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Busy Weekend Planned For Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Protesters To Hold 'Festive Party' In TImes Square Saturday

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Members of Occupy Wall march on Broadway during a celebration march after learning that they can stay on Zuccotti Park in New York, October 14, 2011. (Photo credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

Members of Occupy Wall march on Broadway during a celebration march after learning that they can stay on Zuccotti Park in New York, October 14, 2011. (Photo credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – It looks like it will be a busy weekend for Occupy Wall Street protesters, with marches and other events set throughout the day Saturday, including a “party” in Times Square.

So far, the weekend’s plans to occupy parts of Manhattan haven’t changed despite clashes between protesters and police Friday morning.

After the scheduled clean up of Zuccotti Park was postponed, demonstrators took to the streets with brooms, flags and signs and started fanning out around the city.

There were several arrests reported around the New York Stock Exchange as well as reports of violence breaking out near Bowling Green and Beaver Street.

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Nevertheless, Occupy Wall Street seems to be going ahead with their scheduled plans.

According to their website, they’re preparing a “Mass March on the CHASE Bank” Saturday morning.

They’re planning to close their accounts with the bank and transfer the money to worker-owned banks and credit unions.

Part of the reason they’re targeting CHASE, according to the site, is what they call “irresponsible behavior” by the bank. That includes, according to site, sacking “14,000 employees since receiving a bailout of $94.7 billion.”

The site says the rally cry for the march will be “Move your money, CHASE’s money is our money!”

The website says demonstrators are then planning a noon rally and anti-war march to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, proclaiming “Wall Street Is War Street.”

At 4 p.m., that group is set to march to the recruitment center in Times Square.

That will be followed by a plan to “Occupy Times Square” at 5 p.m. Saturday.

According to the site, the function in Times Square will be a party “in the festive sense of the word.”

“From our street carnival in Times Sq. we will take the protest party to the trains and head downtown,” reads a statement on the site organizing the Times Square gathering.

According to a separate website about the event called theoccupationparty.com, “This Saturday at 5pm we take: Times Square…with music, performance and a message that the people of this country – not the banks, not the corporations – hold the true power.”

The site is also calling on participants to wear white as “a symbol of hope and transition.”

Afterwards, the group plans to “Occupy The Subway” and head back downtown.

What do you think of all the marches and demonstrations? Sound off below in our comments section…

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  • Early Ardmore

    It’s the privately owned Federal Reserve that prints money out of nothing and then lends it back to Americans at interest that is the enemy.

    Until this is understood nothing will change.

    http://911essentials.com

  • Art Agel

    I don’t get it.

    They’re protesting Wall Street for the war. Last I looked, a road in NYC was not the Commander in Chief.

    They’re not protesting Obama who is actually conducting those wars – and actually started several like the ones in Libya, Yemen and Pakistan?

    Yah…sry, but you liberals are grasping at straws again.

    • Richard Henkle

      Yessir, and don’t forget Iran under a false-flag

  • Annie Fields

    Uh… Not convinced the aggregate of their withdrawals will matter a nickel in the grand scheme of things to Chase, but at least THIS act of protest is rooted in some kind of sensible thought. The rest of it? Gosh, imagine what it might do for them if, instead of wrecking everything, everywhere they are, they walked around with trash bags, not only picking up after themselves, but OTHERS. PLANTING things rather than RUINING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS of landscaping, HANDING OUT BOTTLES OF WATER to the HOMELESS… you know… DOING SOME FRICKIN’ GOOD?????????????

    Oh… wait… that’s Tea Party. The only mass movement in the history of the civilized world to ever organize under the banner of demanding LESS from government not more.

    Nevermind.

    http://www.anniefields.com/blog

    • Timothy Dannenhoffer

      See, you’re SO STUPID you don’t realize you are being USED by the waelthy and big business interests to protest LESS taxes FOR THEM and LESS government FOR YOU.

      You are basically doing their dirty work for them – YOU are just a pawn that they will discard if and when they have their way.

      SSTTUUPPIIIDD..

      Make NO mistake – YOU ARE STUPID.

  • Art Agel

    I don’t get it.

    They’re protesting Wall Street for the war. Last I looked, a road in NYC was not the Commander in Chief.

    They’re not protesting Obama who is actually conducting those wars – and actually started several like the ones in Libya, Yemen and Pakistan?

    Yah…sry, but liberals are grasping at straws again.

    • Timothy Dannenhoffer

      Yeah stupid old man Art or stupid Art with an old man’s name – because the wars are the ONLY thing they have a grievance about, right?

      • Tommy

        Timothy you are one hateful and ignorant LIEberal.

  • stop2think

    That is an ambitious agenda. One thing I do not see on the agenda, “Got to work 8 hours to pay my debts”…oh, that’s right they rather suck the teat of America.

    • Jerome

      Correct you are.

  • KENYAN OCCUPYING THE WHITE HOUSE

    “ALL WE ARE SAYING… IS GIVE WEED A CHANCE”

  • James Norden

    “Move your money, CHASE’s money is our money!” -

    Factually incorrect, dummies.

  • carolina

    Full Force Fire hoses, turn on the hydrants, spray with Simple Green, Lice, bedbug, flea and other varmint killers and clean up the place.. New York, you see where your “tolerance and open-minded” gets you? How do you like it now? SOROS’ USEFUL IDIOTS..drinking the drug-laced Kool-aid and cheering as they do.. what a bunch of losers! If I had any sympathy for the original principles and ideas, it has all disappeared now.. they are just scum of the Earth.

