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Occupy Wall Street Holds Major Day Of Action In New York City (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Occupy Wall Street Holds Major Day Of Action In New York City (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Occupy Wall Street

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Occupy Wall Street’s “Day of Action” slowed down Thursday night, hours after a large numbers of protesters headed from Union Square to Foley Square before heading to the Brooklyn Bridge.

At the entrance to the bridge, a symbolic stand — 99 people sat in the street and were quickly arrested. They, however, were the only ones.

1010 WINS’ Al Jones Reports


As thousands flexed their message while crossing the city’s iconic landmark, they flashed signs and summoned the support of those traveling below, CBS 2′ s Sean Hennessey reported.

As the trek continued, so did the peacefulness of it all. Police were ready in case anyone jumped onto the road, much like they did just a month ago when the bridge was flooded with protesters. But Thursday night, they occupied just the walking path, and never challenged police.

Earlier, CBS 2′s Lou Young described the atmosphere inside Foley Square as “peaceful and festive.” Protesters also told Young that much of the violence and incidents that were highlighted from earlier in the day obscured the message of the movement.

Chopper 2 HD was keeping an eye on protesters as they marched toward Foley Square being shadowed by police officers on scooters. The police were trying to ensure that protesters stayed on the sidewalks and off of the streets.

Despite some widespread fears of protesters severely disrupting the New York City transit system, nothing of the sort transpired.  Protesters said they had no intention of disrupting subway service.

The group “99 New York” said they will be holding “subway speakouts.” According to the group, the speakouts will consist of unemployed and underemployed people telling their stories in the subway system.

“The Mayor’s office has been characterizing the Subway speakouts as an attempt to ‘shut down’ the subways. THIS IS FALSE. The Subway speakouts will not involve any attempt to disrupt subway operations,” the group said in a press release.

The clarification came after dozens of arrests in lower Manhattan at the beginning of Occupy Wall Street’s “Day of Action.”

About 250 people were arrested on Thursday and seven police officers were injured in clashes with demonstrators.

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  • joe_mamma

    come OWS be REAL PROTESTERS….don’t be outdone by the Chinese

    Man sets himself on fire in iconic Chinese square
    November 17, 2011 | 8:28 am

  • David

    This makes a lot more sense,

  • Frustrated

    When will these idiots realize that they do not speak for the 99% but for their own self serving agenda. I work hard and need to struggle but I am proud of wht I do and who I am. IUnfortunately they feel that by doing this they will get support but they are screwing the 99% more that the financial institutions ever have because they are taking our city hostage and jeapordizing our children. The difference between these idiots and the people protesting in other countries is that these idiots do it in luzury and with the safety of know ing they won’t be tortured and shot (as mouch as they want you to believe they are persecuted.) At least there support will wane after this idiotic move.

  • Ray Caldwell

    If they make me late for work…SOMEBODY is getting their arse kicked!

  • Meghan

    This is getting retarded.

  • David

    This is just plain stupd. Let the 99% go home.

  • SoSo

    “It’s all planned just in time for school dismissal and the evening rush.”

    “Bill Dobbs is one of the organizers of the day of action. He says the massive protest is meant to galvanize public support for the Occupy movement.”

    YOU JUST LOST MY SUPPORT WHEN YOU DECIDED TO BUT MY CHILDREN IN HARMS WAY.

  • netty611

    Sometimes when I read these posts, I simply can’t beleive what it written. People take you behinds off the chairs, look up from your computers and look around at your country. I know it’s the best there is in the world. The protesters are you and me people trying to keep it from being destroyed by human greed. If you lost your 401k after working for 10+ years because your company gave your job to another person sitting at a desk in another country, you would be angry to. Lazy? No. Professionals, White coller working class people pissed that your President handed out Millions of dollars for war and Millions of dollars to the Wall Street Bankers who should be in jail or on unemployment. Students who have to pay Student loans back and now have no jobs. While a student from another country gets free tuition. Maybe if your train is delayed or your bus is delayed and your drinking your latte’, you might think a little. Put your bat down and think. Your kids will grow and need jobs and homes. Where is it going to come from.? You should be supporting your fellow Protesters who are making “your” voice heard. Oh, yes, one more thing to Mak, Truth & Vivid, I do for now have a job. I am not a bum. I am a 58 year old woman in total support of making my country stronger and better.

