Occupy Wall Street, reports from the field

... though I need to go off in RL shortly.

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Not much!!

Guerrilla.

Direct link: http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

News scroll says there are reports of Twitter censoring #OccupyWallStreet.

Blog tracking Occupy Wall Street info, reports, etc. Also Day of Rage.

TWITTER BLOCKING TRENDING FOR OCCUPY WALL STREET DEMONSTRATON FEED.
There are several reports that Twitter is blocking trending for #OccupyWallSt.

"OccupyWallSt Occupy Wall St.
@maureendutton1 just the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet is being blocked from trending so it won't get on the front page"

So it would appear that the #OccupyWallStreet is changing strategies to get around the blockage of Twitter.
"OccupyWallSt Occupy Wall St.
Remember the Internet (communication) is half of the battle these days so if you can't be there spread everything you can. #Sep17"
OccupyWallSt Occupy Wall St.
#TakeWallStreet will fully develop by afternoon.

It appears the censoring by Twitter is to prevent it from getting on the front page.

Here. Roseanne Barr!

http://twitter.com/15octobernet/status/115193868537958400

Bold, persistent experimentation!

Not to be churlish, but a counter-narrative would start with that. Surely doable from photos, tweets, markings on the street...

http://twitter.com/tasemram/status/115270760569909249

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The comments are interesting. For me, it boils down to "It's a start." It took the Egyptians 4 years and labor was involved. The comments are interesting

Ceaseless experimentation!

Pictures here.

I think the story is this is happening. As it turns out, Manhattan is not Cairo is not Madrid is not London. Who knew? We have to try, they're trying, good for them, and self-indulgence seems to be at a minimum. FDR:

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach. We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!

Truer words. And there's no experimentation going on anywhere else. Except to invent new forms of looting and degradation, of course.

NOTE Here's the Daily News coverage.

See danps here partway down. One data point:

If possible, try to find examples of the “people’s mic” technique, where the entire group repeats after speaker to amplify sound.

This reminds me of the chants in Tahrir Square, for which I cannot find an adequate category in Sharp's taxonomy. These chants, being adapted to circumstances, are a product of, as it were, "situational awareness" and are sophisticated communications devices, very unlike the 60s-style "Hey hey..." chants, designed to produce, as it were, unit cohesion.

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Although I insist that the crowd count is not the story, rather "bold persistent experimentation" is, I'd still be interested to see where danps's thousands estimate comes from.

pointed out that Wall Street is, in fact, symbolic at this point. The high frequency, computer trading run by the big banks and hedge funds all takes place in what i assume is a drab industrial park in Mahwah, New Jersey.

Step down Obama!

Kos.

TPM.

And, amazingly, or not, a Middle East financial site scores an interview with one of the many organizers, unlike our famously free press:

Americans call for Tahrir-like protest on Wall Street
Organizer Justin Wedes, however, said sparking a movement against corporate dominance is more important than any one demand.

"I think the purpose of September 17th, for many of us who are helping to organize it and people who are coming out, is to begin a conversation, as citizens, as people affected by this financial system in collapse, as to how we're going to fix it, as to what we're going to do in order to make it work for us again," Wedes has been quoted by various media as saying.