  • ALBERT DAILEY

    Bloomberg, call in the National Guard

    • Timothy Dannenhoffer

      Yeah just like retarded rightwingers, wanting to bring in the fascist Nazi stormtroopers because people are practicing their Constitutional rights to assemble and protest. You PINHEAD.

      • Tommy

        Timothy you LIEberal. Who are you calling Nazi Stormtroopers? The National Guard is composed completely of YOUR NEIGHBORS? You are one heck of a clown regurgitating all that baloney you spew.

        • Timothy Dannenhoffer

          So if you were a German citizen in Nazi Germany and Hitler told you he had to kil l Jews to make things better you’de be totally on board wouldn’t you? You’re stupid.

  • Shane

    The fawning coverage of the OWS protest is sickening. If anyone ever needed more proof of Big Media’s bias, this is it. Will CBS be sending pizzas over on Saturday along with cameras and reporters eager to stand with the protesters? Shame on you CBS.

    • Timothy Dannenhoffer

      Fawning coverage? They were completely ignored by the media for the first 3 weeks you stupid buffoon. IT IS a story – DEAL WITH IT.

  • mike buxbaum

    Yes!! I’ve seen it somewhere. Equality, Social Justice, Wealth must be shared; Oppressed workers of the world unite! Oh- yes. Soviet Union gone through this I believe. What killed them is the luck of economic greed. It was total equality. Everyone made the same money. Eventually no one cared to work anymore. The country fell apart.
    Instead of wasting time, these people should be looking for jobs and or improving their work skills, so they can get a job.
    Take it from me. I came from this social experiment called Soviet Union 30 years ago with 6 dimes in my pocket. I kiss this country’s ground every time I remember where I came from.

    • poorhardworker

      Glad to have you, Mike! And you are so right about what this all sounds like…either Communism or Fascism…take your pick.

  • Ben

    I wonder how many of these people actually vote in every primary and general election. If they do not, or can’t be bothered to, then they are a joke, and they deserve whatever self perceived injustice they feel slighted by, and they lose all credibility for their argument (which is already an incoherent mess) and their frustrations. I bet the excuse for not voting, for those that do not, is that doing so is pointless, because their vote doesn’t have any effect.

  • John P Hathaway

    “We have accepted today the existence in perpetuity of a permanent underclass of scores of millions who cannot cope and must be carried by society — fed, clothed, housed, tutored, medicated at taxpayer’s expense their entire lives. We have a dependent nation the size of Spain in our independent America. We have a new division in our country, those who pay a double or triple fare, and those who ride forever free.” Pat Buchanan

  • Cartman

    Chase is surely quaking in fear – of course, none of these easily led idiot anarchist wanna be’s HAVE any bank accounts! Maybe their mommys and daddys will close theirs.

  • ALBERT DAILEY

    OCCUPY-URANUS, A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES BITING THE HANDS THAT FEED THEM

  • detroyes

    If this were a Tea Party demonstration, there wouldn’t be a mess (nor any clashes with police)

    • Eric

      tea party “protest” are more like picnics, its more of a family event and it happens over one or two days, usually a weekend because tea party folks got jobs and responsibilities.

      • Timothy Dannenhoffer

        Ever stop to consider they are protesting because they WANT a good job and CANNOT find one? You IMBECILE.

  • Todd

    Try occupying a farking JOB, fleabaggers.

  • nunya

    Ahh yes. protesting because lifes unfair. Idiots

  • nubbie

    They should be protesting in Washington. They are responsible for the mess we are in. The trouble with these folks is that they are ignorant of facts–just fueled on and paid by union organizers. If they want to be like socialist Europe, go there. You can get a free ride. obama and the Dems must be joyous right now.

    • Timothy Dannenhoffer

      It’s INEVITABLE that things will change and YOU will be on the wrong side of history with all other idiotic conservatives. Mark my words. WE WILL “become like Europe” – it’s the SMARTEST, MOST COST EFFECTIVE WAY. And EVERYONE has an opportunity.

      • amabO kcuF

        Lunatic. The rioting is worse in many places in Eurpoe. Socialism only works until you run out of other peoples money.

        EFFING TOOL

        • Timothy Dannenhoffer

          Nice regurgitated talking point pinhead.

  • John

    I think I need to go ‘Occupy’ a bathroom stall, immediately

    • Terby

      Or a shower!!!

  • Nick

    Let me get this straight. A few useless non-working para sites has a Right to remove from me and how many other people, the Right to enjoy NYC on the weekend? No, these free loading b u ms are not really Fascist Dictators, no, really.

  • Nick

    Let me get this strai ght. A few useless non-working parasites has a Right to remove from me and how many other people, the Right to enjoy NYC on the weekend? No, these free loading b u ms are not really Fascist Dictators, no, really.

  • Darius

    The fault, dear protesters, is not in the rich people, but in yourselves that you are underlings!

  • E

    John, you missed the point !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • john

    so when do they clean up the mess that they have made?

    • MaryA

      THEY don’t! The cities where they’ve chosen to stage a live-in will be required to use taxpayer dollars to clean up their fleabag mess. This is what Obama & Pelosi condones? Losers!

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