    • donotlumpmein

      “The protesters are you and me”

      That right there is the problem – they don’t speak for everyone, they don’t speak for me – they speak to their multitude of agendas and while you may agree with it as is your right, don’t claim to speak for anyone else. If they have a coherent message bring it to the people who can affect change, don’t disrupt the lives of every day working people – the people they claim to speak for.

      • Chester West

        The O.W.S. protesters don’t speak for anybody other than O.W.S.’s top executives.

    • James Bong

      Thank you, Netty!

  • Pete

    We all know the real reason this is directed at “NYC” instead of Obama. It is because they voted for Obama and now they would feel stupid after their ‘history making’ choice. Instead they must blame ‘others’ as to not look foolish but still wreak havoc, to avoid the fact they are nothing more than anarchists.

  • Eileen

    It’s ridiculous!

    • Ellen

      Eo;een and stupid as well.

  • The Realist

    How does keeping ME off a train make money for THEM?

  • prettylady

    just like them to be stupid again, first of all you don’t let the world know where you are going and what you are planning to do. We will not let you shut down our city. So go home and leave us NY people alone. this is only going to let us hate you more. We get what you are trying to say but come on now lets do it the right way and maybe you should think to go to Washington where maybe someone can hear you. We are just trying to make a living and go to our job, oh you do know what that is right. Listen I work down wall street and have seen what you call a protester. Nothing but homeless as far as I can see so maybe you should go back to the drawing board and do it the right way this time. Making life hard for the 99% that work here is not the way to go. Trust me I am also the 99% .

  • Obamasllama

    Grab your hats and bats!!! Its time to knock some sense into these parasites and their Union goons.

    • CT Native

      So violence solves problems. Very sad (and sick).

    • Ha Ha

      You are absolutely right the 1 Billion dollar price tag for the U.S Presidency seat is just not enough, it should be 2 Billion.

  • Chester West

    Public transportation has no place in a great country like ours because REAL Americans drive everywhere. People who ride subways are worthless traitors.

    • Anon

      What the hell are you talking about? Have you ever been here before? Do you know what it like for parking? The nerve of you to come on here and sound like the narrow minded – uneducated bigot that you are.. grow up and open up a book.

      REAL Americans? Who are these “REAL” Americans you speak of?

    • kezinic

      You are obviously a very ignorant person who apparently have some emotional issues going with you. Seek help!!

    • Janet

      I take this to be ironic and humorous, not serious

    • Clark A

      Hey “Chester West”, have you ever been in NYC, regarding you saying, People who ride subways are worthless traitors! Again, have you ever been to NYC?

  • http://hallowedground.wordpress.com/ ken88

    Doing this to “galvanize public support “? Indeed it will, with the police. Strange how the “99%” seem to be the few hundred people who make trouble for tens of thousands of people. I’m the real 99%, a guy just trying to make it home after work. These carpet-baggers need to go back to to bo-dunks-ville, and leave NY to NYers. If they clog up the city, call in the National Guard, and fix bayonets!

  • Michael H.

    This is a misguided move by OWS. When the trains are delayed the 1% will just get in cabs.

    • NYC Girl

      The 1% never even bother taking the subway. It’s the 99% working class they are going to be bothering.

      • Michael H.

        They most certainly take the subway. I see it all the time at Grand Central. Get off the Metro North or Amtrak and head downtown on the subway. It’s often faster than heading outside to catch a cab.

