Occupy Wall Street Updates

• In Washington, anti-war and anti-corporate greed protesters accepted an offer by U.S. Park Police in the nation’s capital to extend by four months their permit to demonstrate. The protesters have spent the past four days camping in the Washington’s Freedom Plaza near the White House. October 2011/Stop the Machine has scheduled other marches and rallies throughout the week. Its permit had been set to expire on Monday and organizers said they had planned to stay put anyway.
• An Occupy San Diego protest continued Monday despite the apparent suicide of a man who jumped from the eighth floor of a parking garage next to the plaza where hundreds of protesters have camped for days. The man did not appear to be affiliated with the group protest against corporate greed, police said.
• In Portland, Ore., activists Monday moved back into Chapman Square, behind City Hall, where they said they would stay indefinitely. A Portland police spokesman said the city would allow them to stay for the time being.”
• About 75 protesters marched outside — and a few into — an Anaheim, Calif., bank and promised to march on more Orange County banks in coming weeks. The group, led by the Orange County Labor Federation, got support from Anaheim Councilwoman Lorri Galloway, who delivered a fiery speech to the protesters outside a Chase Bank near downtown.
  “This is the patriotic thing to be doing,” Galloway said. “‘Made in America’ used to mean something. But now, jobs are being shifted overseas and there’s not enough respect for the workers here. They are struggling and frustrated. …Those voices need to be heard in Washington, D.C.”
• 100 people were arrested early Tuesday after Occupy Boston protesters refused to leave a park in the city, police reportedly said.
• Irish protestors are solidarity with the mass “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations taking place in New York since last month in protest against financial greed. Dublin protesters have listed their demands that the IMF and EU “stay out” of Irish affairs, that ordinary people do not repay bank debt, that there be reform of the political system for “real participatory democracy” and that oil and gas reserves of the coast “be return to the people”. As with protesters in the US, they say they are defending 99 per cent of the population against the richest 1 percent.
• New York’s mayor Bloomberg has made the statement that protestors can continue to occupy Zuccotti Park indefinately provided they follow the law.

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NY Times Rewrites the Story – Occupy Wall Street

Check this out!  The story changed!  Photo by SOA Watch and shared by FaceBook Friend Don Johnson.  From the byline it appears “Al Baker” made the changes to the article, I guess Colin Moynihan’s version was too factual?  Why stop there?  Why not photoshop the picture too Al?  You could add some palm trees and union pseudo thugs in there in a Fox Wisconsinish style…that is the fad.

Update:  Al Baker the man who made the changes to the NY Time article depicted above responded via comment to this story.  “Al Baker is the Police Bureau Chief for the New York Times and the son of a Police Lieutennant.”  Quite simply he gives us a clue as to why he changed the story.  The original made Police look bad so he changed it. We can understand why the change was made now..yet that still doesn’t make it right.

Still more… Ministry of Truth, a well-known contributor on the Daily Kos website posted this comment :

I was there, we were allowed on the bridge it was clearly open. People got trapped up there, pure and simple. F*** the NYtimes
by MinistryOfTruth on Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 01:29:26 AM EDT