Michael Moore is with the protesters in Times Square and it looks like they might all get arrested.

@MMFlint Michael Moore
Now they've brought in the cops with the plastic ties (handcuffs). Thousands of citizens here. twitpic.com/70wp3h
11 minutes ago


Bill Maher is with the DC protesters today too.

MMFlint Michael Moore
More reinforcements have been called in. MorganStanley HQ across street. I'm moving to a safer spot. twitpic.com/70wx99
2 minutes ago

oh crap they've brought out the NYPD At-At

MMFlint Michael Moore
An extra from "The Empire Strikes Back" has shown up. Maybe I can get a better shot from up there. twitpic.com/70x0ou

Times they are a changin'...

NYmag is covering it with frequent updates

Update VI: New York's Alex Klein reports from Times Square: As officers on horseback pushed into the crowd at 46th and Broadway, two people were beaten, and one pinned and carried away. As crowds on the other side of the barricade pushed forward, a group of officers ran toward the divider with billie clubs. The crowd pushed backward and an older woman was knocked to the floor. She lay bleeding from a gash in her head, tended by four occupiers around her. "She's an 81-year old holocaust survivor," claimed Alan Roth, 50, who was holding a rag to her head. "They charged quickly toward the gate then this happened," he said. His denim jacket was stained with her blood. An officer standing next to her told me an ambulance was coming, but given the blockades, there is no way an ambulance could get through.

The occupation had been fairly low-key until the 6 o'clock arrival of police in riot gear, on horses, motorcycles, and with shields. An occupier Jason Saadiin, 31, said, "It was so pedestrian and boring until the police showed up." He was also at the scene and saw police pulling front-line protesters out of the crowd and beating them with batons, about 20 yards from where I was standing. "They embarrass themselves every time, they draw an invisible line through intimidation, and when people cross them, they hurt them."

and they are arresting people for lining up to close their CitiBank accounts. (new window)

The Tea Party rallies were in thousands of countries with billions of people. I have pics.

Yes, and on day one they upstaged american protesters.

/What America can do, Europe can do better.

Occupy Wall Street not violently anti-semitic but #1 with violent anti-semites...

/Socialists of a feather, flock together
//hot

It seems the revolution will be televised after all.

This is all fine and dandy but in less than a month, Americans won't give two shiats about it.

@MMFlint Michael Moore

ooo a hotdog vendor BRB

MayoSlather: Times they are a changin'...

Nope. OWS denies it is even "political." Either it is political, or it is irrelevant.

Maybe it's "apolitical" in the same way the Tea Party is "totally non-partisan."

Good thing I bought patchouli oil futures.

The largest protest ever conducted in the history of mankind occurred on February 15, 2003.

It's purpose? To prevent the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Look how well it worked.

Face it. Protests change nothing. Only sheer violence or real and imminent threat of violence can make our masters quake in their boots.

Hey, awesome, are any of them talking about issues including public debt, the number one threat to the US Economy?

No?

Oh, thanks squatters.

Great, now the whole world will stink like FleaBaggers.

These seem like mass versions of the "throw the hot dog at Tiger Williams" guy.

"Dude! We are doing something epic! We are so totally like those people in the Arab spring now! Get a pic of me "protesting" so I can put it on facebook!"

3 years since Obama got elected and not a single anti-war protest. Where were all the hippies? Now we know that they were just waiting for an excuse to get out onto the street to whine some more. Of course, they won't protest against a president who has received the most Wall st money, hired a bunch of wall street execs, and delivered $700 billion on a platter to the 'fat cats'. Ah, but protesting feels so good.

Never go full global.

Interesting how all those pictures of mayhem are from other countries. They really get carried away, don't they?
I didn't see where any violence was happening here in America. (Did I miss it?)

Thanks for the thread. I almost had to rejoin TF. Just in time.

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Occupy Wall Street not violently anti-semitic but #1 with violent anti-semites...

Set theory, how does it work?

Came for pictures of dirty hippies gettin beat, leaving disappointed...

That's right, Mods...go for the CLEVER headline...

James F. Campbell: The largest protest ever conducted in the history of mankind occurred on February 15, 2003.

It's purpose? To prevent the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Look how well it worked.

Face it. Protests change nothing. Only sheer violence or real and imminent threat of violence can make our masters quake in their boots.

What's maybe scariest is I don't detect any hint of snark in your post.

Smelly, homeless, aimless and unemployed hippies are worldwide. Shocking.

James F. Campbell: Face it. Protests change nothing. Only sheer violence or real and imminent threat of violence can make our masters quake in their boots.

And I'm not saying this is right. In a just world, protests would change thing. The voices of the common people would matter.

I'm saying that this is unfortunately how the people in power -- psychopaths and malevolent narcissists -- think: the only thing that can stop them is sheer, raw violence . . . because it's all they understand.

Hero Tag? Seriously, subby? For THIS?????



Oh, yeah, this douchenozzle is a hero, all right.

VvonderJesus: This is all fine and dandy but in less than a month, Americans won't give two shiats about it.

Yep.

We've got our Facebook, reality TV, McDonalds.

This whole thing smells like a bunch of first year PoliSci majors.

The acrid smell of the 1%'s fear is strong in the nostrils.

Funny to see all the GOPers complaining about the protesters. The teabaggers are so a grass roots movement when you don't include the Koch funding and Fox News grandstanding.

LoonieCobber: Hero Tag? Seriously, subby? For THIS?????

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Oh, yeah, this douchenozzle is a hero, all right.

What are you talking about? He looks like Jesus except one of his arms is higher.

Stoker: Interesting how all those pictures of mayhem are from other countries. They really get carried away, don't they?
I didn't see where any violence was happening here in America. (Did I miss it?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTdbTIE8lrU&feature=relmfu

@MMFlint Michael Moore

I can now see a Falafel cart, BRB

In history the ones sitting at home, making the laws always were suprised when the unwashed filth burst into their rooms and made them do "not so nice things" correct my grammer champ....

Fuggin Bizzy: There were no protests in, for example, the Arab world this year worthy of note prior to OWS "going global?"

Derp. Derpderp. First-world problems.

actually what they're talking about is that there are a bunch of solidarity protests going on in Europe and other places showing support for the OWS movement.
but go ahead and keep on believing whatever it is you want to believe.

Burn the whole farking thing to the ground.

Not only is this a completely emotionally driven, ill focused pity party but the Occupiers have also turn the "Hero" tag into a participation ribbon.