GET READY: Massive Day of Occupy Action in New York Thursday

GET READY: Massive Day of Occupy Action in New York Thursday
Pass this on to everyone.
Occupy Schedule for Thursday:
7:00 AM, protesters gather in Liberty Plaza - Zucotti Park
Only small bags and signs allowed, no camping gear is permitted in the
park according to the new rules. You may be subjected to search before
entering the park.
Shut Down Wall Street
Dramatic unauthorized street theater is planned.
Students from universities across the city plan to walk out of class.
Walkouts will be occurring all day on different campuses, but,
according to organizer Zoltán Glück, will converge on Union Square at
3 PM and then will march down to Foley Square to meet the rest of the
protesters.
3:00pm — Occupy the Subway
We will gather at 3:00pm at 16 central subway hubs and take our own stories to the trains, using the "People's Mic"
5:00 PM Mass Rally at Foley Square.
Take the Square, Festival of Lights on Brooklyn Bridge
At 5:00pm thousands will gather at Foley Square in solidarity with laborers demanding jobs to rebuild this country's infrastructure and economy. They will encircle City Hall and march across the Brooklyn Bridge, carrying thousands of handheld lights, as a festival of lights to celebrate two months of a new movement to reclaim our democracy.

At the end of the rally, OWS declares that there will be a march to the bridges.
Wear comfortable shoes, warm clothing, and if possible have at least
$100.00 for your own bail in case of arrest. Bring signs, whistles,
pots pans and spoons to make some noise.
Updates and more info here: OccupyWallSt.org

Undaunted by Crackdown, Occupy Wall Street and New York Activists Plan
Massive Day of Action
Just days after the brutal raid on the Occupy movement's home base in
Liberty Plaza, a huge day of action is planned to take the movement to
another level.

New York's 99 percent aren't letting a massive middle-of-the-night
police raid get them down.
November 17, the two-month anniversary of the Liberty Plaza occupation
in Manhattan's financial district, has been the center of plans for
massive actions for weeks now, and the crackdown by billionaire mayor
Michael Bloomberg's forces early Tuesday morning has only given new
determination to the organizers and activists.
“Everyone as of last night was totally exhausted and drained,” Olivia
Leirer of New York Communities for Change told me, “But ready to put
their energy into the 17th and to make sure the energy on the 17th is
not about the police crackdown, but about the message of the
movement.”
That message will be heard across New York's five boroughs, from
morning til evening, on Thursday. “Storytelling and getting people's
voices heard is the major theme that's running throughout everything
that's happening tomorrow. There will be plenty of opportunities from
sunup to sundown for people to come and tell their stories,” Leirer
said.
According to the OccupyWallSt.org website (which is not run by the
Liberty Plaza occupiers but an affinity group), starting at 7:00 AM,
protesters will gather in Liberty Plaza and gather to “exchange
stories rather than stocks.” Details are few, but rumors are flying
that some dramatic unauthorized street theater is planned.
Students from universities across the city plan to walk out of class
on Thursday as well. All week, students have held events as part of a
coordinated Week of Action, including a lecture by acclaimed author
and activist Arundhati Roy in Washington Square Park, a rally at
Columbia Law School in support of locked-out Sotheby's art handlers,
teach-ins, and much more.
“The real threat to health, safety, and democracy in our communities
dwells in the boardrooms of Wall Street firms and universities that
are destroying our economy, dismantling our education, and corrupting
our political system - not among non-violent demonstrators spending
cold nights in tents in Liberty Square,” said Aaron Winslow, a student
at Columbia University, in a statement.
The student strike, like all of the November 17 actions, was planned
ahead of time in solidarity with the activists in Liberty Plaza, but
will no doubt now have new meaning for those involved. Walkouts will
be occurring all day on different campuses, but, according to
organizer Zoltán Glück, will converge on Union Square at 3 PM and then
will march down to Foley Square to meet the rest of the protesters.
“The novelty of this,” Glück told me, “is the new level of
coordination and collective action and solidarity between all the
schools. There's always been organizing on different campuses, but now
they're working together. Occupy Wall Street has provided the form and
the forum for a dialogue to be opened up. This is building, and at
this moment when it feels like we've lost a lot of territory.”
Around the city, meanwhile, subway stops will see action as well, as
16 central subway hubs will see activists telling their stories,
handing out flyers, and bringing the message of the Occupy Wall Street
movement to the outer boroughs, to people who don't normally come
across the protest in Liberty Plaza. According to the OccupyWallSt.org
site, these actions will begin at 3 PM.
The centerpiece of the day will be a massive, permitted rally at Foley
Square, the site of October 5th's big union solidarity march and of a
temporary meeting ground early Tuesday morning as protesters thrown
out of Liberty Plaza searched for someplace to regroup.
“It's not going to be a traditional rally or march at all, it's going
to be creative and exciting, we're really thrilled about the energy
that's been put into it,” Leirer told me.
She said that rather than a rally where speakers address a crowd of
listeners, instead there will be soapboxes set up throughout the
space, for everyone in the 99% to come and speak their piece, tell
their story to the crowd. “It's the physical embodiment of the 'We are
the 99%' concept,” she said.
Finally, at the end of the day, the website declares that there will
be a march to the bridges. Though it doesn't specify which bridge, the
site does say:
“Let's make it as musical a march as possible - bring your songs, your
voice, your spirit! Our "Musical" on the bridge will culminate in a
festival of light as we mark the two-month anniversary of the #occupy
movement, and our commitment to shining light into our broken economic
and political system.”
Leirer pointed out that the day was planned well in advance of
Bloomberg's raid on the park, and that hopefully the day will remind
everyone what the real message of the movement is. She doesn't think
the crackdown will stop the movement—just the opposite.
“I think that the Occupy movement is so much bigger than the park, and
what's happened across the country and the solidarity that we've seen
from groups like ours, labor unions, we've seen this new invigoration
to the work that we've been doing forever.”
More:
http://www.alternet.org/story/153094/undaunted_by_crackdown,_occupy_wall_street_and_new_york_activists_plan_massive_day_of_action/?page=entire
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Have a great day,
Tommy