Occupy
Wall
Street at
Trinity's Lot,
Bloom-Scrooge
Parodied,
Obama
Hit on NDAA
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
MANHATTAN,
December
16, updated --
On the three
month
anniversary of
the initial
Occupation of
Zuccotti Park
in Lower
Manhattan, an
Occupy Wall
Street
crowd gathered
north on Canal
Street in
front of a
chain linked
fenced lot
owned by
Trinity
Church. It was
to be a
re-Occupation,
Occupy 2.0,
the reclaiming
of The
Commons.
Some
police stood
in front of
the lot; Inner
City Press
ventured north
and found the
NYPD "Disorder
Control Unit"
and van loads
of other
police
on Varrick
Street,
waiting.
Under
a statue of
the founder of
the Dominican
Republic,
there were
signs,
saying End the
Fed and
chiding
Obama's for
the National
Defence
Authorisation
Act for Fiscal
Year 2012,
presumably for
its detention
provisions.
An affluent
Tribeca
resident
walked by and
muttered, "Why
don't they
just go down
to
Washington?"
Why not Wall
Street?
There
was a puppet
show, in which
the ghoast of
John D.
Rockefeller
visited a
green
masked Mayor
Bloom-Scrooge
speaking of
Occupations
Past. Rosa
Parks
made an
appearance;
Tiny Tim,
evicted by a
foreclosure,
warmed
himself at a
bonfire.
Photos on www.twitter.com/innercitypress
Priests
and
pastors called
for the
re-Occupation
and called out
Trinity
Church.
Things dragged
on, with
trombones
playing
against mic
checks, signs
urging those
already there
to tune in to
the radio.
Nearly
everyone
was filming,
or taping, or
live
streaming. But
when, some
asked, would
the
re-Occupation,
or at least
attempt,
finally occur?
Update:
and at 3:30
pm, the ladder
was put to the
fence and
entry began,
followed by at
least 35
arrests, a
march up
Seventh and
Sixth Avenues,
delay on 29th
Street and
then into
Times Square
-- new story
forthcoming,
watch this
site.
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