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OWS Protesters Calling For 3-Course Meal Of Demonstrations Thursday Throughout NYC

'Day Of Action' Will Involve 'Good-Sized' Numbers, Impacting All 5 Boroughs

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Protesters celebrate after re-entering Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images)

Protesters celebrate after re-entering Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images)

Occupy Wall Street

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – It’s not over yet. In fact, it may be just beginning.

New York City leaders are warning that thousands of protesters could converge on Manhattan on Thursday. The NYPD is now getting ready for the next stage of “Occupy Wall Street” protests, reports CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer.

Photos: Police Raid Zuccotti Park

It may have looked peaceful at Zuccotti Park during what was a soggy Wednesday afternoon, but city officials are sounding alarm about Thursday, warning of mass disruptions in all five boroughs.

And it may not be pretty.

“We are certainly anticipating tens of thousands of people protesting, aimed at significant disruptions of the lives of the people of this city,” Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said.

WCBS 880′s Rich Lamb reports from City Hall


It was an unusual impromptu press conference called by City Hall to share intelligence about an international “day of action” by Occupy Wall Street on the movement’s two-month anniversary. Deputy Mayors Cass Holloway and Wolfson said they expect it to be big, but they said the NYPD is ready.

“Make no mistake, public safety is first and foremost, and we have to ensure that the city can run. People need to drive down the streets and use essential services,” Holloway said.

1010 WINS’ John Montone reports


“Any time you have a situation in which you are anticipating tens of thousands of people protesting on a massive scale, you take it seriously and our forces will be deployed accordingly,” Wolfson added.

Already angry over their eviction from Zuccotti Park, the protesters are planning breakfast, lunch, and dinner protests on Thursday:

The breakfast plan is to “shut down” Wall Street. It’s all expected to start with a rally in Liberty Square starting at 7 a.m. to “put an end to Wall Street’s reign of terror.”

“We’re going to march on Wall Street and shut down the New York Stock Exchange,” protester Patrick Bruner told CBS 2′s Sean Hennessey on Wednesday night.

“We do hope to stop people getting to work. We do hope to stop the stock exchange from functioning, but we don’t hope to do it in a crazy wild-eyed way,” added Austin Guest.

The lunch menu will feature protesters looking to “occupy” the subways in all five boroughs. They plan on gathering at 16 subways stations to take their message to the trains.

And dinner is set up as a takeover of Foley Square, followed by a march to the Brooklyn Bridge.

LISTEN: 1010 WINS Glenn Schuck reports


Bill Dobbs is one of the organizers.

“Tomorrow is going to be a day of action around the city,” Dobbs said. “I’m looking forward to going after wall street and also galvanizing public support and awareness of what we’re about.”

The organizers and those at Zuccotti Park on Wednesday offered few details of what they’re going to do, but when Kramer asked Dobbs how many he was expecting, he was only partially coy.

“I think there will be good-sized numbers tomorrow,” he said. “I think the message is really about who gets what in this country. We are the 99 percent. Who gets the safety net? And who gets thrown under the bus?”

To be sure, there is lingering resentment about Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to evict Occupy Wall Street, but it’s unclear if that anger will be on display Thursday.

“Awful, unconscionable, the mayor and police commissioner do that for a long while. Like other people in power, they think if they get rid of the protesters, they will also get rid of the cause,” Dobbs said.

City officials have refused to say how close they will let the protesters get to their main targets, but they insisted they’re ready for anything.

 OWS Protesters Calling For 3 Course Meal Of Demonstrations Thursday Throughout NYC

Occupy Wall Street day of action poster (credit: occupywallst.org)

The OWS website says similar days of action are also planned at Occupy sites around the country and around the world.

After Tuesday’s raid of Zuccotti Park that cleared it of tents, sleeping bags and tarps, protesters marched to Foley and Duarte Square where they distributed a poster about Thursday’s day of action.

LISTEN: WCBS 880′s Peter Haskell reports


City leaders who were against the raid at Zuccotti are also set to participate.

While the official movement is planning its day of action, other individuals seem to be making plans of their own.

In a video posted on YouTube after protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park, a demonstrator in the crowd says “On the 17th, we’re going to burn New York City to the ground.”

