Today OWS demonstrators are staging a 24 hour protest outside the Mayors Townhouse. I hope that there will be no more violence directed towards the 99% demonstrators.
The demonstration began at 2pm this afternoon. Watch the livestream downstream. A show of force by the police has forced the demonstrators to march continuously while playing their instruments.
local coverage from CBS news
Via gothamist.com
Mayor Bloomberg's deep, sacred bond with the First Amendment will be tested today at 2 p.m. when Occupy Wall Street's drummers will begin a 24-hour "JAM SESSION" outside his townhouse mansion on East 79th Street. A release proclaims, "Tie-dye, didgeridoo, hackeysack welcome! No shirt, no shoes, no problem! And if you don't have talent, don't worry: FREE DRUM LESSONS offered! Also on offer: collaborative drumming with the police!" Nothing makes that bass drum boom like a baton.
Via The Daily News
City Hall officials would not say if the billionaire mayor was home to hear the commotion. They shutdown of E. 79th street was standard during past protests of the mayor’s house.
“A Fifth Avenue setup is typically used for protests like this, and long has been,” said spokesman Stu Loeser.
Protesters whose encampment at Zuccotti Park was demolished last week vowed to keep up the drumming for 24 hours — until 2 p.m. Monday.
Via NBC
"Let's occupy the park at 79th Street and have a love-in and serenade Mayor Mike," the page says.
Organizer John Penley said protesters want to get as close to Bloomberg's house as the police let them. Authorities have them penned in on the side of Fifth Avenue closest to Central Park.
Zuccotti Park was cleared early Tuesday morning after a surprise sweep led by the mayor, who said the decision to clear the park was "mine, and mine alone."
Mayor Bloomberg does not reveal his whereabouts on the weekend, and did not have anything listed on his public schedule for Sunday.
Read more:http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/134204208.html
From the NewYorkPost
Protesters had hoped to drum in front of the billionaire mayor's Upper East Side residence but police directed them to a pen nearby on the Central Park side of Fifth Avenue.
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A pen. Welcome to the freedom pens. We are back to the point where we have free speech zones. Where demonstrators are herded into shelters where they can freely engage in their constitutional rights. It is abursd that this is what our city has become. Where the NYPD must shelter the 1 percent. Mayor Bloomberg - The NYPD are not your personal mercenaries. They should not be for sale. Not for Chase or any other private entity.
This is the NYC I remembered during the 2004 republican convention. The NYPD I remembered from the Iraq war protests. They can not evict an idea or stop demonstrators from being able to speak truth to power. Mayor Bloomberg continues to spout right wing republican talking points in response to legitimate questions
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