RT @joethepeacock: SWAT team is now moving into #OccupyAtlanta crowd… Things might not be as peaceful this time around
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http://www.11alive.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=75564425001
local TV station
TarheelDem – Kevin just tweeted
Alternate feed for you.
Kaymee Kaymee
This camera is down #OccupyAtlanta. Switching to globalrevolution.tv
- ##occupyatlanta live on livestream.com/occupyatlanta
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http://globalrevolution.tv/
TheOther99 TheOther99
Report: Legal observer at #OccupyWorcester among the 20 arrested tonight. Protesters now at police station.. #OWS #OO pic.twitter.com/PmP65AjU
3 minutes ago
Scott Walker being interrupted by the MIC check made my night! We should continue to use this tool to fight against politians when they start talking out of their asses at public events. They used to have the microphone and PA BUT OUR COMBINED VOICES ARE LOUDER!
99Prcnt 99%
LIVE FEED BACK IN ATL #occupyatlanta #occupyatl ww.livestream.com/occupytv #anonops #occupynetwork #ows #occupyamerica #occupy_USA
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http://www.livestream.com/occupytv
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Still two people in the park but the police are on the streets and not arresting folks in the parks.
Police tried to order live cam into streets. He refused. They told him to go the other way. But riot police blocked that way. Catch 22.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Officer at head of riot squad in formation begins to tell the crowd that they “are in violation of” Crowd told him to turn his mic on.
Police just aggressively arrested a photographer who was photographing them from the street.
No news or livestream for Tulsa yet. OccupyTulsa and others are tweeting a lot about other things, but no mention of impending arrests.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
One guy standing in middle of street with raised fist, waiting for arrest.
flossofer Brian J. Scott
#OccupyAtlanta Police on horseback, riot police in front of sign quoting the First Amendment. Arrests happening.
2 minutes ago
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Five people in middle of street are in standoff with riot squad.
Look for them in about 14 minutes.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Riot squad breaks, sprints to arrest someone.
wcdarling Wendy Darling
Helicopter just swept over with a searchlight. Lit up my block. #OccupyAtlanta
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asad
kebabtraume asad
just heard on the #occupyatlanta live-stream: ‘who would jesus arrest?’
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David Zomb
TheZOMB David Zomb
Atlanta Police are arresting photographers at #OccupyAtlanta livestream.com/occupyatlanta
#OWS
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LS – Occupy Atlanta
APD presses the guy’s face into the pavement.
getting a lot of lag on my end so slow to post bear with me
LS – Occupy Atlanta
The APD finally got around to arresting the people in the park.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Live cam – “They brought in the bus for maybe 10 people?”
Lots of bravery in Atlanta tonight. Occupiers are in the right. And a just cause is worth the struggle and dangers. The cops brutality only galvanizes public support. We , everyone, must continue this narrative with every person we encounter in our day to day lives. Don’t let corp media propangandize these occupiers.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
About 1000 viewers
In the park until 11pm; everyone but 3 people left the park and took to the streets in an unpermitted march. This brought out a large motorcycle contingent, horses, riot squad and SWAT team, all watched by a helicopter.
sorry firefox taking 99% CPU error have to reboot here
LS – Occupy Atlanta
One police officer on motorcycle ran over a guy. They arrested the guy in an aggressive manner. Which riled up the crowd.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
An occupier brought out her mom tonight. Her mom is appalled at the police behavior and says that it is not the job of the police to attack the people they are supposed to serve and protect just because a senior officer orders them to.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
“Police parade going down Peachtree Street”
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Live cam operator – Hums the Storm Trooper theme from Star Wars and gives a few Darth Vader breath noises.
Three arrests made in the park.
guess I’ll call it a night then; remember to set clocks back for those going back to Standard Time
Just got off the phone with a couple guys at OccupyAustin HQ. Putting together their needs for winter. I <3 the Revolution.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Police occupy the street. Protesters occupy the sidewalks. Things have calmed down just slightly.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Uniformed police march off. Riot police still there in formation.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
APD riot squad looks like they bought their gear from a Japanese supplier. Turtle armor.
Time to …
Please tell the Mayor and the City Council what you think of this (handy look-up reference for the following at “List of Council Members” here at http://citycouncil.atlantaga.gov/CONTACTS.HTM ) NYPD-type use of police in Atlanta, GA–
Mayor Kasim Reed:
mayorreed at atlantaga . gov (404) 330-6100.
