Manifestation Américaine contre Wall Street. Le Monde & NY times.
03 octobre 2011
[h=1]RETOUR DE BÂTON – La police de New York aide involontairement les manifestants de Wall Street[/h]
Samedi 24 septembre à New York. AP/Tina Fineberg
Il n' y a guère que la police de New York qui ait pris au sérieux, dès sa naissance, le mouvement #OccupyWallStreet, un rassemblement d'activistes inspirés par les révolutions arabes et les "indignados" espagnols. Mais la réponse musclée du NYPD aux manifestations les a fait passer des "brèves" de bas de pages des quotidiens américains à la tête de leurs pages débats, parfois en "une". Elle a donné un élan au mouvement que ses organisateurs n'avaient peut-être pas imaginé.
Certes, les manifestants restent peu nombreux, mais leur mouvement s'étend, àLien retiré, à Houston, à Los Angeles et le 6 octobre à Washington.
Samedi, la mobilisation a pris un nouveau tour. Plus de 700 personnes qui ont bloqué la circulation sur le pont de Brooklyn ont été interpellées, selon la police de New York, provoquant un fort soutien sur Internet et une publicité sans précédent pour le mouvement. La plupart des manifestants arrêtés ont été libérés dimanche.
Déjà, le 23 septembre, une vidéo postée sur YouTube montrant un officier de la police de New York aspergeant à l'aide d'une bombe au poivre des manifestantes apparemment sous contrôle avait alerté les internautes et les médias :
Ce week-end, Nick Kristof, éditorialiste du New York Times aux 1 163 803 "followers"sur Twitter, proposait d'aider les manifestants à clarifier leur message, avec une liste de Lien retiréacceptables. Et Arianna Huffington, l'ultra-mondaine patronne du Huffington Post, appelait ses collègues à prêter plus d'attention aux indignés américains : "Le mouvement Occupons Wall Street s'est intensifié et c'est un rappel bienvenu pour les Américains en colère : le Tea Party n'est pas la seule option […]. Gardons un œil sur la place Zuccotti [où sont rassemblés les manifestants]", écrivait-elle dimanche, faisant référence au mouvement ultra-conservateur qui se développe aux Etats-Unis.
Source http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/10/03/retour-de-baton-la-police-de-new-york-aide-involontairement-les-manifestants-de-wall-street/
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[h=1]Anti-Wall Street Protests Spreading to Cities Large and Small[/h]
[h=6]By ERIK ECKHOLM and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS[/h][h=6]Published: October 3, 2011[/h]
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[h=6]Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press[/h]CHICAGO | At protests Monday near the Federal Reserve Bank and the Chicago Board of Trade, demonstrators spoke out against corporate greed and social inequality.More Photos »
[h=6]Josh Reynolds/Associated Press[/h]BOSTON | Commuters walked past demonstrators at the Occupy Boston village in the Financial District. Rallies are planned in other cities including Minneapolis, Baltimore and McAllen, Tex. More Photos »
[h=3]Readers’ Comments[/h]
“Rants based on discontents are the first stage of any movement,” said Michael Kazin, a professor of history at Georgetown University. But he said it was unclear if the current protests would lead to a lasting movement, which would require the newly unleashed passions to be channeled into institutions and shaped into political goals.
Publicity surrounding the recent arrests of hundreds in New York, near Wall Street and on the Brooklyn Bridge, has only energized the campaign. This week, new rallies and in some cases urban encampments are planned for cities as disparate as Memphis, Tenn.; Hilo, Hawaii; Minneapolis; Baltimore; and McAllen, Tex., according toOccupy Together, an unofficial hub for the protests that lists dozens of coming demonstrations, including some in Europe and Japan.
In the nation’s capital, an Occupy D.C. movement began on Saturday, with plans to join forces on Thursday with a similar anticorporate and antiwar group, October 2011, for an encampment in a park near the White House.
