adminmovement marked its two month anniversary with coast to coast protests on Thursday.
Activists flooded US cities in what they called “A Day of Action”, all this as part of the protest against economic inequality.
In New York, the heart of the movement, tens of thousands of activists marched across the city, literally occupying streets.
All that was accompanied by brutal crackdowns and violent arrests, with almost 300 arrests being made in New York alone.
RT’s Marina Portnaya, reporting from New York, has said that an eyewitness told RT the police attacked one of the activists – whether the police were or were not provoked is not clear. According to the witness, five or more police officers jumped on a young activist and started to beat him.
Independent journalist Abby Martin, talking to RT from Oakland, does not agree that the police’s general approach has been helping to restore public order.
Though she admits the rallies could cause some anger of the public, the response and support for the movement is stronger than annoyance by inconveniences. “Civil disobedience is the only way to go.
People are waking up to the fact that the police are now militarized, and these absurd methods of crowd control – tear gas into thousands of people if one person throws a bottle – (take place).
“If the cops kick us out of Zuccotti Park and outside downtown Oakland, we are going to reconvene and show up stronger”. According to the Los Angeles Times, the first protester arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday was 81-year-old Bertha Jordan, a retired nurse – and a former trade union member. – RT/LA Times.
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