From My friend on facebook:
Day #15, OCCUPY WALL STREET 10/1/11 I had just spent 8 hours, with 700 of my closest friends, being detained, while Occupying the Brooklyn Bridge. At 3pm, We started marching around OUR city, making our demands for Peace, Freedom, Economic Justice, and Equality, when Mayor Hosni Bloomberg's NYPD entrapped us into using the Brooklyn Bridge roadway, rather than the raised deck of the Pedestrian Walkway. Nine, or 10,000 Thousand folks, (like VFP's 'Nam Vets George McAnanama & Dr Camillo Mac Bica), were able to use the raised walkway, but those 700 of us on the actual Roadway got tired at the Mid-span of the Bridge, near the famous Neo-Gothic stone Suspension Cable Towers, and we plopped down to study the beautiful Archways built into the Towers, and the lovely geometric designs of the graceful steel suspension cables. Mayor Bloomies NYPD didn't play that shit. From 4pm to 7pm, we were absolutely saturated with rain, while the Police were realizing THEY, too, are part of the 99%, as big hits to their Pension Plans are being discussed. Police finally got about 10 big ass MTA busses, (because their meat wagons were woefully inadequate, for all 700 of us.) They backed the buses up from both the Brooklyn side, and the Manhattan side, and by 7pm, we were all on board the 2nd & 3rd waves of busses, and by 8pm, we were processed and locked into about TWENTY 1 person cells, crammed with 7 or 8 peeps each. Our Occupation's use of The Communal "Mic Check" is really valuable. We were able to communicate messages to all 20 cells, on opposite sides of the wing of the jail, for Legal Aid ph #'s, messages from the last folks to get out, to the 1st peeps to be sprung, get said messages out to loved ones, and even the cops on the transport busses were using "Mic Check" to communicate to us which of the 3 processing Precincts we were going to, and all the niceties that kids who've never been detained should know. We sang, laughed, joked, and grooved, until we were released, around 2am, and most of us got back to LIBERTY PLAZA by 3am, a mere 12 hours after our March left LIBERTY PLAZA. The last 40 or so photos in this FaceBook Album are the last of our 5 and 6 person Affinity groups got out of the 75th Precinct, as we joyfully welcomed each other's illusory freedom, then travelled back to our Liberty Plaza Base Camp I was honored to be jailed with all the young-uns (y'all wouldn't believe the age demographics of the kids), and it was my SECOND favorite DETENTION since Hosni Mubarak detained 600 of us, in Tahrir Square, on Dec 31, 2009, on the Gaza Freedom March (13 months BEFORE the Egypt Revolution) We ARE making a difference. Indy Media, blogs, one on one conversations, and even lil photo stories are helping folks follow the Reeces Pieces, as they self educate themselves of the evils of our economic system I'm hoping to see all y'all , starting on Wednesday, Oct 5, to bring a large segment of WALL STREET's OCCUPATION to the politician-Puppets of Wall Street, who operate for the Corporations, on Capital Hill, in DC, October 6th until ??? ENJOY these 199 PHOTOS xoxoxo Be Well, RAISE HELL ! Bill Perry 215-945-3350, 215-945-1269 Delaware Valley Veterans For America Disabled American Veteran, VVAW, VFP, VFW, VVAhttp://DelValVets4America.org/ http://www.Arlington-Libertybe
By: Bill Perry
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