Atlanta City Council
atlantacouncil at atlantaga . gov (404) 330-6030
President: Ceasar C. Mitchell
ccmitchell at atlantaga . gov (404) 330-6052
FAX: (404) 739-9118
+3k viewers across the Global Revolution & Occupy Atlanta live streams now.
On a personal note, my wife is assisting the legal team from Occupy Austin in spreading information to the legal teams at all occupations nationwide. Right now. Occupy Austin has a number of resources that have volunteered national assistance and she’s part of the team spreading the word.
This is the lady who’s always looked at my hippie views as extreme.
She saw those young ladies in New York City pepper-sprayed in September and her world changed.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Uniformed police march back in formation. Riot squad parts to let them get up street.
Motorcycle unit blocking Peachtree Street north. Riot squad blocking Peachtree Street south from park. Fulton County Sheriff’s bus parked at north end of park.
Riot squad now marching down street.
LS – Tulsa
Nobody was arrested tonight. 6-7 were taken into custody and received citations.
Atlanta Police Department riot squad/SWAT team
How awesomely charming was Occupy Tulsa tonight? Did they sing the national anthem and Solidarity Forever?
LS – Tulsa
Police have fallen back from grass area in the park to cheers and applause from protestors. Protestors sticking to sidewalk for the time being.
Livestream has only been up for about 5 minutes or so.
The operator is currently describing police as “functionaries” who just animate their suits.
If it’s like last night, the police will hang around until midnight or so
LS – Tulsa
Police have left. No police presence at this time.
Occupiers are upbeat and talkative. Interviews going on right now.
Occupy Mayors List
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Police are still lining the streets.
Re Orlando, FL– could use eyeballs on the live stream ( http://livestream.com/occupy_orlando ) of senator Beth Johnson Park now:
95 LS viewers now.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Automobile traffic moving on the Peachtree Street again.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Pan shows two NLG observers standing behind the banner that says: “This is our permit. First Amendment” … and text of First Amendment.
Checking out the Fulton County Sheriff’s prisoner transport bus. Seems to be empty. People arrested must have been taken away in a van.
City staff now cleaning the horseshit from the mounted units off the streets.
LS – Occupy Atlanta
Police K-9 units are doing a sniff search of the park.
Tulsa seems to be done safe for the night.
Atlanta Police Department on parade
Atlanta seems to be winding down. Wow, what a waste of taxpayer dollars to create the appearance of mayhem.
Calling it a night. Thanks KrisAinTX for covering Tulsa.
Not sure if I posted it here, but I saw earlier that the average arrest in the US costs $6,425. We’ve spent over $21 million arresting Occupiers so far. Not counting the cost of overtime and borrowing resources from other departments, etc.
http://occupyolympia.org/you-wont-see-this-anywhere-else/
I’m calling it a night too, folks. Going to help man the phones with my wife. Apparently Occupy Austin has a line on free Radio Stations for Occupations
We’re reaching out to media teams across the country.
@ KrisAinTx, TarheelDem and all helping out: Thank you to you and your lovely families as they are also supporting you in all that you do. Rest is necessary! Niters!!
Well, you could be right that the banks don’t care about losing these accounts, but then that’s even more reason to move your money. Why would a person want to continue to do business with a company that doesn’t value him or her as a customer? As long as society offers an alternative like credit unions,(which are very receptive to new customers), people will gravitate that way.
Motorcycle cop runs over Atlanta Protesters
Jane Hamsher, this one’s for you:
Occupy Alabama roundup:
UTV44: Occupy Mobile Protestors Camp Out
Fox10TV: Occupy Mobile protesters set up tents
Local15TV: Occupy Mobile to Set up Camp at Spanish Plaza
WSFA: The national “Make Wall Street Pay” protest comes to Montgomery (Notice no mention of Occupy Wall Street or Occupy Montgomery)
Occupy Arkansas roundup:
Heather Crawford, KATV: Occupy LR Protestors March Downtown
Out of a three paragraph story, this:
AP: Occupy Little Rock protesters march downtown, encourage people to switch to credit unions
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Occupy LR marches for ‘Bank Transfer Day’
L. Lamor Williams, NWAonline.com: Second Occupy march in Little Rock targets banks
Arkansas Matters: “Occupy” Movement Urges Withdrawal From Major Banks
I’m sure FDL will be streaming. I’m looking forward to it.
