Occupy Wall Street Plans Massive May Day Bridge and Tunnel Blockade in NYC
- Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:07am by
Buck Sexton
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Occupy Wall Street plans to come back with a bang in less than ten days when it unleashes its May Day General Strike that could blockade the bridges and tunnels necessary for New York City to function.
Occupywallstreet.org lays out the plan openly on its website:
“On May 1, 2012, autonomous 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 bridges or tunnels to protest the shameful opulence of the 1%.”
In addition to the planned transit blockade, Occupy is rallying factions across the country in solidarity with general strikes around the world: “For the first time, workers, students, immigrants, and the unemployed from over 115 U.S. cities will stand together for economic justice.”
The global breadth of the protests comes alongside recent Occupy efforts to tie itself to a long history of protest and social upheaval, including the NYC Fiscal Crisis of 1975:
“Last fall, when Occupy Wall Street blocked the Brooklyn Bridge for several hours, we were acting within a long line of protest in New York City that stretches back to the so-called Fiscal Crisis of 1975, which much like now, was a bank led assault against working people. In the summer of 1975, striking hospital employees, including doctors and nurses, blocked the Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge was even blocked by thousands of laid-off police, the very people who act as the guard dogs of the 1%.”
Occupy-affiliated websites have also begun to highlight the history and significance of New York’s Union Square, which is currently the makeshift daily headquarters of the movement after they were evicted from their Zuccotti Park encampment.
The storied Marxist-activist past of Union Square is unknown to most New Yorkers (and the rest of America) but shows that the Occupiers have added a knowledge of history to their organizational tactics and digital media savvy. According to OccupyWallSt.org, Union Square,
“started being used for political rallies soon after notable Labor Day marches in the 1860s (the traditional spring festival of May Day became International Worker’s Day to many after the 1886 Haymarket incident in Chicago), but … it is really only in the beginning of the 20th Century when the use for political demonstrations really began.” Specifically, the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) starts to have a lot of events.”
It also appears that the Occupiers may use a dual-pronged approach on May Day, as some major labor unions have applied for and received a legal protest permit to walk from Union Square to Battery Park at the bottom of Manhattan.
But that legal protest activity by no means precludes the possibility of disruptive illegal protest– even so-called “Black bloc” tactics— from defining the May Day General strike. The Occupiers themselves point out that:
“both the Brooklyn Bridge and the Holland Tunnel were shut down during protests of the shooting death of Sean Bell. But this May 1, we will create the biggest shut down the city of New York has ever seen.”
Where is this all going? What purpose does the general strike serve in the broader context of the Occupy movement?
Learn everything you need to know about the Occupy Movement, where it‘s been and where it’s going, in my this ebook Occupy: American Spring, the Making of a Revolution, available now for pre-order and officially released tomorrow (April 24th).
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Comments (107)
EP46
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:48amJust a silly idea………Has anyone thought about enforcing the law ? Americans have the right for ‘peaceful assembly’……did obama grant the ‘right’ to riot ??? I do not understand why the people of NYC continue to put up with this………they should be in Bloomie’s office by the hundreds daily demanding that he enforce safety and health issues ………..instead he lets it continue …who or how many will have to die before he decides to protect the citizens of NYC from those who come from ‘outside’ to destroy the city ????
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:55amProbably the result of the ” nudge..nudge” business which started with the ACORN mobs in bankers’ neighborhoods to the union mobs in Wisconsin to the Adbsusters Occupy Movement…just nudge, nudge..slowly growing..testing the waters..using our freedoms to destroy our economy…slowly..
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:07am.
We need more Cattle Guards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!………
FYI if Ya’ll see my 2500HD 4×4 coming go ahead stand in the road. Uncle Spank will turn you into a Speed Bump……
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:40amThis is one more portion of the nudge, shove, shoot push that the administration wants to have happen; right now its only a matter of WHEN not IF, they decide to go from shove to shoot against the people of America.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:25amIt is Ironic… that the Big Cities of Liberal Support… are the target of Liberal Protest!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:26amsure does look like the commies want to start a civil war.
