I’m going to bed, but I’ve been watching Occupy Wall Street all night. This is crazy. Today the SIEU, several other labor unions, and moveon.org joined the protest (finally!!). Reports have up to 20 THOUSAND protesters on Wall Street facing off against police. I’m sure that’s hugely exaggerated, but still, there are a huge number of people down there …
The march during the day was peaceful. But afterwards craziness. A Fox News crew has been maced in the face. Numerous protesters were maced and night sticked. I saw several videos of people getting beat up and at least one cameraman with the occupy wall street media team had what looked like a broken nose, allegedly because the police kicked him in the face for saying “I am not resisting.”
Links for all this in my twitter feed from the last several hours. I tried to retweet everything that looked important in order to have some realtime record of what was happening. For anyone interested, some of the best tweets were coming in from several journalists with the march listed here.(sorry, went back to put this link up and the page has changed, so I’ll try to get their names up in comments below….)
Okay. I just went back through the twitter feed, and here’s a list of journalists and other organizations that were tweeting actively from the occupation the night before last. They’re likely to be the among best sources of realtime information for future events as well in case anyone wants to follow them:
@PennyRed IThe New Statesman)
@allisonkilkenny (The Nation)
@RDEvro (Democracy Now)
The New York Civil Liberties Union is also on the ground and putting out good information at @nyclu
And Global Revolution (provider of the live stream from Zuccotti Park) is at @GlobalRevLive