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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 05:34 AM Original message |
BREAKING: New York City's deputy mayor says cleaning of protest encampment has been postponed |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 05:35 AM Response to Original message |
1. Well. Fancy that. |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:48 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. And the 240,000 signatories |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 11:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
45. OWS reports 300,000 signatures AND support world wide: |
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PatrynXX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 01:25 PM Response to Reply #14 |
51. did that |
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Graybeard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 05:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. Eyeball to eyeball and Bloomberg blinked. |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 09:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
32. This is really, really good |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 11:18 AM Response to Reply #2 |
41. Actually, he fled, out the back of a restaurant, when the crowd came to see him! |
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stlsaxman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 05:39 AM Response to Original message |
3. Guess they didn't want to arrest 5000 people just a Lech Walesa arrived, huh? |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I would like to borrow that graphic. ... Mine seems soooo incomplete! |
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stlsaxman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:08 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. my graphc is your (and everyones) graphic! |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 05:41 AM Response to Original message |
4. !! I guess the crowd got too big. And the park got too clean.. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 11:20 AM Response to Reply #4 |
42. Did you see this great pic from early this am? |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 05:46 AM Response to Original message |
5. The crowd is chanting (very loudly!) "We are the 99%!" (VIDEO) |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
6. This is very good news. Every "postponement" is a victory. Too many |
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Starlight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
20. The rules aren't new; those are the same rules in effect at the park for ages. |
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a2liberal (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:50 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. I don't have firsthand experience but |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 12:40 AM Response to Reply #23 |
68. In the 1850's the rules allowed slavery |
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a2liberal (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 01:38 AM Response to Reply #68 |
71. Huh? |
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Starlight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:15 PM Response to Reply #23 |
73. Yes, I'm saying that is absolutely not true. Overnight camping was always prohibited. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 11:22 AM Response to Reply #20 |
43. I loved their response to the rules: This is an occupation, not a picnic! |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 05:56 AM Response to Original message |
7. Excellent. So what's the next pretext for police violence? |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 05:56 AM Response to Original message |
8. More on story here: |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
9. GREAT NEWS!! |
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peace frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:01 AM Response to Original message |
10. Keep the pressure on, IT'S WORKING |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:04 AM Response to Original message |
11. Maybe Bloomberg can go clean Central Park since Zuccotti is spotless |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #11 |
34. Or a subway station which is dirtier than Zuccotti Park. NT |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:40 AM Response to Original message |
13. Asshole of the week - |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:54 AM Response to Reply #13 |
24. for delaying the "cleaning" ?? |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:56 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Of course not - for coming up with that ridiculous excuse in the first place. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 01:56 PM Response to Reply #24 |
54. OWS is cleaning up after themselves -- probably better than |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 11:17 AM Response to Reply #13 |
40. Yep. The Whole World Is Watching that 1% a$$hole of the... |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 06:59 AM Response to Original message |
15. They were afraid of media scrutiny. |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:08 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. "the whole world is watching." |
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David Sky (586 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:12 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. So many reporters, so many cell phones with cameras, so many |
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Starlight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:47 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. When it's so disgusting that the neighbors are complaining about the odor. |
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DLnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 09:00 AM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Well, I didn't find it that bad at all earlier this week, including |
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UnrepentantLiberal (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 09:21 AM Response to Reply #22 |
30. It didn't smell at all when I've been there. |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 10:58 AM Response to Reply #22 |
38. Been down there many times and it's always fine. There's almost no garbage. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #22 |
56. That's how the homeless in the 99% have to live all the time. |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 03:00 PM Response to Reply #22 |
60. I was there, and it was not. There was a smell of rotten pork though. |
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Dutchmaster (195 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 08:02 AM Response to Reply #15 |
26. I agree. I was just rolling out of bed here in the midwest to see what was going down . . . |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
19. i consider this |
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freeradicalm (88 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
21. This is GREAT news!!! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
27. The Elites lost their nerve. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
28. The city is regrouping. They don't have enough dump trucks for everyone. |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
31. The people have spoken |
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wial (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
33. crackdown and arrests in Denver last night |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
35. The park is in private ownership? |
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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 10:37 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. It's a strange combination |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 02:03 PM Response to Reply #36 |
57. There is some question as to whether the park was privatized |
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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. This is what I heard |
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Dont call me Shirley (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
37. The upper class must protect their false image at all cost. |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 12:06 PM Response to Reply #37 |
48. Never forget this: |
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unionworks (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
39. Bad News? |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 11:28 AM Response to Reply #39 |
44. Try this site for better information: |
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SoapBox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
46. Was that postponed until they can Storm Trooper their way in under the cover of darkness? |
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isuphighyeah (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 01:09 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. That's what I'm worried about. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. "I don't call them bankers... I call them 'French Revolution re-enactors.'" -- Andy Borowitz...n/t |
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Kurska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
47. THE WORLD IS WATCHING BLOOMBERG THE WORLD IS WATCHING. N/T |
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SemperEadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
52. OWS took away their reason for going in--they cleaned up behind themselves already |
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jimlup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
53. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!!!!!!!! |
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malthaussen (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 01:59 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. Actually |
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denese (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #55 |
59. the people have not been united |
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jimlup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 09:01 PM Response to Reply #55 |
66. But the point is rather straightforward actually |
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UrbScotty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
61. NYC Withdraws Cleaning Evacuation Order in Face of Defiant Occupy Wall Street Protesters |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 04:23 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. What happened to the so called 'violence' I saw trumpeted today? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 04:24 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. so much for the Tea Party meme about OWS not cleaning up after themselves... |
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kenfrequed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 04:24 PM Response to Reply #63 |
64. Hell yes! |
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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-14-11 07:43 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. C'mon! Whadja expect? |
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The Vrude (52 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
67. Fantastic news. |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
69. This means they'll come without warning late at night. |
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Kennah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
70. Bloomie had to first go clean out his undershorts, after he shit himself |
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99th_Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 04:16 AM Response to Original message |
72. Music to my hungry ears, water on my parched desert, |
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