About 100 mostly younger people, down from 400 over the weekend, were camped outside Los Angeles City Hall on Monday morning. Several dozen tents occupied the lawn along with a free-food station and a media center. People sat on blankets playing the guitar or bongo drums or meditating. Next to a “Food Not Bombs” sign, was another that read “Food Not Banks.”
At the donations table, Elise Whitaker, 21, a freelance script editor and film director, said the protesters were united in their desire for “a more equal economy.”
“I believe that I am not represented by the big interest groups and the big money corporations, which have increasing control of our money and our politics,” she said, adding that she was not against capitalism per se.
Javier Rodriguez, 24, a former student at Pasadena City College, held a sign that read “Down with the World Bank” in Spanish, and said he was anti-capitalist.
“The monetary system is not working,” he said. “The banks are here to steal from us. Everybody is in debt whether it’s medical bills or school or loans. People are getting fed up with it.”
In Chicago on Monday morning, about a dozen people outside the Federal Reserve Bank sat on the ground or lay in sleeping bags, surrounded by protest signs and hampers filled with donated food and blankets. The demonstrators, who have been in Chicago since Sept. 24, said they had collected so much food that they started giving the surplus to homeless people.
Each evening, the number of protesters swells as people come from school or work, and the group marches to Michigan Avenue.
“We all have different ideas about what this means, stopping corporate greed,” said Paul Bucklaw, 45. “For me, it’s about the banks.”
Sean Richards, 21, a junior studying environmental health at Illinois State University in Normal, said he dropped out of college on Friday and took a train to Chicago to demonstrate against oil companies.
He said he would continue sleeping on the street for “as long as it takes.”
Strategists on the left said they were buoyed by the outpouring of energy and hoped it would contribute to a newly powerful progressive movement. Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, in Washington, noted that the Wall Street demonstrations followed protests in Wisconsin this year over efforts to suppress public employee unions and numerous rallies on economic and employment issues.
The new protesters have shown a remarkable commitment and have stayed nonviolent in the face of aggressive actions by the New York police, he said. “I think that as a result they really touched a chord among activists across the country.”
But if the movement is to have lasting impact, it will have to develop leaders and clear demands, said Nina Eliasoph, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California.
With the country in such deep economic distress, almost everyone is forced to think about economics and politics, giving the new protests a “major emotional resonance,” she said.
“So there is a tension between this emotionally powerful movement,” she said, “and the emptiness of the message itself so far.”
Ashley Southall contributed reporting from Washington, Ian Lovett from Los Angeles and Steven Yaccino from Chicago.
Courtesy of NY times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/u...ad-to-other-cities.html?src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB
03 octobre 2011
[h=1]RETOUR DE BÂTON – La police de New York aide involontairement les manifestants de Wall Street[/h]
Certes, les manifestants restent peu nombreux, mais leur mouvement s'étend, àLien retiré, à Houston, à Los Angeles et le 6 octobre à Washington.
Déjà, le 23 septembre, une vidéo postée sur YouTube montrant un officier de la police de New York aspergeant à l'aide d'une bombe au poivre des manifestantes apparemment sous contrôle avait alerté les internautes et les médias :
Ce week-end, Nick Kristof, éditorialiste du New York Times aux 1 163 803 "followers"sur Twitter, proposait d'aider les manifestants à clarifier leur message, avec une liste de Lien retiréacceptables. Et Arianna Huffington, l'ultra-mondaine patronne du Huffington Post, appelait ses collègues à prêter plus d'attention aux indignés américains : "Le mouvement Occupons Wall Street s'est intensifié et c'est un rappel bienvenu pour les Américains en colère : le Tea Party n'est pas la seule option […]. Gardons un œil sur la place Zuccotti [où sont rassemblés les manifestants]", écrivait-elle dimanche, faisant référence au mouvement ultra-conservateur qui se développe aux Etats-Unis.
