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Occupy 6-Month Anniversary Protest Ends With Zuccotti Park Arrests

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NEW YORK — An Occupy Wall Street protester says police gave demonstrators little warning before kicking them out of a New York City park overnight and that officers beat several of them during the arrests.The protester, Chris Casuccio, was at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park on Saturday, where demonstrators chanted and held impromptu meetings to mark the six months since the movement against economic inequality.Police moved in around 11:30 p.m. Detective Brian Sessa says the protesters were arrested after they started breaking the park rules against setting up tents.Police say 73 people were detained. It was unclear how many were still in custody Sunday. Police say they have no information about whether protesters were beaten.Workers were hosing down the park Sunday as a handful of protesters watched from outside metal police barricades.


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Nope its not over yet. Not even close. This movement is just gearing up again. When spring comes back around i think something big will happen. The movement is planning a spring awakening..

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Yes, it's going to be a crazy spring and summer. I'm fine with protesting, I'm not fine with camping out in a public park indefinitely causing all sorts of problems from violence to sanitation problems.
 
great we get to hear more about people demanding 20 dollars an hour minimum wage and people trashing parks.
 
you know what's really ****ing sad?

I agree with many of the grievances of the Occupy Movement. I want the Glass-Steagall Act reinstated. I want more tax-brackets for the wealthy. I want the maximum tax bracket brought back to at least 38%. I want taxes on capital gains adjusted. I want it to be easier for folks to afford to be able to go to public colleges & universities. I want money out of politics.

but I no longer support OWS. and why not? because of their violent, disgraceful, disruptive, and unpatriotic actions during fall 2011. because some of their demands, are insane, greedy, and selfish. because not only do they refuse to come up with a platform, but they take pride in having no concrete platform or goals.

this makes them losers, a waste of the public's time, and one giant political tease.

this nation, needs a revolutionary social-democratic movement, that is NOT AFRAID to have goals that will be rejected by extremists. we need a movement that is willing to work with like-minded politicians.

and OWS? well they seem to be just a bunch of cowards, unwilling to stand up for something detailed & clear....out of fear that they might lose some supporters. they want to remain as vague, generalized, and non-commital as possible.

so **** them.
 
They had some policy complaints I could agree with. To bad the group and their supporters are to stupid to even understand who they should be protesting.
 
you know what's really ****ing sad?

I agree with many of the grievances of the Occupy Movement. I want the Glass-Steagall Act reinstated. I want more tax-brackets for the wealthy. I want the maximum tax bracket brought back to at least 38%. I want taxes on capital gains adjusted. I want it to be easier for folks to afford to be able to go to public colleges & universities. I want money out of politics.

but I no longer support OWS. and why not? because of their violent, disgraceful, disruptive, and unpatriotic actions during fall 2011. because some of their demands, are insane, greedy, and selfish. because not only do they refuse to come up with a platform, but they take pride in having no concrete platform or goals.

this makes them losers, a waste of the public's time, and one giant political tease.

this nation, needs a revolutionary social-democratic movement, that is NOT AFRAID to have goals that will be rejected by extremists. we need a movement that is willing to work with like-minded politicians.

and OWS? well they seem to be just a bunch of cowards, unwilling to stand up for something detailed & clear....out of fear that they might lose some supporters. they want to remain as vague, generalized, and non-commital as possible.

so **** them.

All i can say to you is maybe you should go to your local movement because it looks like you are falling for the painted image of the media, of flag burner, anarchists...
 
to protest for that long you got to be unemployed and not looking for a job.

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All i can say to you is maybe you should go to your local movement because it looks like you are falling for the painted image of the media, of flag burner, anarchists...

I live in NYC. Ive been to OWS events. I followed their main website daily. I spoke with participants & supporters daily.

I know what they are about, and its a ****ing joke and a tease.

They will accomplish nothing significant, other than bankrupting cities and giving cops lots of overtime pay.
 
I give the OWS a big whole, resounding, meh. There was certainly merit to some of their complaints (Then again, these complaints are nothing new, growing disparity of income and the like), but they lost their message and have become a burden to the tax payer, and to those who hold similar beliefs as them, giving the counter-point, conservatives, another sect of liberals to attack. IMHO, protesting is fine, but be responsible whilst doing it, this is my major complaint with the "movement" no central leadership, and a group who tends to muddy their points of protest.

So OWS, please stop, your only hurting your fellow liberal by protesting recklessly, and appearing bat**** crazy.
 