Report Post »RxForDeath
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:00amSPANKDAMONKEY
Not only would that be funny to watch, but seeing the hundreds of hippies crying from being stomped by your “carbon footprint” as you drive down the road would be hilarious as well!
Report Post »michael48
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:19amI feel for the thinking folks in NYC, all 10 of them. The rest of the socialist , useless tools …welcome to serfdom, COMRADES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:54pmAction should have been taken a long time age. Too much complacency when the movement started. Now they have a foothold.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:28pmBring in the National Guard, rubber bullets, nets, dogs, and if all else fails, just wound them good.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:39pmIf you were smart you would pull a Rush and Beck and vacate the hellhole if the prices in NY isn’t reason enough to avoid the place you deserve what you get.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:38pmThe PUPPETMASTERs of US politicians WANT a huge conflagration and because the populous is so dumbed down, they will go at each others throats. Uniforms against citizens. Citizens destroying property mindlessly INSTEAD OF TURNING ON THE CAUSE……of the mayhem THE GLOBALISTS.
Report Post »Find them lock them up. REMOVE THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE. Soros/the Clintons/Rosthchjilds/Warburgs/Bushes/Obama/Geithner/Bernanke/Kissinger………..bring them up on crimes of humanity/insider trading. The are all going to be in Chantilly, VA 5/31 ARREST THEM ALL.
All this misery is by their design. All this lack is by their design. Arrest them and the OWs disappear.
hugo65hsv
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:46amThe realization of Obama’s campaign promise of hope and Change we have OWS.. Thank you liberals for all your hard work.. America needed the hate,class, racial, gender wars and divisions of all kinds you have brought into our lives on a daily basis.. Clearly your breed of exceptional American will participate in this disruptive protest..
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:13amExcellent post. Your sum up of everything regarding these matters, done in a short paragraph. I have written down your words, dated it and will be mindful of your post as we watch this nightmare unfold. God bless.
Report Post »kegbuna
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:38pmI‘m not sure where you’re getting that from… where do you see these divisions? There is something not right here..
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:45amOh, goody. From the halls of the Wisconsin legislature to the Brooklyn Bridge, our Communists are celebrating International Workers of the World Day ! And all of you tax payers can just grin and bear it. Or sit down and SHUT UP , as Van Jones would say ! Adbusters’, our Canadian anti-capitalism sponsors of the Occupy Movement , ( i.e., Communism ) is really getting used to disrupting our capitalist economy from the Oakland port to Wall Street to all of those Democrat controlled cities in American. When are they going to call a Communist a Communist. And where are the American adults to deal with these misguided tools and their quite “guided ” International Big Brother Marxist Masters ? That is the question . … Fasten your seat belts…
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:38amThis will be interesting to see. I’m sure NYPD will be out in force arresting people by the dozens if they try to block key roadways. Note that the Occupy bozos don’t ask for the assent of the rest of the “99%” before they try to block commerce. Like the rest of the left, they are convinced of the righteousness of their cause and the rest of us better go along, or else.
Report Post »ENDTIMES2220
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:25amGod said
2 Thess 2:11-12 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Isa 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose [that] in which I delighted not.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:43amAmen! Thank you for that.
Also, read The Harbinger, folks. It is eye opening prophecy. Written by a Messianic Jew. Jonathan Cahn helps us see and understand.
Also read II Chronicles7:14
I Peter 5:6-9
I Chronicles 29:10-18
GOD BLESS, BLAZERS.
Report Post »GOD BLESS AMERICA.
msconstrue
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:17am@grandma……i just finished reading the harbinger a few weeks ago, it was recommended by someone else who posts on this site.
Report Post »it just ties everything together…its a book i think everyone should read.
insight
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:22amI‘m getting a chrome brush guard that says I’ll get through the tunnel.
I don’t get it. They don’t believe in trying and/or gun ownership and they are disrupting our lives? It’s time to make our move people. The ones over 30 are all-but-lost but we can still reach the young ones.
