Alternet: OWS Shows Fight Is Far from Over - Explosive Actions on 2-Month Anniversary of Movement

AlterNet / By Sarah Jaffe and Nick Turse and Sarah Seltzer and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd and Kristen Gwynne

OWS Shows Fight Is Far from Over: Explosive Actions on 2 Month Anniversary of Movement

November 18, 2011 |

New York City showed its billionaire mayor and the rest of the 1 percent that the fight is far from over, just two days after the violent crackdown on Liberty Plaza in the middle of the night Tuesday.

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Meanwhile, the marchers kept up their chants as "Bloomberg beware, Zuccotti Park is everywhere," boomed across bridge. On the roadways below, cars honked their support, even, on occasion, beeping in time with the cheers from the protesters on the bridge. Others hung out their windows and yelled their approval or loudly applauded.

When we, at the front of the march, were about three quarters of the way across the bridge, I found myself next to a group of legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild. They had just spoken by cell phone with colleagues back at Foley Square and were told that the tail end of the march was only then just leaving the plaza. If that was the case, I asked Bruce Bentley, the chair of the NLG's Mass Defense Committee to estimate how many people were on the march. Judging by the distance, he ball-parked it at between 10,000 to 20,000. "I'd rather be conservative than over-estimate," he said. It turned out that Bentley was, apparently, too conservative. Other unconfirmed estimates put the crowd at more than 30,000.

End of the Day: Liberty Plaza

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The scene made one point clear: Bloomberg's eviction did not kill the movement, it mobilized supporters. Tonight, we sang happy birthday to Occupy Wall St.

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really got the public angry, and it definitely got us angry," said Espitia, "We spent way too much time. People donated too much money. It's not just going to go away like that. "

Out of jail and ready to keep moving, the demonstrators are still organizing. "In the next couple days there's definitely going to be a lot of meetings here to decide what to do. All the working groups are still having meetings. It hasn't stopped anything," said Hackett.

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