Now, can the Occupy Movement evolve into something constructive, meaningful, & powerful?

yes. but they have to decide to have a 10 point platform. They have to be willing to disallusion many of their current supporters, for the sake of standing up for something. they have to 100% commit to non-violent protest and inform the police on instigators who intend on being violent & destructive. they have to work with & support like-minded politicians & candidates.

they have to start pushing for legitislative change, and demanding specific pieces of legislation get passed.

this is how they will start getting major support from the American people. this is how they will become the left-wing version of the Tea Party.

or...they can continue their games, bull****, and violence...and become the laughing stock of political movements.

its their choice. if they REALLY want to represent the "99%"..the road is clear.
 
This movement is just gearing up again. When spring comes back around i think something big will happen. The movement is planning a spring awakening..

What gearing up or planning are you talking about?
 
Now, can the Occupy Movement evolve into something constructive, meaningful, & powerful?

yes. but they have to decide to have a 10 point platform. They have to be willing to disallusion many of their current supporters, for the sake of standing up for something. they have to 100% commit to non-violent protest and inform the police on instigators who intend on being violent & destructive. they have to work with & support like-minded politicians & candidates.

they have to start pushing for legitislative change, and demanding specific pieces of legislation get passed.

this is how they will start getting major support from the American people. this is how they will become the left-wing version of the Tea Party.

or...they can continue their games, bull****, and violence...and become the laughing stock of political movements.

its their choice. if they REALLY want to represent the "99%"..the road is clear.

The whole occupy movement is a leaderless movement. Anyone can be a part of it the right or the left. They have several main goals but much of the movement differs on many of the goals.
 
The whole occupy movement is a leaderless movement. Anyone can be a part of it the right or the left. They have several main goals but much of the movement differs on many of the goals.

yes, there are maybe 100 different Occupy groups.

they have no unity. which is partially why they are a joke.
 
All i can say to you is maybe you should go to your local movement because it looks like you are falling for the painted image of the media, of flag burner, anarchists...

It's a little hard distinguishing the Woodstock 1999 riots and the OWS. The biggest difference between Woodstock 1999 and the OWS is that the OWS have been much more destructive.
 
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Harnessing Public Discontent

"As Marc Dixon so succinctly puts it, Occupy “has got people talking about inequality.” Dixon, along with Elizabeth Cook, also point to the important influences that the movement has on its participants. The encampments are free spaces, where activists form close ties and discuss, deliberate, disagree, and decide the movement’s future direction.

Yvonne Yen Liu says in describing Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement that, “camp living has proved to be important preparation in transforming atomized individuals into collectively minded occupiers.” Social movement scholars would speak of these Occupy influences as political, cultural, and individual movement outcomes, and across the board there is obvious evidence of the Occupy movement’s wide-ranging impact. A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that two-thirds of Americans agree that “there are strong conflicts between the rich and poor” in this country. This is up from only 47 percent saying this just two years ago. The Occupy movement has been heard.

As Bill Gamson says, first and perhaps foremost, Occupy is about “cultural change.” And if the Tea Party movement was able to shape the national debate immediately after the financial collapse, the Occupy movement now has the stage to fundamentally shape the national political discourse as we head into a presidential election year, and this has the potential of having long-term and lasting effects."

Harnessing Public Discontent | Mobilizing Ideas
 
yes, there are maybe 100 different Occupy groups.

they have no unity. which is partially why they are a joke.

They have unity over several things reform campaign financing so that big business doesnt gain control over politicans, arrest the banking execs that lead to this melt down, and close corporate tax loopholes. What they disagree on are probably social programs etc.
 
but you forget tea partiers are all old people,they dont need jobs they have all day to yell at them crazy yunguns stepping on their lawn.

Still that pretty much voids the claim that the occupiers are jobless bums that are hippies that just wanna sit and smoke pot all day.
 
Still that pretty much voids the claim that the occupiers are jobless bums that are hippies that just wanna sit and smoke pot all day.

Can you imagine the outcry if people celled Tea Party Folk a bunch of hicks with guns?

Same Damn thing!
 
Still that pretty much voids the claim that the occupiers are jobless bums that are hippies that just wanna sit and smoke pot all day.

I considered the Tea Party fools until they were able to actually produce a platform, and they did. The OWS, by contrast, may sit and smoke pot a great deal of the time, but they also like to burn and break things, and do nothing in the way of policy. I think the claim about the OWS is rather close, it just avoids the most revolting part of the movement: its Luddite impulse.
 
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