Report Post »soljavsnbppseiu
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:31amlove it… i might do the same thing to my pickup… cept i’ll go mad max style with rusty spikes and junk haha…
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:48amExcuse me, did you say something about the “one’s over thirty”? I’m 49. Everybody I know thinks most of you young ones are lost. You have been thoroughly indoctrinated, we haven’t. Most of the people I know remember what freedom is through experience. You people under Forty don’t even know what is missing. Do you remember when your community supported those who could not support themselves? I do. I cleaned his house. Nobody told me I had to. Somehow I just knew a guy in a wheelchair might need assistance. Just like I knew to lessen my grandparents burden when I spent my summers with them. It wasn’t rocket science. To the kids today, I think it may be rocket science.
Report Post »soljavsnbppseiu
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:19amthese malicious little dirt bags better not come down my street… i consider any type of mass advancement by large groups of disruptive thugs to be a direct threat to my life and the life of any family and friends withing my area. these d-bags will get a very large caliber surprise if they try this in my ‘hood’… my neighbors and i will end thier little protest asap… how dare they think they can act without consequences? it’s one thing to protest with your stupid little signs and yell your little quippy catch phrases, but when you threaten to block peoples access to commerce and transit then you begin to interfere with good people trying to put food on the table. i hope this happens in or around chicago… cuz they will be met with more than police resistance… and no you stupid liberal trolls scamming this site…. its NOT a threat… its a PROMISE!!… good people… who is with me???
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:19amWake up America, otherwise, we will be Amerika.
OWS knows how to do one thing: Stop work, create hostility, prevent productivity and look for handouts. Is this what we want to our great country?
I think not.
New York: You asked for this when you elected the Progressive Liberals to run your city. Have fun dealing with this mess.
Report Post »jespasinthru
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:24amImagine the rage and frustration of the average employed New Yorker trying to get to work that day. Now multiply that by several million. OWS certainly knows how to generate support for their cause, don’t they? Meanwhile, those of us out here in the boonies where OWS is not tolerated will be watching the chaos and mayhem on TV and enjoying the show.
Report Post »Byrdi
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:11amI think they should stay home and finish Marx’s book. They missed the part about what communism is. Constant revolution to thin the population and make everyone lose their own identity. Sameness. Fighting for the right to lose your own human nature to become a bug. How absurd.
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:18amReagan put a stop to the Air Traffic Controller Union as fast as you can say OWS. This President is stopping the flow of Commerce in America – His people are planning this BS and it should be considered Treason. The Violence is on his hands!
Report Post »jespasinthru
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:13amI‘ll bet most of those OWS useful idiots don’t even know that May Day is a famous, worldwide Communist holiday. That’s the day every year when the old Soviet Union used to parade their rusty old nukes through the streets of Moscow, with the goose-stepping troops marching behind them.
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:09amWhackooooooos
Get a freakin Job
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:07amOccupy Wall Street Plans LOL . These plans are why we invented pepper spray, rubber bullets, fire hoses, and have German sheperds as pets. I say put a little Irish spring hand soap in the high pressure water cannons and free a hippie anarchist. We need to flush the 99% turds, i am retired military and have been out of work since hope and change came to town, the only reason my house payment is payed and i continue to eat is because i saved my Iraq deployment money and my meager disabled vet retirement. Help a hippie anarchist on 1 May 2012 give them a bar of soap and a kick to the rear and a pace count and azimuth to cuba.
Report Post »JackSprat
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:05amIt is the natural result of a leftist regime that cannot function without discontent. Either this will wake up the citizenry or the demise of our Republic is guaranteed. It is either the beginning of the end of our Republic or the end of the beginning for OWS. Progressives are taking off their masks, Obama is their leader and lends his encouragement by his cowardly actions!
Report Post »allenb611
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:01amObama’s support for Occupy is going hurt him considerably.
Report Post »mikester8888
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:00amBloomburg, that guy couldnt govern my toilet. The Northern states suck. You people are messed up man. Men walking around married to other men. Look, i know you all are holed up for months every year due to the snow. Sitting around eating chili will do nothing for your looks. But heres an invitation to all good looking wemon up there that want to escape thier insanity. Come on down South! Haaahaa now tell me again that the North won the war. Who in thier right mind would live in that trash.
