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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Economy "Over 100 NYPD Officers Refuse to Work in Support of Occupy Wall Street Movement"

Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:41 PM

This is amazing. If it's true, this might be the real beginning of something really big:

In a bizarre twist of fate, a growing movement of New York City Police Department officers are banding together with the Occupy Wall Street movement, while the main stream media continues to ignore this escalating event.
The Occupy Wall Street movement issued the following statement on their website:
"Today we received unconfirmed reports that over one hundred blue collar police refused to come into work in solidarity with our movement. These numbers will grow. We are the 99 percent. You will not silence us."

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Wow.

Very cool.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on September 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM

I really really hope this is true

Posted by shaneleopard on September 28, 2011 at 3:55 PM

This is Boomberg's worst nightmare! And great news! Now we need hundreds of thousands to converge, peacefully, and start to fight back.

Posted by Vince on September 28, 2011 at 4:06 PM

The majority of cops are good people who want to help their fellow citizens.
Unfortunately, the nature of the job means those who take advantage of their position do more damage than other jackasses in the general population.
I'm glad the good cops are starting to feel like they can stand up for what they believe in and not be as afraid of retaliation from higher up.

Posted by Enigma

on September 28, 2011 at 4:12 PM

I'm not ready to believe some wordpad blog that I've never heard of before. And if it is a trustworthy source, "unconfirmed" is the key word.

Posted by Matt from Denver on September 28, 2011 at 4:13 PM

I obviously can't say if this is or isn't true, but if you know any cops well—NYC or otherwise—you'd be very, very skeptical of this account.

Posted by Dougsf on September 28, 2011 at 4:20 PM

They're the 99 percent who still haven't realized that "Wall Street" long ago packed up its quants and moved the trading to server rooms in Wichita.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on September 28, 2011 at 4:33 PM

I doubt it.

Posted by sirkowski

on September 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM

10 bucks they'll all be back after Rosh Hashana

Posted by Rosh Hashana on September 28, 2011 at 5:01 PM

I'd like this to be the start of something big in this country but Wisconsin was supposed to be something big and it died out and Michigan was supposed to be something big and what happened there?

Give it a few months and see if other cities (like I don't know, SEATTLE) decide to get into the game. If it doesn't become wide spread the corporate state will be unharmed.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on September 28, 2011 at 5:50 PM

@9 FTW!

Posted by Timrrr on September 28, 2011 at 6:18 PM

@10 Check out Westlake on Saturday. 10-7.

Posted by erly on September 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM

When more 'normal' people start starving, dying of easily preventable medical problems, sleeping in cars and under bridges, then things -might- start changing. As long as the teabag wingnuts do not totally take over. If they do, it will get really ugly.

Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber

on September 29, 2011 at 12:42 AM

@10, Cato the Younger Younger wrote "Give it a few months and see if other cities (like I don't know, SEATTLE) decide to get into the game. If it doesn't become wide spread the corporate state will be unharmed."

See http://occupytogether.org/ and http://occupythenation.com/, where you can read about:

Wall Street NYC

Chicago

Cleveland

Denver

Florida

Kansas City

Los Angeles

Orlando

Phoenix

Seattle

St Louis

Youngstown

Posted by Phil M

on September 29, 2011 at 9:01 AM

Occupy Seattle wrote:

We're occupying the Fed on Monday, September 26 · 4:00pm - 11:30pm

Be outside 915 second ave at 4:00PM on Monday.

Organizing to support our brothers in New York #occupywallstreet and demand a stop to the fiscal destruction of our country! Corporate greed and government corruption will be the plight of our nation!

Spread this event.

Do not be discouraged or drawn away from attending this event because of the low attending numbers. We need people like you to join in solidarity to spread this message and make this event become larger over time.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=1…