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OWS to open second camp in NYC
Published: 14 December, 2011, 00:56
Edited: 14 December, 2011, 21:16
Community activists and over two hundred members of the Occupy Wall Street movement rally around a forclosed home during a march in the impoverished community of East New York to draw attention to foreclosed homes in the community. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
Demonstrations with the Occupy Wall Street movement are only days away from their next staged protest and hope to reestablish a presence in Manhattan with an even slated for this weekend.
To commemorate three months to the day since Occupy Wall Street began in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, protesters will march one mile north from the since-shut-down hub of the campaign in an attempt to claim a nearby greenery to further their movement.
Protesters aim to make Duarte Square at Canal and Varick streets in Manhattan their new home. With participants in this weekend’s festivities giving law enforcement fair warning of their intentions, however, the events that will unfold on Saturday stand to be as monumental as the other landmark days of the movement.
One month earlier, protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and across New York City to commemorate the anniversary of the movement. Other staged events, including the mass occupation of the city’s Times Square, yielded a police presence in the thousands and numerous arrests — some violent.
November 15’s events also included a temporary occupation of Duarte, but the property’s owners, Trinity Church, quickly kicked the protesters out. One month later, demonstrations say that they will attempt once more to occupy the space.
"We’ll make them decide whether they’re a real estate organization or a church, a place of sanctuary,” Occupy spokesman Patrick Bruner tells The Atlantic.
"Basically, the point is that, regardless of how Saturday turns out, we think the occupation of public space is an important stimulus for the movement, for spurring dialogue, and for keeping the issues in the public eye," Occupy organizer Mark Bray adds. In the one month since the last mass protest in New York, occupation encampments faced raids and crack-downs by law enforcement in cities far and wide, including major hubs such as San Francisco and Seattle. Only Tuesday morning saw the latest raid, this time causing a crack-down on the encampment in Baltimore, Maryland.
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You don’t need to be Christian, or even religious, to understand -and embrace- the idea that "Whatsoever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." But many of the 1%, in blind greed and endless schemes, have forgotten this. They have closed their eyes to what the word "society" should really mean, and what it can mean. But due to Occupy Wall Street, we are finally talking less about CUTS and more about BLEEDING. Instead of demanding m-o-r-e budget cuts -to be borne by the middle class and poor- we are FINALLY focusing on the shameful bleeding that the poor and middle class has endured, for all too long. Instead of talking about even m-o-r-e cuts in the taxes of millionaires....we are now talking about fairness and justice - about an economy and a political system that is increasingly run for the rich, and by the rich. Instead of talking about LESS government, we are talking about a government that WORKS FOR ALL OF US, not just a favored few. Thank you OWS, for reminding us that people -ordinary working people- really DO matter. The attempt by OWS to occupy Duarte Square (the empty lot owned by Trinity Church) is an attempt to carve out a protected space in a city where control-freaks would sweep us under the rug, and out of the way. In a city where they would pen us in, and try to permit us to death. In a city that tells us to “move on, move on”..... you don’t belong, you don’t count, you don’t have a right to be here...don’t assemble, don’t block the street, don’t trespass, don’t EXIST! They would deny us, deny our lives, deny our very futures. IF WE LET THEM. But OWS responds, both in word and in DEED: it says we’ve had ENOUGH - we BELONG, we STAND our ground, and we DO matter! This IS our land, and we want it BACK! The word OCCUPY...says it all! That’s why OWS has captured our imagination. That’s why a living breathing OCCUPIED public space is important for OWS- why it needs to have a concrete, persistent, in-your-face presence: to continually remind us of what we’ve lost, of what we are, and what we can be. Trinity Church, with its oft-proclaimed ideals (and its huge land holdings), should look deep into its collective soul, do the right thing, and help OWS secure a sanctuary. For the old ways are not working...