What the OWS demonstration really looks like(pics)
 

Just got home from a long weekend in NYC. I went down to Wall Street to see what was going on there and was surprised to see how unimpressive the demonstration actually is.
Tiny park right next to the WTC site with a few hundred(maybe) people. I saw a couple of ladies knitting and one fellow beating a drum. Of course the park was surrounded by media filming from angles to make it look big. Pardon the quality of the pics,they are from my phone.

I have been at demonstrations in Madison that were 10 times larger,when the Brathaus ran out of beer before closing.

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why is it showwn to be so big and violent on cnn?
complete with police violence against citizens...weird

I would not be surprised if there have been instances of larger crowds but as it gets colder and wetter you can expect the enthusiasm to drop significantly.

Because that sells better than what Minte provided?

I wondered that too. But that is it. There was a police presence,but no where near as many as on Time square last night.

I took those pics friday,and the weather in NewYork was beautiful. 65 and partly sunny.

Then they should all be gone by next weekend.

Thanks for the pics. It's always nice to see such things without the professional level spin.

The result of limited protest rights.... sad.

It was for sure professional spun, away from it being anything... but no worries the 1000's of Google Images from cell phones and amateurs paint a clear picture for anyone willing to look.

How does that explain the 700 arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge? Was that a surge or have things died down?

I think the Occupy Fort Lauderdale only had a couple hundred people, too. Similar to the local tea parties. I remember when I was living in Annapolis, MD they made the tea party things seem big in local media but when I drove by it was a few people holding signs.

Too bad the movements can't find some common ground to stand on and move forward as a unified group.

Come to think of it, things must have died down.

I was watching the live feed on Justin.tv or something similar a few weeks back and it was WAY more busy than that. Think it was the same weekend as all of the arrests.

There weren't any limitations in Madison when the unions were raising hell.The city was like a zoo. And after the fact,they pushed for recall elections and got some. They are still at it here as they are working overtime to get a recall election for Governor Walker.

The capital square here is large. And it was stanhttp://www.mintesbabes.com/gfy/OB-MQ...0219235153.jpgding room only for weeks.

How cold is it out there today? Would suck to sleep out there.

It was nearly 60 when I caught my flight home this morning.

These are just the people who are sleeping in the park, it seems they coordinate efforts during protests in time square and other places and much bigger crowds turn out. Social Media at its finest.

I stayed at the Millenium on Times Square. The only hooligan I saw since thursday was the Naked Cowboy.

Madison isn't NYC....

Plenty of random OWS protest shots on google images that show it had a shit ton of people, but today they aren't allowed to live that one tiny little park without resistance, which has rules applied to it too.

Yes that's true. Madison has a population of around 400,000 and at the peak it was estimated over 70,000 demonstrators were out.

What an odd twist....

Have NY do with WI did, and see how the big the protest in NYC is.

That was peoples lives, at that time, getting ripped apart, and that's going to fire up a shit ton of people, just like it did in Madison. The people could actually see/feel/witness themselves getting bent over....

The OWS group is protesting what has been happening for decades and more directly 3 years ago and recent events of course. People still have no idea wtf is going on with the banks, wall street or even OWS.

If you lived in WI, you knew wtf was going on, and it hit almost everyone. They're VERY different.... so much, it's odd you even tried to relate them.

That may be true in the colder regions, but the crowds will build back up in spring. So what?

The OWS group is barely a symbol that someone in media is working hard to mobilize. I saw the demonstration with my own eyes. I read the signs and listened to the chants. It is insignificant. It's apathy at it's finest.

There is no common ground.

The Tea Party wants low taxes, small government, capitalism, and freedom.

OWS wants high taxes and a nanny government and socialism. They decry white collar corruption, but they turn a blind eye to government corruption, especially if they are the beneficiaries of it.

way to spin everything to be about your views only.

Lol, the media has damn near ignored the Occupy protests, let alone get it right, report it fair, or do anything to actually help it, hell American media calls it OWS, when it's just a single protest within 1000's. The media is owned by massive corporations, like they're going around and start helping push what they think hates them.... lol.

Did you check the protest in Washington DC over the weekend? Or any of the other 1000+ Occupy protests around the world?

OWS itself could quit all together, but that doesn't mean the Occupy protests are over.

Minte, you are being a fucking idiot. There have never been more than a few hundred people actually camping out in NYC. Thousands show up to the marches and other organized events, not everyone can just hang out in NYC for months on end. 700 were arrested on the bridge alone, so are you going to claim 300 protesting but 700 arrested?

It's not like this shit isn't well documents. You can go watch live streams of the protests right now, view videos from everything that has gone on and read reports going back to September. If you are ignorant about what is happening it's your own lazy ass fault. :2cents

To act as if people camped out all across the USA and the world is no big deal is hilarious. They've never seen anything like this and still don't know what to do. Over 100 were arrested in Chicago alone this weekend and they came right back to camp when released.

Offense intended, you are one dumb motherfucker.

No one seems to be taking OWS too seriously.

You are one sad brainwashed person....

OWS is one protest within a massive Occupy Movement.

The OWS protest is "focused" on Wall street... while the Washington DC movement, is focused on Government, and others on both, other things, etc.

Fox news will never tell you the facts, so I'll do it for you.

That's because most people are brainwashed sheep that only do and think what the television or radio tells them.

I figured you'd be supportive of these protests, good to see your name here. I don't think we've ever done business but C. D. had nothing but great things to say about you.

Cheers

Another anonymous internet toughguy with an opinion and no experience.

You watch television and read other peoples thoughts on the internet to form your opinion. I went and experienced it.

You didn't experience shit, dumbass.

the philadelphia one was a joke. I'll be in manhattan this week. maybe I'll swing by and see the NY protest too.
see if its the same rag tag "I want everything for free" crowd I saw in philly

These pics from yesterday and today look different:

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They will have forgotten all about OWS.

Which event did you attend? You seems to know more than the media or others that actually went to check it out. You take pics?

I can go to a small party and make it look well attended. I do it all the time. Those photos really show little.

That's why nothing is being done either way. There IS common ground. We found it for two hundred years ... do you think everybody just started disagreeing?

people are going to go back to living their lives. the 99% don't have unlimited vacation days and need to work to provide for their family :2 cents:

Minte, serious question:

Did you go and talk to anybody or did you take pics from afar to illustrate a point you wanted to make?

If just taking pics and seeing what you want to see, how is that any different than what the media is doing?

Sounds like you went there with your mind made up.

You say the media makes it look like more people, how do we know you're not making it look like less?

You have proven yourself to be biased in the past...just like you are accusing the media of being.

That guy never sleeps. He gets paid damn well for that gig though.