      • kezinic

        The mayor supposedly takes the train. Ha ha! He’s the 1%. He won’t need a cab he will just send for his limo.

        • Really?

          Bloomberg is on the subway all the time. Shows what you know. For part of the “1%” he is certainly sensitive to the “99%”

        • Robert Richardson

          Limo? Screw that he will call in his helicopter

  • lvh

    This type of activity will only turn public opinion against them.
    Better go to D.C. and leave working people alone. They have jobs.

  • marcello

    Bring back Bull Coner and the dogs. Tase them. Do whatever is necessary to keep the subways running.
    And when they are arrested – (1) no desk appearances; hold them for the longest permitted time before sending them to a judge and (2) no bail for assaults on plice officers.

  • simon

    Subway when it is too crowded is very dangerous place to be.
    To create this condition in time for children going home is criminal.
    It is not too different from terrorist activity.
    Those OWS protesters, who would be involved such actions in subway, deserve to be pepper sprayed, arrested and prosecuted.
    They lost my sympathy with their cause the moment they endanger lives of other and especially of minors.

  • Paulina

    High pressure hoses work wonderfully!

  • DanTe

    Because only the 1% take the subway. 99% my arse. More like they represent 99% of the welfared parasites. The liberal majority.

  • mak

    Causing commuter delays is always a good way to get a New Yorker on your side. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

    Boy, you can tell these noobs aren’t from NY. They would know that New Yorkers even get mad at accident victims because they cause delays. What makes them think that this will win over our hearts?

    Stupes, all of them.

    • kezinic

      Mak, do you think we (New Yorkers) are really that cold? Contrary to popular beliefs we do have a heart.

  • truth

    those idiots need to get their lazy behinds to work!!! it’s just outrageous that their stupid uneducated cause will affect millions of honest hard-working new yorkers who rely on the subway system to go to work and go home!

  • Vivid

    What an idiotic move it is to disrupt the commute time of students and workers. This is not your opponent. The movement leaders have lost their minds.

    • James Bong

      You can WALK TO WORK, just like unemployed people who are looking for jobs must do. Oh, you might get your Gucci shoes dirty or wet…..what are you going to do when the General Strike comes?
      We’re not going away, because there is nowhere to go. And we won’t quit, because we have the same rights as you do, except the government won’t listen to us because it is too busy pandering to you. If you are a worker or a student, you understand that you need to join us to have a future worth having.

      • Andy

        No thank you, a future in which anybody who is hard working and has a job is considered a rich snob by people who spend their whole day sitting around on their asses doing nothing is not a future I consider worth having.

        • http://diaryofadivathebutterflychronicles.wordpress.com mochabutterflyqueen

          Amen Andy.

      • Pedro Cao

        I worked damm hard for my Gucci shoes, and I am not iin the so called 1% far from it, you are just a bunch of lazy Communist Anarchists that want everything handed to you, throwing a temper tandrum and messing up everyone’s day, you are not going to win

      • worker bee

        You’ve clearly got a lot of credibility, James “Bong” ….. How about you do something with your life instead of sitting around public parks smoking weed all day and asking for free sh!t. This whole OWS thing is a bunch of children that didn’t get disciplined by their P**SY A** parents growing up. Oh wait, they still haven’t grown up, they’d have a job if they did..

        I’m sick of hearing “Durrr there’s no jobs anywhere” Sh!t, get a lawn mower, wash some dishes. Work needs to be done somewhere, go look for it.

        • MichaelL

          Precisely.
          Here’s a great way to occupy the Subway: Get on a train to WORK, and then ride one BACK from your job to the home that you PAY for, with the money you EARN. Radical suggestion, I know; but it just. Might. Work.

          No jobs. Jesus H. If I lost my career tomorrow, I’d be working in ten days, flat. If nothing else, I’ll start my own business doing lawn care, or house sitting, or SOMEthing. Instead of living in Mom and Dad’s spare bedroom, whining.

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