Have you seen anything on Occupy Fresno (CA) being broken up early this AM? I saw 1 tweet about 2 hours ago but haven’t been able to find anything.
Or it should be read…
Occupy Florida roundup:
BayNews9: Occupy Tampa protest may relocate
Rhonda Parker, St. Augustine Politics Examiner: Occupy St. Augustine: HUGE Turn Out In America’s Oldest City
WTSP: Bay area protestors fed up with big banks (Occupy Tampa, Occupy Sarasota)
Janelle Irwin, WMNF: St. Pete protesters tell motorists to move their money out of big banks (Occupy St. Petersburg)
Highlands Today: Occupy movement losing steam due to lack of Plan B
The money quote:
Matthew Hendley, Broward-Palm Beach New Times: Patrick Murphy: “I Am Proud to Stand With the 99%” (Election catnip)
Andrew Smith, The Independent Florida Alligator op-ed: Politicians altering Occupy dialogue (Regulatory capture the issues, police brutality a distracting tactic on part of PtB)
Jared Goyette, Miami Herald: Occupy Miami protests the Miami Art Institute (Student loan scamming)
Mary Beth Wilson, NBC Miami: Occupy Miami Holds Rally at Miami International Art Institute
Mark Jenkins, 13News: Occupy Orlando takes protest back to City Hall
Jon Busdeker, Orlando Sentinel: Occupy Orlando marches again
WESH: Occupy Orlando Marches Through Downtown
John Rogers, WALA: Occupy movement continues at city hall (Occupy Pensacola)
Ross Calloway, The Lunch Counter: Occupy Pensacola, Vandalism
Marisa Kendall, News-Press: Occupy Fort Myers group holds food drive and march downtown
NBC2: ‘Occupy’ movement hits downtown Naples
WFTX: Occupy Naples rallies Saturday
Sabina Bhasin, Naples News: Numbers drop for second Occupy Naples rally, protesters demand to be heard – PHOTOS
Steve Patterson, Florida Times-Union: Occupy Jacksonville backers start City Hall demonstration
Gary Stein, Sun-Sentinel columnist: Could tea party, Occupy co-exist?
Floreeda was busy yesterday. Where was the love
The Orlando Sentinel has a good video mashup of yesterday’s march. A friend I went with is actually in it, as is the top of my head. The older guy they show singing, wearing a toboggan, who sings at the end of the vid, is actually that good. When I saw him in the park beforehand, I thought he was good. When I saw him standing on a street corner, as the marchers went by, I thought he had to have speakers hiding in his coat pocket. No one standing on a street corner, playing a guitar, could possibly sing that well. He is just that good.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/videogallery/65895690/News/Occupy-Orlando-holds-second-downtown-march#gl-0
The next march is the 25th to protest black Friday.
Occupy Georgia roundup:
Chris Quinn, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Occupy Atlanta | Police halt midnight march
Jennifer Leslie, 11Alive: Occupy Atlanta, police face off on Peachtree Street
Faith Karimi, CNN: Police in riot gear converge on Atlanta protesters; 19 arrested
Chris Shaw, MyFoxAtlanta: Will Occupy Atlanta “Retake” Woodruff Park?
Kate Brumback, CBSAtlanta: Police arrest more Occupy Atlanta protesters
Jean Ross, WAOK: Takeover at Suntrust Bank
Jim Mustian, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: Occupy Columbus (GA) protesters descend on downtown banks
I’m using the Google. If you have links to other media coverage (not everything gets covered, some strangely so), put them up. The roundups are primarily media-covered events and some local blog activity.
It sure looked like the media were going out of their way not to cover Occupy Tampa.
Awesome in the city!
Awesomnicity!
Hmm! Lemme guess. The police were more interested in the marchers than the dudes parked at the ATM machines.
What a hoot!
I couldn’t find any links that you haven’t already put up. It’s rather ironic that the newspaper has a nice video mashup but the local news has no video and they were all there. I personally turned around at one point to find a Fox camera in my face.
Occupy Kentucky roundup:
LEX18: Occupy Lexington Protestors Make Demands
Ryan Dearbone, WTVQ: Occupy Lexington Wants To Move State Money
Fresh Post Above.
