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Loading...Occupy Wall Street Numbers Swell During Global Day Of Change
- by Beth Buczynski
- October 17, 2011
- 7:32 pm
While #OWS protests rippled through New York City, people all over the United States and the world were participating in their own Occupations as a show of solidarity with the Times Square demonstrators.
- Four hundred Iowans marched in Des Moines, Iowa Saturday as part of the international day of action.
- In the UK over 3,000 people attempted to occupy the London Stock Exchange.
- In South Africa, about 80 people gathered at the Johannesburg Securities Exchange, Talk Radio 702 reported.
- In Australia, about 800 people gathered in Sydney’s central business district, carrying cardboard banners and chanting “Human need, not corporate greed.”
- In Auckland, New Zealand’s biggest city, 3,000 people chanted and banged drums.
- In Sydney, about 2,000 people, including representatives of Aboriginal groups, communists and trade unionists, protested outside the central Reserve Bank of Australia.
- 5,000 people took to the streets in Chicago with chants of “People over Profits! Occupy Chicago!”
Despite police brutality in the days leading up to October 15th, Occupiers in Boston have started their own Kickstarter campaign to publish the Occupied Boston Globe, an internal newspaper for participants.
While much of the mainstream media still depicts the movement as scattered and aimless, there’s already evidence that the Occupy Wall Street protests are having a real impact on middle-class voters.
Although the Mayor attempted to evict Liberty Square residents just days ago, Bloomberg.com reports that 67 percent of New York City voters agree with OWS protesters’ views, according to a Quinnipiac University survey.
And the push for a higher tax on New Yorkers making more than $1 million a year is getting fresh life with a new poll showing overwhelming support. The Siena College poll found 72 percent of New York voters support the tax to avoid further budget cuts. Just 26 percent oppose the proposal by powerful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
So what’s next?
Rumor has it that the Occupy Wall Street protesters have outgrown Liberty Square and are thinking about overtaking a second location, the completely public Washington Square Park. Because Washington Square is managed by the City of New York, it has a strict “no overnight” rule. Ignoring this regulation would inevitably lead to clashes with NYPD–who showed up in riot gear to clear out the small group that tried to occupy Washington Square Park after the Times Square march after dark.
Related Reading:
Thousands Of Protesters Fill NYC’s Times Square
Occupy Edmonton: The Movement Spreads To Canada
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+ add your ownReminds me of the peaceful protests of the '60's.
Isn't FREE SPEECH a wonderful thing :)
This is the best political movement I have seen happening in my lifetime. It's really given me some hope. While I suspect that a large number of protesters are left leaning, I have seen interviews with Ron Paul supporters and those of more "central" leanings in interviews with the NYC protesters. And you just can't convince me that the hundreds protesting in IOWA are all radical lefties.
IMO, it's really important to understand this is not about "left" and "right" politics - it's not about reducing it to a familiar and tired playbook. It's about real change, not about tinkering around the edges. And it just starts with people saying "This is wrong" and continuing to say it, louder and louder, until the politicians and the wealthy 1% get scared of losing their jobs and start listening.
thanks for the up dated.
Yeah!! William K. So true and so well said.
This is so exciting - finally the people have awakened and they're really, really grumpy!
So long as no yobbos join the crowd & spoil it I hope it goes very well.
to Sandra M.-- You ARE there! Everyone who considers this issue and then posts is adding his or her spirit to this statement. THE MINORITY OF SOULLESS BEASTS WHO ARE ROBBING US OF OUR OWN PROPERTY MUST BE MADE TO FACE THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR THEFTS! If this means mass arrests, then so be it. WHERE IS OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT?
Wish I could be there!
Time for change has come.
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