Warning: Graphic Language – Watch the video below:

Later in the video, he then goes on to say “No more talking. They’ve got guns, we’ve got bottles. They’ve got bricks, we’ve got rocks…in a few days you’re going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do to Macy’s.”

The official movement is calling for only non-violent action during its marches and rallies on Thursday.

What do you think about the OWS day of action? Sound off below in our comments section…

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  • macaulaytippins

    hi – is it just me !! can any one explain why when i type in the bing browser “anti-strib.com” i get a different site yet whe i type it in google its ok? could this be a bug in my system or is any one else having same probs ?
    maca

  • Fedvupmwith hypocrites

    OWS does not represent the 99%. I am part of they 99% and you don’t represent me or the people I work with. In order for you to be part of the 99%, you have contribute by working, voting and paying taxes. Most of you can’t find work because you don’t wants what’s available. If it were not for others that support you like your parents you would actually starve. There are the 1%, the 99% and there is OWS that represent the 0% because that what you contribute.

  • Mark

    Are the people anti-OWS the same people who LOVE your stupid “Living Large” segments???

  • Mary Ann Lorenz

    I fullu support the protesters! They are expressing my sentiments and bringing the need to change our corrupt system to light.

  • SokrMom

    The OWS protesters ARE “the people of this City”–among others. If you can’t be bothered by efforts to right 30 years of right-wing pandering to the rich while destroying everything that created the great American middle class, such as unions and pensions, then you are either in the 1% or deserve what you are, at present, getting.

    • Fed up with hypocrites

      You really think unions are out for your benefit. They are out to get more members so they can get the dues. Do you really think the CEO of these Wall Street Companies sit on a massive pile on money under there bed. The pension and retirement fund make most of there gain thru investments like the market. Without the investments they would not be able to exist. Those profits that are so evil are actually propping up your 401k and pensions. The CEO have to answer to the share holders ex. Pension fund managers. The government would never be able to make up the difference if these fund did not invest in wall street.

  • Michelle Fontana

    Power to the movemetn–seems pretty clear to all now

  • Neverletacrisis…

    Hold on a sec – they want to burn NYC to the ground? Hell, take LA, Chicago and Detroit with it. No great loss there. They will be eating their own before it ends.

  • Jerry

    Freddie and Fannie are paying out millions of taxpayer dollars in bonuses to its top executives to waste more money and not a peep from OWS, Obama and democrats approved the Wall Street bailouts, where is the protests against them ?

  • Bob Forsberg

    American “occupied” streets are modeled after demonstrations we see within 3rd world countries of unemployed, unkept, misdirected agitators who have nothing else to do but cause ineffective chaos, while wasting and destroying our public resources.

    Obama, A Clear and Present Danger to America. “Hope & Change” at his best.

  • libertyville

    Welcome to the new normal. Welcome to the Obamanation. Savings depleted. Homes under water. Jobs scarce. Divisiveness and polarization across the land. Government of the few and the corrupt. Chaos on every front. Riots in the streets. What was the land of the free is now the land of the Barroke.

  • Kirk

    If you had all ignored them, they would have been gone by now. Instead, you are threatened by them, and your anger only makes them stronger.

    • cntrlfrk

      Just like terrorists, right?

  • Billybob

    As Capt. Kirk would say…”We come in peace! Shoot to Kill! Shoot to Kill! Shoot to Kill!

  • John T.

    “put on your marching shoes”
    – Chairman Mao Obama

  • cntrlfrk


    These Obama Brown-Shirts need to be treated as the Terrorists that they are.

    They seem to be so misinformed (or misled by Obama) that they think if they beat their drums loud enough, mutter enough 4 syllable chants, and destroy enough private property they will someday land high paying jobs.

    This so-called movement has never been anything more than Obama Campaign Astro-Turf.

  • WagTheDog

    Not too long ago Ms. “Napoleano” called Christians, Ron Paul supporters, and Tea Party folks (among others) TERRORISTS. Now that a nationwide movement has developed composed largely of anarchists and currently espousing such things as bombing Macy’s, where is Napoliano? Not a word from her or any other government official about the threats of violence coming from these crowds. If we can get through another year without a civil war, let’s be sure to remove the actor BO and all his sycophants like the beast Napoliano. Our country’s survival is at stake.

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