Occupy Louisiana roundup:
Billy Sothern, Gambit-the Best of New Orleans: Perspective: Occupy New Orleans
First Unitarian Univeralist Church of New Orleans: Occupy NOLA the topic of Gillespie Breakfast, Nov. 12. 2011
The Advocate: Occupy aims at ‘greed’ in BR
Occupy Mississippi roundup:
Kourtney Paige, Fox40: Occupy Mississippi 3 Weeks Later
Occupy Tulsa issue call to the Rainbow Family
Occupy Kentucky supported this yesterday:
Invest in Kentucky
Occupy Atlanta: Atlanta Policeman Drives Motorcyle Into Crowd
Occupy Harrisonburg (VA): Action Report on Bank Transfer Day
Occupy North Carolina roundup:
Lana Douglas, News and Observer: Occupiers refortify camp (Occupy Chapel Hill-Carrboro)
Gary D. Robertson, WRAL: Costs to NC cities mount for Occupy protests
Mark Schultz, The Durham News: Occupy Durham rally encourages shift to local banks, credit unions
Beth Velliquette, Herald-Sun: Locals Encourage People to Move Their Money (Occupy Durham)
Occupy Oklahoma roundup:
KOKH: Occupy OKC members remember “The Poet”
Nick DeMoss, Sand Springs Leader: ‘Occupy Tulsa’ includes Sand Springs members
David Harper, Tulsa World: Occupy Tulsa holds Saturday rally at 71st and Memorial
Russell Mills, KRMG: Occupy Tulsa members accept citations in lieu of jail time
JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, KTVU: Tulsa police arrest 13 Occupy protesters in park
Russell Mills, KRMG: Two Occupy Tulsa protesters go to jail for the weekend
Russell Mills, KRMG: Third night of arrests as Occupy Tulsa movement stands its ground
Occupy South Carolina roundup:
The Post and Courier: PHOTO: Occupy charleston
Interesting. No mention of Occupy Columbia’s march yesterday.
Occupy Tennessee roundup:
Brandon Gee, The Tennessean: Occupy Nashville protesters find their legal hero
Charles Sisk, The Tennessean: Unclear goals may quell Occupy protests
Pierce Greenberg, TheCityPaper: What happens with charges in wake of Occupy Nashville arrests remains in question
Jeff Woods, Nashville Scene: Occupy Nashville Flexes Muscles, Pesters NES
Naomi Jagoda and Andrew Pantazi, Times-Free Press: Occupy Chattanooga members not breaking law, officials say
WCYB: Occupy Protesters Set Up Camp (Occupy Johnson City)
Amanda Marsh, Johnson City Press: Occupy Johnson City continues campout; plans weekly marches
Marie Kemph, Murfreesboro Post: Occupy rallies on Square (Occupy Murfreesboro)
WGNS: Occupy Murfreesboro on M’boro Square – Pictures, Sound, and Video
Occupy Texas roundup:
Sebastian Robertson, YNN: Occupy Austin marches to Wells Fargo for Bank Transfer Day
11-5 #occupyaustin flash mob on 6th St., Downtown Austin
Patrick George, The Statesman: City: Arrested Occupy Austin protesters might return after review
MORGAN CHESKY, KVUE: Hundreds march for National Bank Transfer Day
KXAN: Austinites transfer to credit unions
Frank Heinz, NBC DFW: 8 Arrested in Occupy Dallas Bank of America Protest
Anna Merlan, Dallas Observer: City, Occupy Dallas at Odds Over Who Began Melee That Ended With Eight Arrested
MATTHEW HAAG and ROY APPLETON, The Dallas News (subscription): Occupy Dallas protesters arrested in downtown bank demonstrations
Bud Gillett & Jack Fink, CBS DFW: CPS Seizes Baby From ‘Occupy Dallas’ Site
Demotix: Occupy Dallas protesters arrested
MONIKA DIAZ and JONATHAN BETZ, WFAA: Eight arrests at Dallas bank protest
Daniel Novick, KDAF: North Texans Take Part In Bank Transfer Day
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, Denton Record-Chronicle: Occupy Denton picks new site to camp out
Adam Bennett, MyHighPlains: Occupy Amarillo Protests
MySA: Occupy S.A. protesters tie the knot
Jessica Kwong, Express-News: Occupiers rally against banks
I’d close it out. Otherwise they’ll start charging you a bank fee on top of the overdraw. If you need a little money to get out of it, try Prosper.com, peer to peer lending and see if you can borrow a bit from there.