Occupy L.A. Remains Another Night; Shrinks From Thousands to Hundreds

• "like hungry sharks waiting for their weakened prey to die so they can finish them off with ease." That is some terrible writing Ryan, on numerous levels. I get that you want to make it dramatic but pulp is not dramatic it is melo-dramatic. terrible. kinda reminds me of a MASH episode when Radar buys into a writing course he finds in the back of a comic book.

• Stay strong and be vigilant.  Everyone in attendance should be ready to text, tweet, and post alert messages the second the cops show up to smash up this occupation.  Have people at the ready to swarm in.

• well certainly the person who wrote the copy on the photo wants the movement to die when stated,  "occupiers infesting street..."  Implying that occupiers were no more than vermin.

• Declaration of the Occupation of New York City:As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.They have sold our privacy as a commodity.They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*To the people of the world,We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.Join us and make your voices heard!*These grievances are not all-inclusive

• I thought that was an awesome ending. Loved the shark anology.

• Could someone a little less prone to dramatics edit that last paragraph out of this otherwise decent post?

• What are the movnents goals, other than raising awarness. Make some changes

• Actually, there was media present and streaming live throughout the night. KPFK was there among other independent media. And what's the stupid ending statement regarding squad cars? Does this blogger, um, jounalist want the movement to die?

• Since last night the police held a meeting forcing media into a pool arrangement, whereby only a few representatives of the media okayed by LAPD can remain without being threatened with arrest along with the occupiers, maybe that's one reason less media were around.

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