"How can we stay still and silent?" Happy Birthday Occupy Wall Street

1:24PM
I keep reading articles about how the protesters have kicked off their 1 year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street with multiple arrests. I have watched the youtube videos from the livestreams of these events and they were without provocation. The NYPD are singling out known leaders of the movement and pulling them out of the crowd and arresting them without explanation. Not only that but even with a court order to leave Zuccotti Park open, the NYPD have it heavily guarded and barricaded. 

An entire year of revolution and sometimes it feels a lot like less people care by the day. It is as if the worse and more obvious the atrocities get the more people want to disengage and pretend nothing at all is wrong. My plan to FINALLY get to NYC and actively participate was squashed once again by responsibility. I feel like I must represent a strong group of people too far away and too poor to get to a movement large enough to make a difference. No one is starting a movement in the Republican district of Toms River New Jersey, but one can continue to dream. How must it feel to the people who have been fighting these battles for 10 or 20 years. How can you keep trudging along when even people who should want to help, who you know agree with you, are too afraid of the repercussions to speak out. 

So many people tell me all the time to watch what I say, or only imply I should watch what I say, because they are even too afraid to say that. That is how I know wholeheartedly that there is a problem. The most average people fear that they themselves will be singled out by the police. The Occupy leaders, if there are such a thing, just taught the crowd how to make a peoples wall, being specific about how to protect your thumbs from being broken, which a cheery lovely blond girl saying, "Don't be afraid." Followed by the cutest protester I have ever seen. A little kid, younger than my son (6), lead the crowd in an "All Day All Week Occupy Wall Street". It is the most enthusiastic chant I have seen today. If we succeed, we will succeed for the children. 

3:34PM
Repeat after me:

Corporations can't have me and they can't have my money.

I am the media.

I have personally stopped using corporations except when necessary due to my financial situation, or lack of a local store to shop for that good. But I never pay full price for anything ever. I recommend you stop giving your money to corporations, period. It makes you feel better immediately. One person keeping their money from big banks and corporations doesn't make a big difference because we have so much less than the men of power with wealth. But if every person on our level took their money from Too Big Too Fail banks and stopped spending our hard earned money at corporations there would be a huge impact. This system only continues because we continue to participate. It is difficult to change. But nothing else can stop the path we're on aside from a violent rebellion. I believe the path to peace must start with peace.

It is never too late to change. But it becomes harder by the day. 

7:15PM 
Timcast just came back online. He's participating in a march from 1 Police Plaza. It is so hard to find out what is really going on when you are not at the protests. I feel that they always seem anti climactic without the resources of main stream media and their technology behind the coverage. Imagine if we had chopper images of all of the protests going on around the country. We need pirate media. 

7:32PM
Hundreds are filing into Zuccotti Park. The livestreams keep cutting out. Police are forcing people off of public sidewalks. Specifically the people with cameras. And the people in the park are barricaded in. No one is allowed in the park with bags or chairs. The park is supposed to be completely open to the public. Police deliberately inconvenience the locals and blame the disruptions on the Occupiers. 

Watch Timcast Live @ http://www.ustream.tv/timcast

Watch Luke Live @ http://www.ustream.tv/wearechange 

There is a stand off between an older woman and the NYPD. She claims, "she will not be moved."

The Keep It Moving control method the police are using remind me of being at the mall as a teenager. No standing still allowed. Only shopping. No socializing. Only shopping. 

"The only way to win is to be open and transparent. Communication and open dialog are the most important tools Occupy Wall Street has. In my opinion. " - Luke, We Are Change

A large number of people were not allowed in the park. Despite that there are still a sea of people in Zuccotti Park.

When it's dark at night and there aren't as many cameras that is when the police strike. They are aware of the cameras.

The protesters who all said they were going to bed early for the mornings exciting attempt to disrupt Wall Street were all awake well into the night. The march continued on well past 12am as the enthusiasm in the Occupiers remained empowered by the community of the people.


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