Occupy Promises ‘Biggest Shut Down’ New York City ‘Has Ever Seen’ on May 1
- Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:37pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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In anticipation of May Day demonstrations, Occupy Wall Street is vowing to pull out all the stops with the “biggest shut down“ New York City has ”ever seen.” Likewise, Occupy Oakland is also gearing up to shut down all travel in the San Francisco Bay area.
That is quite a build-up.
(Related: Bunny-Style Hopping? You‘ll Want to See the Videos of Occupy Training for Its ’May Day’ Protest)
Occupy Wall Street’s nod to this lofty goal can be found on the website Strikeisaverb.net, which states that this May 1, “we will create the biggest shut down the city of New York has ever seen.”
The statement continues by explaining that “direct action groups within Occupy Wall Street,“ as a part of the ”global mobilizations for general strike and economic non-compliance, will block one or more Manhattan-bound bridge or tunnel to protest the shameful opulence of the 1%.”
The site claims that it is making its preliminary announcement about the blockades “as a fair warning” to the “working people of New York and New Jersey” who they hope will consider joining the strike. “The city will be shut down, so enjoy the day without the 99%!”
(Related: A Civil War Is Breaking Out Within Occupy Wall Street Over Supporting Obama)
Meanwhile, across the country, Occupy Oakland is poised for a similar shutdown. A statement on the website Occupythebridge.com reads:
“If any of the unions on the Golden Gate bridge declare a strike or shutdown action on May Day, we will act in solidarity with these striking workers and the international call for a general strike on May Day, by blockading the flow of capital to the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District. This will be accomplished by a collaboration of pickets and direct action which will shut down all modes of transportation from Marin to San Francisco.”
(H/T: CNSNews)
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Comments (150)
JohnGaltSociety
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:09pmThis is becoming of Atlas Shrugg, maybe the 1% will go on strike close all businesses and see how the 99% will survived without the 1%. I am not in the 1% but I sure don’t think like the 99%.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:42pmTheir logic is so childish. To them, you’re either a 1%, or a 99%. That’s quite a gap. No shades of grey. It’s no different from…Black or White, Good or Bad, Up or Down, Smart or Dumb, Scabies or No scabies, to be, or not to be…
Report Post »fastfacts1
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:54pmDid you ever see their “Altered State’ Meditation video? These guys are quite interesting on the out side and there are no words to describe them on the inside.
Here is that video: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/mar/altaring_occupy_meditation.html
Report Post »freedomofspeech
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:00pmAtlas Shrugged, what a great, long book. Don’t hear of the 54% paying taxes or is it 48% gets lower every day. I am the tax payer. I don’t like to use the word stupid, however I am unable to think of a better word, because these ppl (in my humble professional opinion) have a mental disorder. The sun will come up the next day after all is said and done, yet those that participate will have less cash in pocket. Who will be hurt? the serfs? the president? the middle east oil? the wealthy? the New Yorkers? I would like to ask these ppl “feel important yet?” attention seeking behavior.
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:09pmWell I think the 99% would survive just fine without the 1%…
you can‘t close a business that has been confiscated and you can’t hoard wealth that has been confiscated…
it‘s not like it’s never been done before…that’s what May Day is all about…
We have laws against the immorality of drug use, the immorality of prostitution, the immorality of polygamy, etc.
why not laws against the immorality of greed?
If men can come and put you in a cage for smoking a joint, then they can put you in a cage for colluding to fleece Americans on the price of gasoline…
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:27pmMay 1st. May Day. Huh. I‘m sure that’s just a coincidence.
Report Post »hoopsgulch
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:17pmGood. The bedbugs will stay in NYC.
Report Post »hoopsgulch
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:20pmJust as long as they don’t start any fires or eat any salt.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:45pmBarack-
Report Post »“why not laws against the immorality of greed?”
What constitutes greed? who decides? Any more than need to survive could be considered greed. What, you saved an extra cup of rice? How selfish, off to the gulag with you…The only good commie is a dead one.
BarackStalin
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:21pmHidden,
what constitutes drug abuse? who decides?
