Occupy Miami’s participation in Thursday’s action will be taking place on the eve of its possible eviction from the grounds of the Stephen P. Clark Center at 5pm on Friday. The impending eviction revolves around a dispute between the occupiers and Miami-Dade County officials over the validity of the original permit to occupy the property.
In a strong show of unity by Miami's "99%," Occupy Miami will join many other community organizations in a march and massive show of force on Thursday, November 17, at 4pm from Bayfront's Jose Marti Park to Brickell Village. Occupy Miami members plan to organize a feeder march through Brickell beginning at 2pm, holding mock trials of several banks before joining the main mobilization at 4pm.
Although the groups represent a variety of political viewpoints, they are united in their belief that democratic processes are being undermined and that the economic future of working people is at risk while the power of the top 1% continues to grow. "Some of us studied hard, only to be burdened with debt but no jobs, others have worked their entire lives only to see their savings plundered. People have lost the homes they raised their children in, the jobs they built the city with, but our politicians only seem to cut more jobs and give more welfare breaks to the super-rich!" said Kevin Young of Occupy Miami.
(THEY WERE EVICTED in New York since this was written.)
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg instructed police to forcefully evict Occupy Wall Street from its two-month old Zuccotti Park home. "It has been said that you can't evict an idea whose time has come. We are waking up to the fact that our future has been stolen from us, and we are here together and united to get it back."
2 comments:
I'd prefer and "Occupy" congress! 47% of them are millionaires and get to trade the stock market with inside information (according to a recent 60 minutes piece).
I don't like the fact that Unions are behind most of these groups and the younger generation are not aware they're being used as pawns, though I do believe "they" strongly believe in what they've been fed. I support their right to protest, though I don't like the camping out stuff.
Now that the mayors are force ably evicting the protesters and Congress is doing nothing, we are going back not to the 60's, but to 1919.
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