But OWS prided itself on its leaderless principle — a stance that would bring much criticism — and on reaching decisions by public debate and group consent. A speaker would shout out a few words, which would then be chanted by those close by, and then rechanted by everyone else. Almost immediately a strategic schism emerged. White drafted a resolution outlining the demand, which he emailed to Holmes, but it was gently rejected. The failure to create the demand was a strategic error that was unavoidable based on the prevailing prefigurative anarchism in New York City at that time.
In that idealised society, debate would replace demands. White wanted to gain momentum by organising around a single overwhelming demand that would engage universal popular support.
Holmes wanted to set up a makeshift society that would be a model for the future. It was Holmes who slept out in the square. It was an approach that called for an awful lot of meetings. Many activists love meetings. White is not one of them. Holmes, however, is a meetings person. And she was not alone. In a film she made about OWS called All Day All Week , we see a number of mostly young people excited by outreach meetings, actions groups, legal groups, communications groups, town planning, treasury and comfort groups, food committees and student assemblies.
There was even a demands group, that duly failed to come up with any demands. In the film you can see a performative aspect to the occupation, and not just in the drummers and buskers who seem to provide an endless noisy soundtrack to the proceedings. Although the autumnal weather soon turned cold, people kept coming in the early days, and the crowds kept swelling.
The police made continual attempts to stem the flow by insisting that all tents and permanent structures be removed, but Liberty Plaza, as it was renamed by the protesters, held firm.
On 25 September, protesters marched from the plaza to Union Square, where the police pepper-sprayed screaming demonstrators and arrested dozens of activists. The scenes were captured on smartphones and quickly went viral, turning up on the evening news, which served to bring more people to the protest. There were also celebrity visitors, such as the film-maker Michael Moore and the radical academic Cornel West. A rumour also went round that Radiohead were going to pay a visit and play a concert in solidarity.
Had the band actually turned up, there is the question of whether they would have been allowed by the occupiers to perform, and how long it would have taken to reach that decision. After 20 minutes of listening to this back and forth, Lewis left, having not addressed the gathering. Although the Radiohead rumour was soon exposed as false, more people came flocking to the plaza un New York.
For one young protester from Brooklyn, the new arrivals were not a wholly positive development. Organizers say 10, to 20, people marched; the media puts the number somewhere below 15, In the evening, " mayhem breaks out " when crowds overrun police barriers and officers "swat protesters with batons and spray them with mace.
Asked about Occupy Wall Street, President Obama says : "I think it expresses the frustrations the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country Brookfield promises that demonstrators will be let back in after the four-hour powerwashing, but says it plans to enforce park rules prohibiting tents, tarps, and sleeping in the park.
Infuriated protesters view the announcement as Bloomberg's plan to shut down the movement, and begin cleaning the park themselves, also vowing to " defend the occupation " from police. While the demonstrations are generally peaceful, violence erupts in Rome when rioters hijack the protest there. In New York, thousands of people march to the U. Armed Forces recruiting station in Times Square to protest spending on foreign wars.
In Oakland, Calif. When hundreds of protesters return later in the day, police fire tear gas canisters in to the crowd. In the month leading up to Bank Transfer Day, an estimated , people pulled their cash out of major banks. And at 1. A judge rules that although the protesters do not have a First Amendment right to camp out in the park, they are allowed to return to Zuccotti sans tents and tarps.
Other Occupiers hold similar demonstrations across the country — in Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver, and several other cities. Hundreds of people are arrested. The terms 99 and 1 percenter, fist coined by the Hells Angeles motorcycle club, were popularized by the Occupy movement; the first refers to the majority of people living in the United States, and the second represents Wall Street and the wealthiest portion of the population.
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