Report Post »burke
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:55amGet the rubber bullets out, & if that don’t work use real ones.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:48amGood! Shut the city down. NY deserves nothing less.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:09amI wholeheartedly agree. I hope this movement rises up and metastasizes throughout the deep blue cities in this country and the lunatic whiners cause more disruption and chaos than before. The patriots can then remind the masses that the left created, fostered, financed and encouraged them and hang this albatross around the neck of their mentor the democrat party. Run ads featuring the likes of Their Marxist Messiah in the white house and his minions defending the rioting criminals in their own words. Beat that drum until it is heard throughout the land. Maybe then the duped Obots will see the light.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:15am@COSETTE… AMEN! Couldn’t agree more. I think this is what we really need.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:21amClose it down and DC as well–
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:47amSo, let’s see how Bloomblame deals with his city at a stand still! Money still talks!
Report Post »stormcrow53
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:15amParasites on the top or bottom don’t care. Their goal is to enslave us.
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:46amOWS has the most evil intentions for the taxpayers of this country. We built the bridges they want to Occupy, we build the buildings they want to pollute, Starbucks and McDonald’s hires people and allows that person to pay bills and taxes. ( I hate taxes and think the IRS should be ignored.) We should all (taxpayers) boycott IRS.
Report Post »Occupybaggers should go home get real jobs and stop sucking off of a hand out by the FEDS, Unions, Soros, etc. We out number them so we should put a stop to all the nonsense.
barber2
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:24amAdbusters the group which started the Occupy Movement is an anti-capitalist activist group. Part of the International Left behind all of this here and the revolutions all over.
Report Post »Stiggs
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:40am…and their point is?
The OCCUPY movement was already proven to be one of the biggest disappointments to the liberals – a HUGE failure to perform claimed by Nancy Pelosi to be the Democrats’ response to the TEA party. Elizabeth Warren claimed to be the creator of the movement’s fundamentals until the violence started then she back-peddled as fast as her little legs could go. Lerner/SEIU lamented that the TEA party surpassed the OCCUPY movement as the true grassroots movement in America – a national mass of members acting without any formal leadership as a single unit working for the rights of the individual.
You’ve already lost – shutting down a city does nothing. We’ll all take the day off and relax then, we‘ll see who’s on the march on ELECTION DAY.
But, that’s just my take on it.
Report Post »grimmy
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:34amIts funny that these commie idiots will generally only occupy major cites such as New York, L.A,,San Diego, D.C. etc…All liberal cities, all have very strick gun laws.They do this because they know that they can destroy businesses personal property such as cars, ect… with impunity,because all the liberal mayors and governors just love these people.Wish these pos’ would try this here in Texas,so we could show the rest of the nation what happens to these slime bags when the get out of hand…….
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:49amI think it’s a great idea!! It couldn’t happen to a nicer city! Hehehehe!
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:07amExactly Correct, in the Laurel Highlands we say…
Go ahead, MAKE MY DAY
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:07amLOL! Wouldn’t it be fun to watch a bunch of miscreants try to stop the flow of traffic over the Brazos in Waco? Most of them would wind up in the hospital having cowboy boots removed from their rectums.
Report Post »TexasKnight
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:33amRicco should work great. If the illegal actions occur with the union backing, bankrupt them!
Report Post »I may even show up with mace and accidentally set some off.
sandmannc40
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:31amI wonder if Union members will be paid to strike on the country? Would that be a violation of the plan they made with Obama? If this does happen, where is the Government protecting us from these criminals? Time for the return of the TEA PARTY and ousts these do nothings in Congress. If you are collecting Obama welfare (unemployment) should you protest? Isn’t that biting the hand that feeds you?
Report Post »joe alexich
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:29amknow the truth get GBTV and see who and why this is done.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:37amWE already know that thanks to Glenn….
Report Post »dawghowse
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:25amI don’t mind someone protesting….but to block anyone else from doing what they need or want to is illegal. They should be arrested and fined heavily. If they can’t pay put them in chain gangs cleaning up the citys.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:17amAll I can say is I am sooooo glad I don’t live in that cess pool ( no offense to the patriots of NYC )!!!
Report Post »happ77
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:25pmTheres a patriot left in NYC ???
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