What, you put sugar on your cheerios? Sugar is a vicious gateway drug…did you know that 100% of all heroin and cocaine abusers used sugar first?
We’d better put sugar on the banned/regulated list along with viagra and penicillin (and now nyquil in CA)…
and this mushroom is good to eat, but if you pick that mushroom men will come and put you in a cage…Why? well, that mushroom will make you giggle, and we can’t have that now can we?
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:31pmBarackStalin, don’t get me started on the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide.
It has a 100% addiction rate and the most severe withdrawals of any substance. After using it just once, a person will almost certainly die within three days of the last time it was ingested if they do not take more.
It causes death when inhaled, causes tissue damage when skin is exposed to it for extended periods, and burns the skin when in a gaseous state.
Worst of all, it is used in the production of most foods we consume, and it is estimated that up to 99% of all Americans are unknowingly addicted to it. To this day, it is 100% legal.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:46pm@KICKINBACK:
Report Post »They have no logic in their brains: their brain is not designed for logic.
It‘s nothing but gregarious behavior instigated and led by a handful of smart Socialist bastards who precisely reproduce Lenin’s tactics in his pre-1917 activities.
eric6161
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:01amIf you make over $2.50 an hour… you’re in the top 50%. So most of the ninety-nine percenters are really part of the one-percent. Ruh Roh… they were talking about only America… not the world as a whole. Everyone in America is part of the one-percenters… even the “poor.”
Once America is brought down by these 99% then the real 99%ers will stand up and bring down the faux 99% and we can all live with flies buzzing around our faces eating crickets and bark.
Report Post »dsny327
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:50pmDon’t forget OWS no smoking , no salt, no soda, no fats in NY. It really might be a good day for everyone to take a UN paid day off. If it‘s unpaid then you don’t pay any taxes. Washington loses.
Report Post »Oh, never mind I forgot Washington wants that so we go deeper into the black hole. Everything Washington does is anti American.
drattastic
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:08pmShut it down ,the 99% of the rest of the country doesn’t care, it’ll just be another day to us, only the MSM will care and they become less relevant every day.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:14pmVery true!
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:22pmI was going to say yes, please shut New York down!! Who cares??
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:23pmYes .. if I had a NY business I would not open on May 1st .. I would however be inside the building ARMED .. I don’t care what LOONEYBLOOMEY says .. If I had to HIRE the security I would .. let them run up against ADULTS!
Report Post »senior74
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:24pmMAY1 is the communist main holiday! I Last year I saw in the LA Times blog a parade with the people carrying big signs “communist party usa & democratic socialist of america.” I was shocked!
Report Post »Really thought it wasn’t going on here but then found out about the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21 which is being implemented & will make our country part of a communist one world gov. I doubt very much these occupiers know they are being used by the communist party. If you don’t know about agenda 21 you need to research, you will never hear about it on the news! I’m 76 & found it online! This plan will control every area of our lives!!!
NHwinter
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:00pmAgenda 21 Summary
Report Post »Agenda 21, was the global plan adopted by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development on 14 June 1992. Here is the conference statement, press …
jaygary.com/agenda21.shtml – Cached
Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:05pmHow cares if NYC is shut down. I hope there is good weather and the 1% can enjoy a Spring day at home.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:07pmAll smart folks stay outta NYC and Oakland on MayDay and gas ‘em…
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:16pmOccupy LA will be there in force. In a side note: A Scabies Alert has been put out by the CDC, starting May 1st, 2012. All bridges Tunnels and Rods will be shut and “A Deworming” will take place starting Midnight May 2nd. “Showers ” will be administered by the DHS
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:06pmThey can announce and carry out their plans to disrupt entire cities and the lives of thousands of honest Americans trying to earn a living and the President, the media and the mayors are silent.
But let ONE cop so much as lay a hand on one of these communist SOB’s and there will be outcries and outrage from the protesters and the media. I can hear it now………..police brutality, police brutality.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:05pmReligious Tourette Syndrom Alert. He’s gone “ political ”…and maybe postal ?!
