Live Updates

• 11:34 am: sign reads: "Arrest one of us, and two more will appear. You cannot arrest an idea."
• 11:32 am: barricades removed from south side of Liberty Square.
• 11:20 am: Liberty Square re-occupied: Bloomberg, NYPD struggle to quash Occupy Wall Street.
• 11:11 am: police chaos, officers use barricade as weapon against press, protestors
• 11:09 am: protestors tearing down NYPD barricades at south side of Liberty Square, chanting: "WHOSE PARK? OUR PARK!" -- police outnumbered, calling in reinforcements.
• 11:04 am: media denied access past police blockade; coverage of mass arrests censored by NYPD
• 11:02 am: mass arrests reported at Beaver & Broadway
• 10:59 am: massive march coming north on Broadway south of Wall. Protestors continue to converge on Liberty Square, which is partially surrounded by helmeted NYPD
• 10:57 am: NYC Dept of Education may let out school at 1:30pm EST
• 10:53 am: police profiling protesters; checking IDs to access Broadway checkpoints around Wall St. Livestream shows police selectively allowing some people to pass without ID based on appearance, while blocking other people who "look like protesters" from passing even with ID.
• 10:44 am: thousands occupying Liberty Square
• 10:39 am: reports of LRAD sound cannon used by NYPD to disperse protesters singing National Anthem near Pine St
• 10:37 am: Bloomberg responds to Wall Street shutdown
• 10:32 am: one march headed down william toward beaver stopped by police; people who "look like protesters" not allowed to pass, but "suits" allowed through
• 10:30 am: protesters chanting "her cuffs are too tight" in solidarity with 60 y/o woman who can't feel her arms after being arrested
• 10:25 am: police violence continues; protestors defiant, undeterred
• 10:16 am: via people's mic: protestors converging in victory march to Liberty Square to celebrate 15 minute delay of NYSE opening bell.
• 10:14 am: report of sanitation workers blocking Beaver with truck in solidarity with OWS
• 10:10 am: protesters and police at stand-off at multiple intersections; people's mic breaks out across locations to share heart-breaking, inspirational stories of the 99%
• 10:07 am: under OWS banner, hundreds use people's mic to tell personal stories of economic exploitation. Sitting in street, intersection of Nassau and Wall. Watch live
• 10:00 am: 50+ arrested, 60 Wall subway station reported closed.
• 9:58 am: about 20 protestors locked arms, blocking access to TD Bank
• 9:56 am: globalrev at 20,000 current viewers.
• 9:55 am: at least half dozen reporters violently shoved by NYPD
• 9:52 am: widespread reports of police violence
• 9:50 am: defying police bullhorn orders, protesters drop banner reading "revolution"
• 9:43 am: more arrests at Wall and Broadway, pedestrians restricted
• 9:39 am: NYPD checkpoint at Pine and Broadway, checking ID
• 9:35 am: theother99 ustream hits 10,000 current viewers, 60,000 total.
• 9:34 am: NYPD violence forcing marchers to sidewalk
• 9:27 am: sit-in at Pine and Nassau cleared. If dispersed, head there.
• 9:19 am: police brutality at 60 Wall
• 9:16 am: retired Philly police Captain Ray Lewis reported arrested.
• 9:11 am: opening bell delayed!
• 9:09 am: traders blocked from entering stock exchange
• 9:07 am: NYPD refusing to give badge numbers
• 9:06 am: subway 2 and 3 to Wall Street confirmed open, but guarded by NYPD
• 9:04 am: police arrest woman in wheelchair
• 9:02 am: reports of 30+ arrested, zip-tied
• 9:00 am: NYPD confused, overwhelmed
• 8:58 am: Wall Street workers massing with protestors, unable to enter Wall Street
• 8:55 am: sitters at Nassau being dragged away, Beaver and New requesting help, police using batons
• 8:53 am: protestors taking police barricades, barricading Police vehicle
• 8:49 am: confirmed arrests at Beaver and Broadway, police moving in on Hannover
• 8:47 am: arrest warning given at Nassau and Pine
• 8:45 am: people chanting "take the Bull!"
• 8:41 am: arrests at Wall and Beaver
• 8:39 am: all entrances to Wall Street occupied, police moving in on Hannover and Wall
• 8:31 am: protestors blocking intersections
• 8:29 am: 2 and 3 subways at 60 Wall now reported closed
• 8:22 am: 2 and 3 subways at 60 Wall reported open.
• 8:14 am: march continues to grow, "people pouring into street"
• 8:05 am: police lines reported permeable
• 7:57 am: marchers taking both sides of streets amidst heavy police and media presence.
  
• 7:51 am: march estimated in thousands

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While we've been imprisoned here we've held Assemblies and Mic Checked corrections officers to attend to urgent medical conditions, some of which were the result of police brutality during the raids. There is no food except for bread, no cleanliness, no hygene, no waters, no showers. There are non-occupiers who are suffering here as well.

We do not know what we have been charged with.

We want freedom!

This message was consensed upon by a group of occupiers imprisoned by Billionare Michael Bloomberg and his private army, and relayed to members of the Legal Working Group of #ows.

Sixty days into the struggle #OccupyWallStreet was violently evicted by the NYPD, who leveled our homes at Liberty Square to the ground. Our movement, however, is stronger than it has ever been. In these sixty days we have brought about a massive awakening, perhaps the largest one in the country since the Civil Rights Movement fifty years ago, and certainly the first global one in modern history. People around the world, from Spain to Australia, from Chile to the U.S. have opened their eyes together to the decadence and injustice of the common system that exploits us. This is what we mean when we say with the deepest significance: you cannot stop an idea whose time has come. Read More...

Tomorrow, Thursday November 17th, marks two months since the start of Occupy Wall Street as well as International Students Day. To commemorate this two month anniversary, Occupy Wall Street will take to the streets in celebration and in solidarity with people around the world participating in a massive global day of action in hundreds of cities.

In the wake of Bloomberg’s predawn raid of Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday morning, thousands of people throughout the five boroughs and the greater region will join together to take nonviolent action tomorrow. We will gather to resist austerity, rebuild the economy, and reclaim our democracy. We will no longer tolerate a system that only serves the very rich and powerful. Right now Wall Street owns Washington. We are the 99% and we are here to reclaim our democracy.

Schedule for New York #N17 Actions below. Read More...

There are two councils happening tonight: Read More...

Message from Protestors to NYPD: If you SEE something, a fellow officer violating protocol, SAY something

Over 100 people, mostly women, marched from Liberty Square to NYPD’s 1st Precinct HQ at 11pm Tuesday night to demand that all women in custody be treated with respect and dignity by the police. The march was organized after our sisters in custody made various complaints of male officers patrolling the women’s cells, unannounced. We were told that male members of the NYPD were specifically making unannounced patrols by the women’s cells, and by the shared women’s toilet (in plain view of all women and officers)--which is a common tactic used to humiliate those in custody.

In the spirit of the Occupy movement, the crowd of 100 gathered in a show of solidarity to demand that the NYPD issue a formal statement that this will be addressed and that there be no more instances of this humiliating tactic being used. There were no arrests at tonight’s solidarity march.

Some chants from the crowd: “All day, all night, occupy women’s rights!” and “Courtesy, professionalism and respect” and “If you see something, say something!”

All those in solidarity are encouraged to call the complaint line and demand Police Commissioner Ray Kelly put an end to this violent behavior. NYPD Internal Affairs: 212.487.7350 or directly NYPD 1st Precinct: 212.334.0611

Linnea Palmer, Occupy Wall Street Press Team, is available for any follow up questions on this particular action. Press@occupywallst.org