FIRST - The videos of police using brutal physical force and pepper spray against peaceful protestors do an incredible job displaying the brutality of the power structure. King, Gandhi, Abbey Hoffman and countless others who are / were professionals at non-violent action and peaceful provocation would absolutely be calling a press conference denouncing these actions and showing these videos at the press conference. This puts the police on the defensive.
SECOND - King and Gandhi were successful in part because they were experts at tactical non-violence. We can follow in their footsteps by blocking the entrances to Wall St. offices this week. As we know, police have set up what amounts to a Green Zone around Wall St. But the suits have to enter somewhere. They have to leave the public street and enter that Green Zone somewhere. That point where public meets private should be the very center of our focus for non-violent resistance and occupation. Even as the location of that intersection shifts, we can always identify it. By definition there must always be an entrance and that entrance should be our focus.
THIRD - OUR ONE DEMAND - We should make one single demand: "Shut Down Wall St." Why are we shutting down Wall St.? "Because Wall St. is hurting Americans, hurting citizens of the world and ruining our environment."
When they fail to shut down Wall St., we do it for them in a non-violent way using peaceful non-violent resistance. And when the press asks, why.... We answer "We shut down Wall St. for a day so America and the world could breathe for a day, be free of the plutocracy for a day, be free of the exploitation for a day, be free of the greed for a day. Many will ask "What good is a day?" and we'll answer: "You call it a day. We call it a pretty good start. If someone has their foot on your neck for years and years and you non-violently force that foot to be removed for a day, that allows you breathing room for all sorts of options.
FOURTH - HOW - To shut it down, we need human chains of 30, 50, 90, 150, 300 people linked together (think zip ties) blocking the various entrances. The police will find it almost impossible to deal with these human blockades. This will create the largest pedestrian traffic jam New York has ever seen and the people who have been trading on the world's misery for so long simply won't be able to get in to do it that day.
It will help if we don't go in as a march but instead go dark as regular old NYC pedestrians from all directions and then show up there at the same time. I am aware that now protestors have found access to a large cache of civilian clothes that will allow many of the new people arriving to blend in (suits, ties, the works). This new donation will make it much easier to blend in up until the point of protest. And it will also gum up the works even more, making it easier to shut down Wall St. because now the police can't tell who's who and they need to stop EVERYONE, even the suits. Their Green Zone will then break down.
FIFTH - THE RESULT - The result of this direct non-violent action, this just protest, is that the front page of newspapers around the world will show images peaceful American youth shutting down the financial district that has wrought so much destruction around the world for so long. They'll be inspired by the ingenuity, the success and the courage and the movement will grow EXPONENTIALLY.
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Incredible Speech By Wall Street Protester _End The Fed_ 2011.flvby easyriders14121,413 views
This is far from a peaceful protest. It's loud and disorderly. They're REALLY making America look bad. The thing to do during rough times is to innovate not irritate. I've never seen anything so ridiculous in my life. I'm glad this didn't get mainstream media coverage. Are these America's educated youth? If so, whoa! What's the demographic? From every video I've viewed these past few hours, the 'protesters' deserved worse than what they got. I'd be ashamed if I had a kid like that.
Blackperll66 1 day ago
@ayres390 I don't think that's the reason MOST people support the occupy movement, but I do agree there are those using this movement as a means to say that their debt is somehow unfair. I do think the Federal Reserve shouldn't have control over the printing of currency, and if they do - since they are a private corporation - that there should be legal alternatives to their form of currency. There are other ways to solve this problem.
anthonywilliams999 3 days ago
2:15 "get down before you get hurt".
anthonywilliams999 3 days ago
@TheLiquidBeats and this shows the intelligence of the 99%...i go to work everyday to pay for your decisions to take out loans you can't pay back...and you get angry because of the decisions you have made...take responsibility for your actions and stop blaming others for inability to find a job and be a productive part of society.
ayres390 3 days ago
Good job to the person operating the camera!! We need more of this footage!
StraitD2 4 days ago
we out number them
the jails cant hold us all
Cyanidekoolaid616 5 days ago
fight those cops
Cyanidekoolaid616 5 days ago
this is pathetic... do not let these ppl harm you.. why has this not turned bloody yet? just pathetic
pbrawdy 5 days ago
@ayres390 You brainwashed idiot, go and kill yourself!!!!!
TheLiquidBeats 6 days ago
look at these over privileged college kids causing so many problems...arrest them all!!!
ayres390 1 week ago 2