Report Post »discus02
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:03pmMay 1st a good day to disenfect NY. Wash the crap down the sewer!
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:02pmFunny how people who are paid to protest–hence employed–whine about unemployment.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:24pmLOL .. good point ….
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:02pmI think it is high time to SHUT DOWN the Occupies. The 10% who pay no taxes running up the deficit for us suckers who do. Send these kids back to their parents basement and their ObamaCare health coverage. Ridiculous bunch of anarchists.
Report Post »Free_Thinker
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:21pm10%? You need to up that number to 48%.
Report Post »Revere2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:59pmIsn’t it curious that both states are liberal, and have the giveme’s
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:06pmDemocrat controlled cities are their breeding / permission- given grounds . Big surprise ??
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:58pmI hope that the Yankees are playing, May 1. I hear is Handgun Day at the stadium. Should make for a good shootout.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:05pmEvery day is handgun day in the Bronx…;-)
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:58pmFor all calling to shut down the city…do you know how many average joes and janes who work in the medical field, transportation field, hell, just working stiffs live in NJ? Most , like myself are trying to make a living and are conservative like you all…imagine a bunch of kids playing Marxism taking food out of your kids mouth because they are calling for violent shut down of your towns?…how ticked would you be?..if this is the ‘call to arms’ that Barry so desperatly needs, it will spread to the midwest as well in the form of emboldened sporadic sympathetic protests resulting in martial law…Barry will have won…this is getting ugly, these ‘people’ will not go quietly…what if they decide to shut down ports along the Mississippi River?..disrupting trade flow in the heartland/midwest…because that is the next step they are planning…think about it.
Report Post »socialism.rocks
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:11pmwhen austerty does come its coming to red-states they all take more then they put in federal taxes..
Report Post »blue states take less then they put in……there is not a functioning red-state without blue states paying out the arse for them
people really think that blue-states are not fed up paying the way for red-states sixty plus years of it…
And this right to work crap is just a way to take jobs… from union states while taking extra tax dollars from blue-states to fund the right to work states ~ thats under-cutting theft- double dipping-
red-staters are in for a big surpise
vox_populi
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:12pmThe point is to prove that Capital depends on Labor, and not the other way around (although without total union backing, I doubt May Day will be a particularly crippling strike). Still, it‘s nice to see solidarity actions around International Worker’s Day. The Haymarket martyrs would be proud.
Report Post »lisa2994
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:22pmSo sorry Mark.. None of our government officials will do anything about it either! Hopefully it is just more of the same rhetoric and not many show up!!
Report Post »nurseheidi
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:41pmSoooo, you say Socialism rocks but then complain about paying for the Red States? Such idiots!
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:51pm@Socialsim an @VOX…when austerity comes it will come to the Nation as a whole…it will come in the form of inflation and loss of value in everything from housing (already happening) to the debasement and value of the dollar (here already)..nobody nor one state over another escapes it…capital does depend on labor..labor depends on a climate in which their employer is free to invest and grow and is not crippled with taxes that cripple and stifle expansion, thus destroying labors prospects of employment…bloated union pensions/benefits and hyper regulation of entire industries (cass sunstein) destroy the incentive for both ‘capital’ and ‘labor’ to exist and grow…thinking that this generation will get ‘socialism’ right is a fairy tale…look at Europe, a case can be made that it works for about 50 yars then collapses…inevitably and without fail…history has shown that War is usually the ‘correcting’ factor.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:58pmSomeday the most vulgar word will be “Socialism.” Socialism….ahhh, Socialism….ahhh, Socialism…ahhh. Please stop saying that word Sss….ism.
Report Post »ravendoe
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:55pmWhen has protesting ever accomplished anything productive? Making a change to something requires movement, as in going in and actually doing something about it, not just complaining and blocking traffic. If you want something WORK for it, go get it, make it happen don’t just stand in the way of others making things happen.
Report Post »DownWithDems
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:01pmI hope the disruption affects all the NY Liberals who support the Occupiers.
May they sit in traffic for hours!
