As you may have heard, there are are plans, spearheaded by John Penley, for a peaceful demonstration starting with a picnic in the Park at noon today... Via Facebook, I asked Penley last night if the rally was still a go. "Hell yes."
He left this comment on the previous Occupation thread:
"People will be at the park at noon. Some will be leaving for Times Square and some will not. It is my understanding that Judith Malina and the Living Theater will lead a march from Times Square to Union Square and then on to Tompkins Square. Anyone who can bring food to share, drums, musical instruments, art supplies anything else you can think of to make this a fun and noisy but peaceful occupation."
Meanwhile, did you notice that park officials put up new signs around the Park pointing out the curfew...?
Previously on EV Grieve:
Occupy Tompkins Square Park (119 comments)
how an you call it a peaceful event when you are calling for folks to stay overnight in the park? - this is asking for trouble given the TSP history and the current police violence.
ReplyDeletethe occupy wall street people do not need a history lesson or replay of the violence in TSP.
John Penley has too much time on his hands. Even if the economy was in a boom he'd be protesting something.
ReplyDeleteI'm stopping by tonight, but will leave before midnight. No need to give cops an excuse to bust my head. Let's keep it peaceful, everybody.
ReplyDeleteThe protesters should follow the rules and leave the park at midnight. Occupy Wall Street does not need more bad PR, similar to news reports that are coming out of yesterday's clash. Peaceful and law-abiding: that's the right message for right now.
ReplyDeleteThis is ridiculous. We the community have worked very hard to keep relations smooth with the 9th Pct, and we have made alot of headway since the riots, now most of the cops in the 9th are more community oriented, they listen to us when we talk at the community council meetings, and in general are just freindly. I dont want to have this ruined by a bunch of "out of towners" who come to our park to protest . Stay out of our neighborhood. Go protest in your own hometown, or stay on "wall St" where your supposed to be. Keep your drug addict dirty smelly garbage. We have enought dirty smelly bums in the park. But those are OUR dirty smelly bums that we have come to know and love, we dont want yours. Freeloadin hippies!!
ReplyDeleteAs a supporter of OWS and a TSP neighbor, I agree with most of the above comments. Whatever energy might be put in to occupying Tompkins would be better spent occupying Wall St. and the related marches, protests, and whatnot. An overnight TSP protest says...says....nothing about Wall St. that I can think of. TSP has a proud and complex history related to political protest and I'd love to see the OWS guys have a general assembly meeting at TSP but I can't see how staying overnight says much of anything.
ReplyDeleteWe demand sweeping unspecified change!
ReplyDeleteall these anons should be knocked down a peg or two if they think the TSP is UES.
ReplyDeleteI went to Zuccotti Park with my friends today. Showing up at Tompkins sounded like a big fat waste of time. What's the deal with these ancillary protests? Go to where the action and the people are. Otherwise you are spinning your wheels.
ReplyDeleteHey anon 9:44. You're a liar and an idiot. Ancillary protests? Do you realize there are protests worldwide now? (I know they likely don't report this on ESPN.) This is from CNN tonight:
ReplyDelete(CNN) -- Thousands of people across the world railed against corporate power, grinding poverty and government cuts Saturday as the Occupy Wall Street movement spread to the streets of Europe, Asia and Australia -- and took a particularly violent turn in Rome.
Firefighters battled a blaze at an Interior Ministry building near Porta San Giovanni in Rome, the main gathering site of the Italian protesters taking part in the Occupy movement Saturday, said eyewitnesses who reported seeing a Molotov cocktail thrown near the building.
If you are in NYC and you can get to the main protest site please please please go. It is all about the cause and we are all in it together. Join us tonight, tomorrow, Monday and let's work together to make our voices heard. It isn't about name calling. It is about people coming together and trying to right the wrongs that are killing our economy and hurting our people. There is power in numbers. We need to be together and we need to watch out for each other so more people don't get hurt.
ReplyDeleteI believe what 9:44 meant was why split forces on a day when larger numbers at one site will present a stronger message. When I was at Times Square today I heard the TSP rally got postponed for just that reason. Makes sense to me.
ReplyDeletewho's that behind those FOSTER GRANTS ....kerspagd
ReplyDeleteI interpreted 9:44's comments the same way Street6 did. He was saying that people in the same city shouldn't splinter off into a bunch of small groups. They should band together. There is power in numbers. That makes sense to me. 9:58 is the idiot--he gets his news from CNN!
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