Police end Wall Street occupation– for now

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The Bloomberg administration cleared Zuccotti Park in New York this morning, arresting hundreds of participants in Occupy Wall Street, and filling Broadway (below). Photos from Patrick Markee.

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  1. Kathleen says:
    November 15, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    Mayor Bloomberg sent the police in to arrest and prosecute the wrong people. How far is Zucotti park from Wall Street? Clear who the police and Bloomberg are working for. How many of the bankers who brought the US economy to the brink have been arrested and prosecuted?

    Did I hear 0? Chris Matthews should make that is number tonight

    • Kathleen says:
      November 15, 2011 at 12:49 pm

      MRW linked this the other day. Clearest delivery. Professor William Black
      link to law2.umkc.edu Asking why no one has been prosecuted? Have heard this fellow before I believe on Democracy Now. Listen to the whole clip. This man should be at all the teach in’s. Clear and on target.

      Occupy LA Teach In William K Black
      link to youtube.com

      “Ok I am coming with a message of hope actually. In the savings and loan crisis which was one seventieth the size of this crisis. Our agency made over 10,ooo criminal referrals and that resulted in the conviction on felony grounds of over 1000 elites in what were designated as major cases”

      William Black “We can prosecute these frauds. The Federal Housing Finance Administration has just filed complaints saying 17 of the largest banks in America committed massive fraud. Endemic fraud.. And that there is a paper trail proving that they did so.”

      “Where is the Justice Dept?”

      BANKS IMMUNIZED FROM NOT ONLY BEING PROSECUTED BUT FROM BEING INVESTIGATED

      • MRW says:
        November 15, 2011 at 4:14 pm

        Kathleen,

        Here’s another Bill Black speech, this one before the House in 2008. You’ll enjoy it.

        “Bill Black’s eye-popping opening statement at House FinServ hearing on Lehman Bros. failure”
        link to youtube.com

        • Kathleen says:
          November 15, 2011 at 5:42 pm

          I love that man. Have heard him on the MSM several times, on Cspan and on I believe Democracy Now. Linked your link everywhere. He makes such strong, fact based statements. Palatable by a peasant (me) and I am sure many others. Clear concise… thanks for this link

          Investigate…arrest…prosecute. No one is above the law. Well we know they are but I still want to believe

      • MRW says:
        November 16, 2011 at 12:51 pm

        Kathleen and annie and PHIL (!)…frankly, every American who reads the NY, read this:
        link to nakedcapitalism.com

        Was the New York Times Embedded with the NY Police Department Prior to the #OWS Raid?
        A longstanding NC reader and lower Manhattan resident e-mailed me:

        I was curious about the first couple of pictures in this set from the NY Times. How were they able to get pictures of the NYPD gathering by South Street Seaport, before the raid? [...]

        This is from Yves Smith’s excellent Naked Capitalism financial blog (and a big fan of Bill Black, Kathleen). She has a huge readership. (On Glenn Greenwald’s blogroll)

        You oughta’ read the comments! The NYT has been outed.

  3. Kathleen says:
    November 15, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    Did you folks just change the face of Mondoweiss?

    Over at Huff Po
    link to huffingtonpost.com
    Zuccotti Park Eviction: Court Order Against City Says Protesters Can Return With Tents In Tow (VIDEOS)

    • eljay says:
      November 15, 2011 at 1:43 pm

      I like the new layout…except for the missing “Edit” button. :-)

      • MRW says:
        November 15, 2011 at 4:15 pm

        Eljay,

        Edit ain’t missing. It’s there after you hit Post Comment.

        • eljay says:
          November 15, 2011 at 6:07 pm

          >> Eljay,
          >> Edit ain’t missing. It’s there after you hit Post Comment.

          Thanks. I actually did notice that as soon as I posted my comment:
          >> I like the new layout…except for the missing “Edit” button. :-)

          So I actually edited my comment and added “Never mind!” and save the edited comment. For some reason, though, that change appears to have been dropped.

        • eljay says:
          November 15, 2011 at 6:20 pm

          >> So I actually edited my comment and added “Never mind!” and save the edited comment. For some reason, though, that change appears to have been dropped.

          Ooops, I just realized that that’s what I did with my post in the “Welcome to the new Mondoweiss” thread. My bad.

  4. Kathleen says:
    November 15, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    Democracy Now. Lots of Occupy Wall Street coverage (Zucotti Park)
    link to democracynow.org

  5. ramzijaber says:
    November 15, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    Disappointed. NYC, the city of the Statue of Liberty. France, the land of “liberté, égalité, fraternité”, made this gift that represents the Roman goddess of freedom, Libertas. On the tablet, “July 4, 1776″ is engraved. This is the symbol of freedom worldwide and the freedom of the United States. Mayor Bloomberg should visit the Statue of Liberty tomorrow and then support the demonstrators… as long as they are breaking no laws, and to my knowledge, they are not.

  6. Kathleen says:
    November 15, 2011 at 5:39 pm

    so protesters thrown out and then told they could go back in and now another judge says they are out

    this was when they were going back in
    link to documentcloud.org

  7. annie says:
    November 15, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    link to ustream.tv

    Occupy Wall Street General Assembly

    here’s the live stream

  8. annie says:
    November 15, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    here’s Greg Mitchell livestreaming @ liberty square in berkeley.

    scroll, he’s liveblogging too.

    link to thenation.com

  9. yourstruly says:
    November 15, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    might as well try to shut out the sun rather than waste tune on shutting down a popular movement whose time has come

  10. Kathleen says:
    November 15, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    455,ooo tuned in to live stream on Occupy Wall Stree. More people live streaming this than watching MSNBC. May be I can get Chris Matthews to put this up as his number for the evening. I have been successful with some suggestions.

  11. Les says:
    November 15, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    For those who wondered about the likelhood about Homeland Security, the FBI, and other federal police agencies role in these coordinated evictions, take a look at this from the Minneapolis Examiner

    link to examiner.com

  12. Justice Please says:
    November 16, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

    What’s so hard to understand, Barack? Or do you also think that the Constitution is just a piece of paper? Do you wipe your ass with it?

    The rule of law has ceased to rule the USA, if it ever has. Americans are living in a corporate dictatorship. Shut up and buy!

  13. Les says:
    November 16, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    8:43 PM – Today
    Lawyers File FOIA Demand #OWS Docs From Federal Agencies

    The Partnership for Civil Justice sent out a press release this evening announcing the Freedom of Information Act Request which focuses on confirming whether or not federal agencies coordinated the recent sweeps of various occupy encampments. It states:

    The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) and the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests today with the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Park Service (NPS) requesting that the agencies release information that they possess related to the involvement of federal agencies in the planning of a coordinated law enforcement crackdown that has taken places in multiple cities against the Occupy Movement in recent days and weeks.

    The FOIA to the various federal law enforcement agencies states: “This request specifically encompasses disclosure of any documents or information pertaining to federal coordination of, or advice or consultation regarding, the police response to the Occupy movement, protests or encampments.”

    The Occupy Movement has been confronted by a nearly simultaneous effort by local governments and local police agencies to evict and break up encampments in cities and towns throughout the country. It is now known that mayors and other local officials have met together on conference calls in recent weeks and developed a coordinated strategy to dislodge and break up the encampments using common talking points including a public pretextual rationale to justify police action.
    Mara Veheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice and the co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild’s National Mass Defense Committee, states: “The severe crackdown on the occupation movement appears to be part of a national strategy to crush the movement. This multi-jurisdictional coordination shows that the crackdown is supremely political.”

    link to huffingtonpost.com