After
Bloomberg
Evicts Occupy
Wall Street,
Exile on
Canal, Court
Win?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
LOWER
MANHATTAN,
November 15 --
Two months
after Occupy
Wall Street
began
in Zuccotti
Park, and two
days before a
called-for
actual
occupation
of Wall Street
and the New
York Stock
Exchange,
Mayor Michael
Bloomberg sent
hundreds of
riot equipped
police to
remove all
demonstrators
from the park,
which they had
renamed
Liberty
Square.
Text
message
alerts began
at 1 am, and
by 3 am
structures in
the park were
coming
down: the tent
from which
protesters had
been fed, the
much
publicized
library with
its lights run
by bicycle
powered
generators,
the First Aid
tent.
The evicted
and their
supporters
regrouped ten
blocks north
in Foley
Square, where
protests to
major banks'
"robo-signing"
foreclosures
had taken
place.
During
its (first?)
two
months based
in Zuccotti
Park, the
Occupy Wall
Street
movement
marched on
nearby
JPMorgan Chase
and Goldman
Sachs, and
headed to
midtown
Manhattan to
Bank of
America,
Citigroup and
Morgan
Stanley.
To some, the
call to target
the New York
Stock Exchange
itself on
November 17
triggered
Mayor
Bloomberg's
reaction.
In
Foley Square,
it was
announced that
a court order
- a Temporary
Restraining
Order -
now allowed
the
demonstrators
to return to
Zuccotti Park,
at least
until an 11:30
am hearing. A
march set off
around City
Hall -- "hey
hey, ho ho,
our
billionaire
mayor has got
to go" -- and
then up
to Canal
Street and
Sixth Avenue.
There the
police stopped
it, telling
Inner City
Press, if you
do not move
back you will
be arrested.
It was 10:30
am, with only
an hour left
on the
(first?) court
order. And so
Inner City
Press headed
back south.
There, the
police refused
to obey the
court order.
On Wall
Street, the
"public"
atrium on 60
Wall Street
was closed,
and its
Internet
turned off.
And yet...
this story.
Watch this
site.
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