Eight arrested as third day of Wall Street 'Rage' protests clogs New York City sidewalks Read more:

[nadinbrzezinski]

Protesters complaining about the power of the financial industry staged noisy demonstrations that slowed pedestrian traffic on Wall Street for a third day on Monday, vowing to continue 'for as long as it takes' to achieve vague demands.

Up to 150 protesters near the New York Stock Exchange held up signs saying 'we must end corporate tyranny and corruption' and 'debt is slavery'. The protesters claimed up to 350 demonstrators had come and gone throughout the morning.

Police reported eight arrests - two for attempting to enter a Bank of America office on Saturday, when larger crowds amassed for a protest billed as a 'Day of Rage,' and six more on Monday. At least four on Monday were held for wearing masks, which is illegal for groups of two or more, police said.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039409/Eight-arrested-day-Wall-Street-Rage-protests-clogs-New-York-City-sidewalks.html#ixzz1YSgBDIji

[provis99]

1. 150? that's pathetic.

Why do they even bother? There are more people at your average NY deli at noon than at this "rally".

[Puregonzo1188]

2. Perhaps if you showed up there would be more?

[burrowowl]

3. K&R!!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I remember the early days of WI...

why do they bother?

:hi:

[malaise]

17. DIng ding we have a winner

Rec

[Harmony Blue]

43. You will eat your words in due time

All protests start off small and require a catalyst.

[ChandlerJr]

4. For the cripes sake

On a normal workday those sidewalks are clogged with people going to work. If they can't close the banks and shutdown the brokerages they're just going to be more of a laughing stock.

Somehow over 300,000 showed up at Woodstock NY without Tweeter, Facebook and I-Phones to spread the word. It's becoming embarrassing.

Maybe they should have invited Country Joe and the Fish. I have little hope for this younger generation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Question... when was Woodstock?

How long into the movement?

You think that many people showed up early on? If you do... well then.

[ChandlerJr]

7. There were people trying to climb the barricades the 1st day when the

tickets ran out, so ya they showed up and many were turned back on the highway by the cops because there was no room.

Sorry, the kids just don't have it.

[BloomTownie]

9. If only Hendrix, the Band and the Who show up...

I would be there too - or maybe some My Morning Jacket.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Try a few years earlier, like a decade earlier

that is what I am talking about.

[ChandlerJr]

14. Huh? 1959? What the bleep are you babbling about?

Woodstock was 1969, what the hell does a decade earlier have to do with it? A decade earlier was Elvis and the Everly Brothers.

Bye Bye Love
Goodbye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think imma gonna die.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. The social movement that led to woodstock

started around 1959... and it was VERY SMALL. THAT is the point I am making.

It started a little earlier actually with the Beatnicks.

Movements do not start or come fully form out of zeus's head. And in fact... Elvis was part of that slow beginning and was seen as horror of horors, a challenge to CONSERVATIVE America.

What you are seeing is the beginning of something... and laughing just because you have a few thousand there is just silly... as in very silly. It is also part of a GLOBAL movement. This is looking more and more like oh 1848 in some ways.

That is what I am talking about.

What I am talking about is part of historic cycles...

[JVS]

25. Woodstock '69 was for wimps. The 1999 crowd were the real rebels.

[Hissyspit]

36. They were showing up to see a CONCERT and do DRUGS.

Good grief.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

22. And they have little hope for you. The younger

generation is the future. They've figured out what took many
from an older generations decades to learn and apparently
many still are in their bubble.

[JVS]

24. Yeah, because getting arrested by the NYPD is as tempting as an all-star rock band lineup.

[Freddie Stubbs]

37. Protesting banks isn't as big is a draw as Jimi Hendrix and Sha-Na-Na

[fasttense]

39. I find it a laughing stock when someone sitting behind a keyboard

complains there aren't enough people out in the street at a protest.

Right now, there are RepubliCON, Koch-loving, Teabaggers getting paid to post on liberal websites derogatory comments about the protesters.

Woodstock was not a protest, it was a concert.

[BloomTownie]

8. I vote to ...

abandon the wall street protest and have a pride parade to welcome the president of Iran when he visits tomorrow!

[Systematic Chaos]

16. I don't know who you think you're fooling, but it isn't me.

:hi:

[BloomTownie]

18. You right - he isn't here until 22-Sept

http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30572248&SRCH=1

We shoudn't upset him while he is here either. there are more serious issues than what is going on in Iran.

Sorry - I'll play nice.

[annm4peace]

11. this is one of many actions.

Many people from outside of WI were in WI to protest. In fact I met 3 teachers from NY who used 1 week of their vacations to door knock for the Recall elections on Hudson, WI.

