Spontaneous Protest Against Bush on NYC Streets

[NJCher]

Saw this about 20" ago on television (forgot what station as I was switching around). There were some protestors demonstrating against bush and his handling of the disaster in New Orleans. Soon they were joined by others (thus spontaneous). There were signs saying "the world can't wait" and people were also chanting this.

I was working and thought for sure I could come back to DU and see coverage of the protest but I haven't seen anything--thus I'm posting about it.

Also, the police were arresting protestors and trying to break up the crowd because there was no permit.

I got very excited when I saw this. To tell you the truth, I got tears in my eyes. I so wished that I could have been there. This is what needs to happen, everyone! Spontaneous protests breaking out on the streets EVERYWHERE!!!

A nationwide chant: OUT OF OFFICE, OUT OF OFFICE! BUSH OUT OF OFFICE NOW!!!




Cher

[nashville_brook]

1. right on!

[GeorgeBushytail]

37. Please come to DC early to help with Camp Katrina on The Mall

50,000 angry Katrina survivors camped on Bush's doorstep. In the seat of government and power.

Let's set it up before 9/11!

---

Help build Camp Katrina on The Mall!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4629758

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2059147

[calimary]

2. GREAT news!

Lord, I hope this happens all over the country.

Y'know something... there IS that big protest being organized in Washington on September 24th, I think, mainly anti-war. Whaddya suppose it'll have more than a few angry Katrina survivors in it?

Katrina Changed EVERYTHING.

[LeftCoast]

3. I'm so pissed off I feel like joining a spontaneous protest!

:grr:

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. OUT OF OFFICE, OUT OF OFFICE! BUSH OUT OF OFFICE NOW!!!

HELL YEAH!

[Lindsay]

5. That's how it starts -

people getting together.

Needing permits is bullshit. AMERICA IS A FREE SPEECH ZONE.

At least for a little while longer.

[Lars39]

6. Yes! I hoping this would happen.

We should have hit the streets days ago.

[brettdale]

7. Hopefully they will join the march on the 24th

Hopefully they will join the march on the 24th

[Gregorian]

8. Resign! Resign! Resign!

Spontaneous is good.

Damn, I wish I were in New York. Go, people. Go! We need this.

Resign! Resign! Resign!

[54anickel]

9. Would be a great way to spend Labor Day...n/t

[deutsey]

10. We need thousands of such flowers to bloom, n/t

[Generator]

11. New Yorkers know!

BTW-I like your bumpersticker! I have a "Save Tibet" one and was thinking I need a SAVE AMERICA one. Wish I was kidding.

[bliss_eternal]

12. If you haven't already pls. nominate this thread...

more need to see this.

Thank you NEW YORK CITY!!! I'm going to their board now...

Thank you to the OP for posting this!!

[jsamuel]

13. :) nom

[intheflow]

14. Nominated! Very important that this was in NYC.

New Yorkers know the truth first hand about Bush's policies and disaster (un)readiness. It's most significant that it's from NYC that the first report of a spontaneous protest emerged.

[tjdee]

15. Don't they remember 9/11? Terra! Terra!

Clearly these New Yorkers don't know what a good leader Bush is.

Interesting, huh?

[NYC]

32. You're right. We missed the part about Bush being a good leader.

:)

[Peace Patriot]

16. Thanks for the post! I'm a protester from way back (SF anti-Vietnam war,

1967, and L.A. Century City, 1968). And I believe in public protest when it is warranted--to educate, to pressure, and just to bear witness when outrages are committed. And I fully support street protests now. BUT, I gotta say, there is SOMETHING ELSE we really need to do, and that is throwing Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor,' so to speak (or a Louisiana levee will do), and going back to the OPEN counting of our votes, not this SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--so secret not even our elected secretaries of state are permitted to review it--controlled by Bushite corporations. I mean, come on! Are we nuts?

And any corrupt Dem election officials or other Dems who have permitted this INSANE conversion of our election system--and of course all Republican criminals--need to be removed from office, while we still have state/local power over election systems, and while ordinary people still have some influence in state/local venues. This is critically important if we ever want to get our democracy back, and be able to start electing people who have the public interest at heart. A must do!

Join your local election reform group, or form your own. For information and action ideas, see the "DU 2004 Election Results and Discussion Forum" at:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

[Spike from MN]

31. Amen to that. Once again Peace Patriot, you are right on! n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. NYC has already been through a major Bush FLOP

They know what's going on.

[undeterred]

18. There is a NY protest planned on September 11

Tell Everyone!

http://summeroftruth.org

[Extend a Hand]

19. worldcantwait.org

When I was in Crawford there was a group handing out info about
http://www.worldcantwait.org/

[omega minimo]

20. DEMAND CONGRESS MEMBERS ACT NOW

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4620024

[leeroysphitz]

21. Anyone from Detroit area want to do same thing tomorrow?

Let me know, I'm there.

[Ian David]

26. Boston on Wednesday? n/t

[Me.]

22. Local CBS Station

Channel 2. There's a good chance they'll show it again at 11, as they repeat stories.

