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“Shortly before midnight, a group of officers began moving through [Zuccotti Park], inspecting bags, and shooing away the handful of protesters, some of whom scattered immediately rather than have their bags inspected. Asked what law they were breaking, Officer DiPace replied, “There’s a law against everything. That’s America.”
(via topherchris)
Hi. This me and my best friend coffee waiting for you guys to send me your beautiful and important Occupy photographs so that they can be published.* Send them to torierosedeghett@gmail.com. Check out the official call for submissions page and the amazing stuff I’ve already had the chance to collect!
*If you wanted to send me some cool Occupy artwork or Occupy video footage, I’m sure I’d think that was really cool, too.
Attn. Tumblr: Get those submissions in ASAP. That is all
In which a former intern does me proud.
Um, wasn’t there a court order allowing people back in to the park? What did I miss?
UPDATE: Oh.
At 2.43am, the New York Observer reported that photographers with credentials were barred from Liberty Square. Seconds later the director of editorial operations at Gawker reported that a CBS news chopper were ordered out of the sky by the NYPD. New York Times journalist Jarid Malsin went to jail in zipties. And 20 minutes later, we heard the NYPD was cutting down trees in Liberty Square, and from our office space we could hear the deployment of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), a sound cannon. To be certain, we could see and feel that this operation had been planned carefully to exclude all media coverage, sending out a loud message about how dissent will be treated in this democracy.
Holy fuck. Hello, Rabbit Hole.
Maybe everyone in America should read this?
Oh dear.
(via journalofajournalist)
“Mr. Bloomberg met daily with several deputies and commissioners, and as more business owners complained and editorials lampooned him as gutless, his patience wore thin.”
This meme, of journalists describing elected officials (or, nonsensically, municipalities) as moving to dismantle these protests because their “patience wore thin” is particularly irksome. Because, and any competent editor/reporter should know this, the right to peaceably assemble isn’t subject to the “patience” of an elected official. To describe it this way is to accept that citizens are allowed in any public space only at the sufferance of their government, and at least for now in the U.S., that simply isn’t true.
(Police Oust Occupy Wall Street Protesters at Zuccotti Park - NYTimes.com)
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