Down at Time Square with MoT - We will be live blogging for the next few hours as thousands start to gather in Times Square - Will be updating with photos - comments every 15 minutes starting now.
1:47 am. Protesters just arrive back at liberty square from Washington square.
occupiers arrive from Washington sq
2:05 am going to post all the videos and pictures of the crowd tomorrow. I am going to go lie down. We are doing this really low tech. Thank you I will post a better update in the morning. Hard to get everything uploaded and can't get much wireless right now. Thank you everyone for following and we will keep you updated. This has been one of the most meaningful in my life. This is beautiful. This is real and wevare crashing the gates in real and epic way. Goodnight
4:05 Pm: Cops are starting to close off the streets and set up barricades around the park. Parents for Occupy Wallstreet are starting to gather in front of ToysRUs4:13 Pm: Protesters are starting to gather in Time square - marching has begun from all corners of the city
5:30 sorry I had massive connection issues with my mobile hotspot. Crowd is over f
lowing. Code pink is here and the crowd is full if teachers
5:49. Crowd is chanting whos streets - our streets.
People are still filing in and looks like police have given up on trying to get people to keep walking.
Parents gather before march on Times Square
4:28 Pm : Overheard conversation from police officer : "This is it. This is a revolution and were here for it.
4:34: cops directing anyone walking on the sidewalks to keep going or they risk being locked in - we are almost locked.
4:50 Hundreds gather in sealed off area chanting occupy wallstreet - protesters starting to walk around in a circle chanting "we are the 99 percent
5:55 - Crowd is divided into sections. Getting texts that police are setting up dragnets to catch protesters trying to join. Whole crowd just burst into star spangled banner.
6:00 MoT just got on a portable amp and did a mic check saying "we are your teachers - we answer your phones - we guard you when you sleep
6:10 trying to get video up soon - huge circle has formed in the middle of the protest with people chanting new York - time square occupy everywhere. This is amazing. The feeling going through he crowd is of peace
6:19. Crowd is chanting banks got bailed out - we got sold out. Losing my voice from chanting. Mic check - people suggesting starting sit in. MoT and I just joined in. Hundreds sitting now in our section
6:25 sit in crowd just sang the star spangled banner as the sun begins to set in the sky.
6:35. Tried to get video photos to upload by my hotspot hates us. We will post a ton of stuff stuff from today. A mArching band with tubas a d trumpets just passed us. The sun has set and things are still peaceful. Just got word that 10 are dead in Yemen and occupy Berlin is being raided. Word in also that several subway stations are being occupied,
6:50. Energy in the crowd is amazing!! I can not wait to hear how many people th
NYPD will say is here. Seems likes over 10,000 here and it keeps swelling. Overheard in the crowd : I am here with 20,000 of my best friend
7:03. Young people holding signs saying we want union jobs. Code punk has a giant banner. Seeing union hats and ex marines in the crowd. Just debated a wing nut who says the 9 9 9 plan is great. I schooled him with Glass Steagal and Keynesian economics. Everyone in crowd now sitting. Hundreds or thousands now sitting in near silence.
7:10 mic check just called. General assemble is being called in the heart of times square.
Calls to remain as long as possible going up. Word from the crowd is there thousands upon thousands in Madrid and London right now in solidarity with OWS.
7:25. Trumpets playing we are the 99 percent. Lost my voice. Calls going up to march march march march to Washington square. Meet you there Washington square. All crowd moving. Cops mobilizing around the protests.
7:30 cop saying if we do not leave now we face arrest. People chanting to keep
marching but we are still penned in.
7:39 mic checks from the crowd calling for non -violent march and to not yell at the cops. Huge chant going up saying FUCK fox news.
7:55 crowd is starting to disperse. Local channel 11 reporter said we were angry mob. Might be last update for an hour cause my phone is dying. Will be posting pictures by then. Cops are filling the squares directing people to leave. Chanting going up to march still to Washington square. Next update will show photos videos. This like all these events have been humbling. This is our time says the Levi jeans ad right next to us - only we mean it in a very different sense right now
8:15 Walking through the crowd and witnessed several people getting arrested. Cops decided to start funneling people into police vans.'
Big update coming in a few min. Got to a charger and got my old lab top working. For up to the minute blogging join my fellow blogger and friend OllieGarkey who is continuing the coverage for me as I charge my equipment.
WeAreTheOther99 Continuing Coverage
I will be heading back to the park in an hour and will be live blogging from Liberty Square with updates every 25 minutes. Next post will have pictures/video of all that we have been witnessing.
10:43 Here is some video from the heart of the crowd. The following took place during the day. The next up to date live coverage will be in about an hour or so. For now I will continue to upload from the events of this historic day. A day in which the whole world decided they would not stand for the inequality. A day in which over a thousand protests took place and we witnessed the beginning or middle but not the end of something that has been a long time coming in this country.
Before they came.
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