Source http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/10/03/retour-de-baton-la-police-de-new-york-aide-involontairement-les-manifestants-de-wall-street/
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[h=1]Anti-Wall Street Protests Spreading to Cities Large and Small[/h]
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LOS ANGELES | Marchers wound their way through downtown to the courthouse where the trial for Michael Jackson's doctor continued. Protesters are camping outside City Hall. More Photos »[h=6]By ERIK ECKHOLM and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS[/h][h=6]Published: October 3, 2011[/h]
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“Rants based on discontents are the first stage of any movement,” said Michael Kazin, a professor of history at Georgetown University. But he said it was unclear if the current protests would lead to a lasting movement, which would require the newly unleashed passions to be channeled into institutions and shaped into political goals.
Publicity surrounding the recent arrests of hundreds in New York, near Wall Street and on the Brooklyn Bridge, has only energized the campaign. This week, new rallies and in some cases urban encampments are planned for cities as disparate as Memphis, Tenn.; Hilo, Hawaii; Minneapolis; Baltimore; and McAllen, Tex., according toOccupy Together, an unofficial hub for the protests that lists dozens of coming demonstrations, including some in Europe and Japan.
In the nation’s capital, an Occupy D.C. movement began on Saturday, with plans to join forces on Thursday with a similar anticorporate and antiwar group, October 2011, for an encampment in a park near the White House.
About 100 mostly younger people, down from 400 over the weekend, were camped outside Los Angeles City Hall on Monday morning. Several dozen tents occupied the lawn along with a free-food station and a media center. People sat on blankets playing the guitar or bongo drums or meditating. Next to a “Food Not Bombs” sign, was another that read “Food Not Banks.”
At the donations table, Elise Whitaker, 21, a freelance script editor and film director, said the protesters were united in their desire for “a more equal economy.”
“I believe that I am not represented by the big interest groups and the big money corporations, which have increasing control of our money and our politics,” she said, adding that she was not against capitalism per se.
Javier Rodriguez, 24, a former student at Pasadena City College, held a sign that read “Down with the World Bank” in Spanish, and said he was anti-capitalist.
“The monetary system is not working,” he said. “The banks are here to steal from us. Everybody is in debt whether it’s medical bills or school or loans. People are getting fed up with it.”
In Chicago on Monday morning, about a dozen people outside the Federal Reserve Bank sat on the ground or lay in sleeping bags, surrounded by protest signs and hampers filled with donated food and blankets. The demonstrators, who have been in Chicago since Sept. 24, said they had collected so much food that they started giving the surplus to homeless people.
Each evening, the number of protesters swells as people come from school or work, and the group marches to Michigan Avenue.
“We all have different ideas about what this means, stopping corporate greed,” said Paul Bucklaw, 45. “For me, it’s about the banks.”
Sean Richards, 21, a junior studying environmental health at Illinois State University in Normal, said he dropped out of college on Friday and took a train to Chicago to demonstrate against oil companies.
He said he would continue sleeping on the street for “as long as it takes.”
Strategists on the left said they were buoyed by the outpouring of energy and hoped it would contribute to a newly powerful progressive movement. Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, in Washington, noted that the Wall Street demonstrations followed protests in Wisconsin this year over efforts to suppress public employee unions and numerous rallies on economic and employment issues.
The new protesters have shown a remarkable commitment and have stayed nonviolent in the face of aggressive actions by the New York police, he said. “I think that as a result they really touched a chord among activists across the country.”
But if the movement is to have lasting impact, it will have to develop leaders and clear demands, said Nina Eliasoph, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California.
With the country in such deep economic distress, almost everyone is forced to think about economics and politics, giving the new protests a “major emotional resonance,” she said.
“So there is a tension between this emotionally powerful movement,” she said, “and the emptiness of the message itself so far.”
Ashley Southall contributed reporting from Washington, Ian Lovett from Los Angeles and Steven Yaccino from Chicago.
Courtesy of NY times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/u...ad-to-other-cities.html?src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB
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C'est très sérieux et très bien documenté et argumenté à base de démonstrations scientifiques.
