marched across the Brooklyn Bridge. Occupy was joined by union workers after 5:00pm
Don't bother to look to Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS if you want to find out what happened yesterday at Occupy Wall Street New York, and 100 other cities internationally, on the "November 17 Day of Action".
News helicopter (Fox 5 ) video of the now- famous "We are the 99%" tone poem that was the laser light show broadcast on the side of the Verizon Building as thousands crossed the Brooklyn Bridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxG4g62rnd8
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http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/...py_wall_street
Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism
Retired New York Supreme Court Judge, legal observer at OWS, yesterday observes unwarranted police breaking of law and violence.
Note: legal observers wear neon-green hats to identify themselves, and are legally present and able to independently observe all arrest processes. They can go anywhere to observe.
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We are also joined by Stephen Graham, author of "Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism," and by retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, who worked as a legal observer Tuesday morning in New York after the police raided the Occupy Wall Street encampment.
"I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested... As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, 'I need to get in. My daughter's there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, 'Move on, lady.' And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying.
And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he throws her to the ground and starts hitting her in the head," says Smith. "I walk over, and I say, 'Look, cuff her if she's done something, but you don’t need to do that.’ And he said, 'Lady, do you want to get arrested?' And I said, 'Do you see my hat? I'm here as a legal observer.’ He said, 'You want to get arrested?' And he pushed me up against the wall." [includes rush transcript]
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