There is the big Oct 2011 protest occupation in DC coming up. There is the past protest a couple weeks ago of DC against the Keystone pipeline were over 1000 people had been arrested over a week period.

New people need to get out. Many of us have been protesting a least 1-2x a month. And having jobs and families to take care of.

I wish more people would come out to protest but many are just trying to survive.

Maybe if there is 1 or 2 protests a year there could be 100,000 people coming out but it seems like we have so many protests.

Check out some Peace and Social Justice calendars. Labor calendars Environmental Calendars and see if there are some events you can go to and or help organize and support.

Those of us who have been active for the 10 years are wearing down financially, physically and emotionally and I'm really tired of people complaining of how many people don't show up.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Yup

some of us do what we can from afar... pizza delivery will be in my list of things to do...

As well as marches et al locally

[sweetapogee]

32. I was down

in lower Manhattan yesterday afternoon, a few blocks from Wall St and the word on the street was there wasn't any more significant quantities of free pizza until next Saturday earliest and meager porta-potty privileges to boot. At least at Woodstock they had more than one porta potty. I did hand out a few small containers of hand sanitizer but actually the few people that (i assumed) were protesters thought I was nuts giving them away. I only had 3 to begin, with (sample size) and after offering them to about 10 people, stopped when one guy took two from me. Truthfully, I've been to a few protests but this seemed sort of mindless, realizing of course I was not in the thick of it but still, what I call "protest excitement" wasn't in the air. Like I said and keep in mind I was 3 blocks away from WS and in somewhat of a hurry. My clients didn't even know anything about the protest, they live in Westchester.

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. K&R!

[eppur_se_muova]

19. I wish this would end so the media would cover something else ...

I mean, it's been Wall Street protests 24/7 on every channel ... it's like there's nothing else going on anywhere in the media ...








:sarcasm: to the umpteenth power

[brooklynite]

20. Perhaps the media isn't covering this because there isn't anything to cover...

This is in its fourth day, and the "General Assemblies" have come up with nothing I can find that clearly defines what the issue is and what their solution demand is. All the meda has is a campout in Zuccoti Park (reported), a march/chant around Wall Street with vague anti-capitalist slogans (reported) and human-interest "pizza delivery" stories (reported). If the protestors want to generate news coverage, they need to create news.

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Perhaps they have not since they have not since the

1980s

Here is one that the media, the msm never covered



http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0425-01.htm

Now tell me, how many cameras will show up for a tea party "protest?"

People really need to buy a clue... the press has NEVER been on our side. why we need an ALTERNATE media...

[HappyMe]

40. I saw tons of coverage of the protest in WI. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. Tons... we were watching different media

and not in the beginning.

But having two shows mostly have GOOD coverage is not tons

[HappyMe]

42. Okay then.

:eyes:

[Modern_Matthew]

21. The fucking cynics here make it their full time job to rain on any and all parades...

Getting old.

[SpiralHawk]

26. Paid RepubliBagger SuckerPuppets (R) are a sad fact of life

as they work to undermine America and float false arguments hither and yon.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yiGfIm0Om-8/SutsXt1AZLI/AAAAAAAAAHI/_yvDh4vPoH8/s320/PHOTO+this_too_shall_pass.png

[WillyT]

31. It's A Long Hard Walk Up Those Stairs...

and out of their mothers basements.

Easier to be a Keyboard Commando. And criticize EVERYTHING...

:shrug:

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[kctim]

23. Waste of time

There are a thousand times more people who are concerned more about their 401k and investments, than there are who care one bit about the OPINIONS of these people.

IF these 'rage protests' ( :rofl: ) start affecting those, the protesters will go from sidshow to enemy real quick.

[marions ghost]

28. so what works then?

without better ideas your ridicule rings hollow.

[kctim]

29. Maybe something people actually care about?

Hell, a protest of a 150 people at every state capitol would have more of an effect than this joke.

[marions ghost]

30. So organize it

Get 150 people in every state to do a constant vigil. A protestor would stay for a day and agree to line up another person to take their place the next day (and so on...). Use the resources of ALL local liberal groups. Figure out ways to make it grow. To make any kind of a point this has to be an ongoing thing. One day rallies are easily ignored.

Can't you see all (basically liberal) protest efforts are connected?

I get inspired from anybody doing anything.

[kctim]

38. I don't agree with them so would be a pointless waste of my time

[blindpig]

27. Indignados.....

Ineffectos.

[WillyT]

34. Did You See This???

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1971506

[Zax2me]

35. Love that people are SPEAKIN OUT!

Hope protests continue daily.