Report Post »ZX12R
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:55pmI hope someone will have lots of soap and deodorant on hand for the smellies.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:08pmAnd port o lets.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:27pm“Here’s Johnny”!!!!
Report Post »Gita
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:52pmTypical commie pinkos take away the people’s freedom! The ends justifies the means. We are onto you occupiers bring it on!
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:08pmThey aren’t even a fraction of 1% and yet they claim to represent the 99%. Lies. Lies. Lies. And more lies. It’s time the police force starts employing those nonlethal crowd control devices.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:52pmAnd Mayor Bloomberg will escape in the new airplane he wants to get.
Report Post »AZhunter
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:34amThe reason theyre in NY and Cali is obvious. Two of the most liberal states in the union. Ridiculous gun control laws. Come on out to AZ, New Mexico or Texas. We’ll greet you right. Ak 47s and Ar 15s. Come on out west.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:51pmJust our local Democrat / union franchise doing their bit for their global buddy “ Marxists ” fighting the War on Capitalism.
Report Post »mcsledge
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:07pmDid you know that in Communist Manifesto, unions are a tool for taking over the masses. Nothing like ‘so-called’ workers unite.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:50pmIf you live there just plan on taking a day off. Doomberg will simply work with them at first anyway.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:48pmWell, that’s exciting…. I guess “Smart Bombs” “Predator Drones” would be inappropriate, huh? *sigh*
Report Post »dont_tax_me_bro
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:47pmYAAWWWNNN!!!!! Could care less about those rats. Glad I live in the midwest where there is still sense of personal property and not in the cell pool called NYC.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:47pmGo ahead shut it down and DC as well.. save us a lot of money.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:43pmbloodshed is in the forecast
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:42pm..and the kiddie circus begins again…block my way to work to support my family, you will be sorely and permanently ‘broke’.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:07pmYou live up there don’t you? God bless and be careful friend.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:09pm@Momrules..thank you kindly..I’ve been telling everyone it is getting crazy, here it comes.
Report Post »taxwarrior
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:41pmOCCUPY – THE TEA PARTY
Shut is down. Close NY NY. Make the greedy crony capitalist quake in their boots.
DO IT
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:46pmThe only people that will suffer are the ones that need the paycheck. The 1% have plenty of money. They could quit their business’s all together and leave the idiot .99%ers without jobs or income. If I were a billionaire I would do just that and encourage my fellow super rich to do the same.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:54pmLordy my. A message from the “ crony capitalist” / Let’s Have A Revolution ” / like Ron Paul , Guy Fawkes masks / Anarchy Crowd… ( spare us, Oh Lord )
Report Post »ZX12R
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:58pmWhy don’t you try growing up and being an adult.
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:02pmThe “greedy crony capitalists” will not be affected by the shut down of a couple bridges for one day in two cities. Worse comes to worse, they fly their helicopter over the crowd.
You’re only hurting those you claim to defend.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:41pm“Dark City”… Shut it down… Shut it all down!
Report Post »leonardo44
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:03pmDon’t be such an ignorant weirdo. NYC is not a “Dark City” . It’s filled with people just trying to make a living and provide for their families like everybody else. These OWS goons are evil, pathetic losers. Lives may be endangered because of their lunatic plans. Let’s shut them down !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:30pmYes. The OWS Crowd is celebrating the International Communist Worker’s of The World Day ! That’s the day that the atheist Communists hijacked from the Catholic Church which celebrated St. Joseph’s feast day on that day. This hijacking was the Communists’ way of disrespecting the ignorant old Church . Just like the Democrats are trying to do again over the ObamaCare controversy ! Now isn’t that ” just special ?” And doesn’t that just tell you so much about our “progressives ” in the Democrat Party ? Big Brother versus God. Some things never change… Oh, May Day : when our Occupiers come out of their Marxist/ Communist / whatever the hack they call themselves today / Closet ! Out into the light !
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:56pmLeonardo44, He’s referring to the movie Dark City. The sci fi movie about kidnapped people on a giant floating spaceship that looks like a noir chicago circa 1930-60. Excellent movie, cult classic.
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