[dxstone]

23. THIS is EXACTLY what it's going to take.

No more, no less.
We can't even wait for the 24th anymore; America is coming apart before our very eyes...
I hope tomorrow we see 20 such actions. And the next day, 100.
THAT'S what it's going to take.
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[Tom Joad]

24. World Can't Wait, drive out the Bush regime conference

This probably has to do with the conference desribed here:
http://rwor.org/a/013/world-cant-wait-organize.htm
The folks here are revolutionaries, and Maoists. I am not.

However, it certainly will have wide participation given the growing crisis in our nation, and the Democrat "leaders" who have shown remarkable backbone in standing against the wishes of the masses of people who want to stop the war, stop the packing of the supreme court, stop the torture... and so on. The revolutionaries really do stand in opposition to the things the Bush regime represents.

[POLEIS]

25. Here's something EVERYONE can do! NIMBY POPP!

It's about the Levees, stupid!
NIMBY POPP? Check it out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4627788&mesg_id=4634399

[newswolf56]

27. New York City is to the United States as Petrograd was...

to Czarist Russia: on the cutting edge of accessible information, it is therefore the political avant garde -- even after years of the methodical economic cleansing called "gentrification." These demonstrations will almost certainly be violently suppressed -- and if that happens, they will only grow larger as a consequence.

The spontaneous demonstrations that broke out in Manhattan to protest the 1970 Kent State massacre were huge. Initially most of the protesters were university students, but they were immediately reinforced by tens of thousands of enraged citizens who poured into the streets as the news of the killings spread -- the first and largest worker/student reactions in the United States. On the night of May 4, one such gathering completely filled Washington Square, and the collective anger was palpable. But John Lindsay was the mayor then, and -- recognizing that police brutality might inflame the protesters into open rebellion -- Lindsay wisely restrained the police, and the demonstration remained wholly peaceful.

I am an expatriate New Yorker -- driven out of the City long ago by its skyrocketing living costs -- but I remain fiercely proud of my City's radical history. Though from what I know of the present-day City administration, I would expect none of the rational mercy Lindsay showed 35 years ago.

Please, please keep posting information about this as it comes in. Indeed -- given my suspicion the mainstream media will heavily censor such developments -- New Yorkers posting on the Internet may be the only way we can stay informed of what is happening there.
can stay informed.

[upoceg]

30. i've posted a bit below.

I'll keep everything updated as i hear anything.

and thanks for the support for us in these streets. they can get mean.

(and,sadly, yes, are also too gentrified and expensive)

[young_at_heart]

28. It takes a village.......

[upoceg]

29. I wouldn't say it was entirely spontaneous

and this is a good thing. I became part of the march in the mid afternoon. It was put together by World Can't Wait (www.worldcantwait.org)It's my understanding that they're an offshoot of refuse and resist. At any rate, at about 3:30 yesterday afternoon, we were doing a small puppet protest rally in Washington Sq. Park and these guys came through, so we joined them.

They are focused on, everybody please join in with me in this chant,
GETTING BUSH OUT OF OFFICE NOW. A peaceful bunch but they know the game. I recognized many many people there from other marches. There was a good bit of independent press there, but as of now, i've found nothing posted.

For an impromptu march, they were very organized. It was a slow march that slowed traffic but did not impede it, but it was clear that this march would be noticed.

There were about 100 of us (conservatively).

Almost every horn honked was in support. It's the right tack they're taking, relief and rescue, not repression.

It took us about an hour to get the 10 blocks to Union square (normally about a 15 minute walk). The group grew a bit.

Here's where I could use DU's help, but also where I would like to clarify why we need to celebrate this march, but not forget the world around us.

As we approached Union Square, my friends and I with the puppet realized that we were about a half hour late for the culture jamming festival we're running (bad to not show up if you're the organizers), so I trade out my banner spot and we veer the puppet away from the march, which has just started for the first time all afternoon to be herded by the police. We loop the park to try to get people to join the march even though we have to go and as we begin our trek back downtown, a dozen (conservative estimate) cop cars, a couple of police trucks and the media swarm in.

Here's where I could use DU help. We had to be back, but it's my understanding that there were several arrests, but I can find nothing about this in any media, mainstream or indy. Apparently there were blurbs on local news, but i've not been able to verify any.

This was a small march , but one of the most invested that I've had the pleasure to be a part of. If anyone can find info on arrests at this, please post, and if i hear anything else, i'll do the same.

Check out the website, but I really do think that this is a handful of people that we'll be hearing more noise from, and I'd welcome it.

Jsut wanted to toss 2 cents of first hand experience in.

cheers

[donco6]

35. Thanks for the inside info.

I did not find any reports of arrests, but I only briefly searched. I'll try some other engines.

[randr]

33. Remember the "Get out of our house" mobs

following the 2001 election?
Payback Time!

[xchrom]

34. great work!

[Loge23]

36. exactly what we need!

True democracy in action!!
WAKE UP USA!

[Gabi Hayes]

38. evening

[bloom]

39. I'm happy to hear it... eom

:bounce:

[stevedeshazer]

40. Now that's an ad campaign that works for me!

:)