The
Occupy Wall Street Protest encampment is located at Zuccotti Park, on the
corner of Broadway and Liberty St. The camp is set up in an abnormally
organized manner for this type of event. There is a kitchen, a sleeping
quarter, a medical center, an art and posters area, an information desk, and a
group assembly area.
The
park is officially owned by Brookfield Office Properties, an investment company.
This particular investment company is
part of the groups that rivaling the movement the protesters are pushing for.
Also, this company is thought to have ties with Mayor Bloomberg, someone who has
expressed that he wants the protest to be shut down.
The
groups that have been in disagreement over the use of Zuccotti Park are the
Protesters, who are using the park as a camp in order to fuel a change, and
Brookfield Office Properties, who are working with Mayor Bloomberg and the
police force to ‘clean’ up the park.
The
‘cleaning up the park’ operation, that BOP wishes to initiate, may end up not
only cleaning up the park, but clean up the protesters as well. You see, when
you send these protesters elsewhere for the four hours it takes to clean the
park, most of the people will go home and take a shower. After taking their
shower and having a nap, the civilians will realize how much they missed their
home during the past month of living on the streets. The civilians will then realize that they
don’t want to continue their movement and will stay home, resulting in a loss
of manpower for the movement. This ‘cleaning’ is threatening the very existence
of the cause and should be treated with maximum resistance.
The
park ‘cleaning’ was eventually called off by Brookfield Office Properties when:
The early morning announcement from the Mayor’s office in New York came after 300,000+ Americans signed petitions to stop the eviction, and flooded the 311 phone network in solidarity with those in Liberty Square. At 6 AM this morning, 3,000+ New Yorkers, unions, students, and others joined the occupiers in the square… (OccupyWallStreet)
After
that, and a Police Motorcyclist parking a vehicle on top of a Pedestrian Protester, Brookfield Office Properties
decided that they were going to call off the parks ‘cleaning’.
The
Mayor and police have publicized that they want to the protesters to leave
Zuccotti Park by arresting and macing innocent protesters. The protesters
displayed that the random arrests and assaults on several protesters during the
last month are wrong by video-documenting and contacting the media, but that
has barely had an effect on the situation. The protesters are creating the
videos to use media to fuel the movement, to persuade people to get the word
out and to prevent more arrests.
You
know, police shouldn’t lay a finger on any person without a legal reason.
Period. They shouldn’t break the vows of their job, but some do. They are
corrupt, and there is nothing anyone can really do about it, without their
personal info; Personal info that many officers aren’t willing to give out, despite
their job requiring them to. In my unbiased opinion, the cops shouldn’t have
the right to harm or arrest any of the protesters on Wall Street unless they,
as individuals, break the law.
