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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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  • JJ

    Careful They’re desperate for their Kent State moment, and we can’t afford to give it to them. Kudos to the police and safety personnel so far in walking the fine line between firmness and violence.

  • TeaPartyLeader

    Limbaugh became a supporter once he heard that there were lots of drugs in the OWS camps.

  • NoFear

    Could you ever imagine anything even remotely resembling this happening under Mayor Giuliani??

    I don’t think so.

    This is not “Freedom to Assemble”. There’s nothing in the Bill of Rights about occupying public property.

    Break out the pepper spray, rubber bullets and water cannons. These people are inciting violence and should be dealt with swiftly and harshly.

    Bloomberg is a POS.

    • Dee Richard

      I often wondered that too. I think Giuliani would have put a stop to it. I think he handled the 911 situation great and had pride in his city. But I didn’t live there, just an observation.

      • Nan

        can we have an emergency election and get Giuliani back as our Mayor?? We need someone with experience and courage.

  • not sure

    A lot of silly old fools is what I see in this video. Failed hippies, failed human beings and their idiot offspring.

  • Dan

    They should try Occupying Reality!

  • jilly

    Brought to you by George Soros. Oh, hush! No one is supposed to talk about the puppet-master of Obama, the main stream media and OWS.

  • Jerry Brant

    I am sure New York’s finest will be able to deal with the warfare of this terrorist group. This group is anti-american.

  • jnsesq

    How does one have a two-month anniversary again? Oh, Marxist math…

  • Bob Forsberg

    The people of New York City should stop paying their taxes, since the City of New York has clearly stopped picking up the garbage on the streets.

  • J

    They are a misguided bunch of 60′s wannabees

  • Steven Travis

    So these communist parasites want to burn NYC and Macy’s. If or one cannot wait for each one of these sub-humans to drop dead. Here let me help you.

  • TeaPartyLeader

    If the lamestream media will pay more attention to Ron Paul, then I can promise you that all teabaggers on the east coast will attend, if OWS can handle an extra 500 senior citizens!

  • Barney Frank

    Flush the Obamabaggers with a fire hose. Make them embrace soap.

  • mark

    So TSA can ‘frisk’ little girls for our security but someone wanting to firebomb a major department store in New York isn’t worth their time?

  • trbrown

    let the ass whoopins begin. New Yorkers know how to take care of a problem!!!!

  • Dan in Twin Cities

    They have BECOME the 1%.

    I hope the rest of America is wise enough to see it.

  • http://ny9solyndra.wordpress.com NY9Solyndra

    I’ll bet most of the negative comments on OWS are from intelligent people and most of the supportive comments are from dumb people.

    • jnsesq

      Second that, NY9. ;-)

    • Peter

      I Second That As Well……

      • CaWIllie

        And me also. I had to work for what I have starting by washing dishes at a buck an hour in the 60′s. This brats refuse to start with $10/Hr jobs as that is not enough for them to get new iToys every few months. Pooor babys.

    • Ding Chavez

      Any group that starts spouting dangerous rhetoric like the molotov comment needs to be prepared for the consequences if their actions even begin to approach violence. That hammer will come down real hard.

      • pennhead

        I do hope the authorities plan to handle that in the manner you suggest. We’ve tolerated this crap for about 2 months too long as it is.

      • Bill Lee

        I agree Ding. Can’t stand people who think their point of view is so important they will destroy other peoples property. This is worse than the system we have now that has inequalities but at least allows us freedom to move to where jobs exist. I know some places are really hurting for jobs but it is the government excessive regulations that is huriting the economy.

    • shrugged

      I triple seocond that NY9

    • AnimalFarm

      Well said, you took the words right out of my mouth (or keyboard)!

    • Il Bui

      CORRECT NY9!

    • AnimalFarm

      You took the words right out of my mouth (or keyboard)!

    • Greenhorn

      I’ll see your Intelligent people and raise you: negative comments from freedom loving Americans, and positive comments from socialists.

  • Cathy

    Obama/Soros’s occupoopers turning more violent. We can thank our Marxist-in-Chief for this mess, he owns them.

  • stace

    I guess the liberaltards et al have given up trying to compare this goon squad to the Tea Party, nice try retards…Barry and Pelosi et all identify with this group of do nothings, they are the demotard constituents. I hope they do try to burn something or destriy things…do it cowards, don’t have a hummingbird ass with an alligator mouth.

  • Ron Eckler

    This is what Obama said he supports. Community organizing in its extreme has been on display for all America to see and react in disgust for months. The Communist in Chief is responsible for starting and fueling the rabid occupations. These are his Obamavilles of this generation. They will make history like Hoovervilles in the 1930″s. Wear it well. It will be Obama’s legacy and he deserves it

  • RightStuff

    I wonder of those peopel kiss their mothers with those dirty mouths of theirs.

  • TeaPartyLeader

    Real protesters dress up like revolutionary soldiers and demand Obama’s birth certificate! These punks don’t know what they’re doing!

    • FEDhater

      Troll

  • Dennis D

    Yeah but the Tea Party is Angry and Dangerous huh? Thats the false message left wing media tried to push

  • RobGal

    This is what COMMUNITY ORGANIZING (Sol Alinsky style) is all about. Gee, do we know anyone in the present administration who was a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER 9in and around the Chicago area) before he was elected to the Senate?

  • Dunce Biden

    OWS — fight the evil 1% like Michael (the fatty) Moore with his mansion on a Michigan lake and ritzy Park Ave NYC flat and Nancy (the botoxed) Pelosi with her sweetheart insider trading deal for $M’s on the Visa IPO. Both of these liars are the essence of “the 1%” but… they are LEFTISTS, so…. nevermind.

    OWS – face your fears of SOAP and WORK. Shake off your filth. Take a bath. Put away your fantasies of utopian pigpens, and head to the light… come to the light… of Capitalism – the best system ever invented. Long live Capitalism! Anyone but Obama the lying non-stop-vacationing, illegal-loving job-killing country destroyer in 2012.

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