Comments on: Today At #OWS

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:39:19 +0000

Yes, Jams, I really think it was an own goal, totally, although there will be some modification of the drumming schedule to maintain the obviously good relations with their neighbors.

Oh, Jams, all of those people from The City couldn’t possibly have any problem with a protest targeting them. [/snark] I can’t imagine that the list of trustees had anything to do with its choice as a location by the Occupy group.

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:43:36 +0000

Over here the news is the closure of St Paul’s Cathedral on health and safety grounds. The Occuoy London protestors had camped in cathedral grounds and seem to have behaved very well especially when services are underway.

Interestingly the trustees of the Cathedral are:

Chairman
Sir John Stuttard PWC partner, Former Lord Mayor of London.

Trustees
The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles, Dean of St Paul’s
Dame Helen Alexander DBE Deputy chair of the CBI, director of Centrica plc
Lord Blair of Boughton Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Roger Gifford Investment banker, big in City of London
John Harvey – Not clearly identified
Joyce Hytner OBE – Theatre director
Gavin Ralston Global Head of Product and leading international asset manager at Schroder Investment Management
Carol Sergeant CBE – Chief Risk Director at Lloyds TSB, formerly Managing Director for Regulatory Process and Risk at the FSA
John Spence OBE – Former Managing Director, Business Banking, LloydsTSB

Hmmm,

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:58:22 +0000

Wow the REBNY came a cropper with their disgraceful plan. I am impressed by the support the locals have given.

“Yet another WASPY patrician looking woman says that she has been made a prisoner in her own apt, but not by OWS, by the police. She thinks they are overreacting. She supports OWS” Excellent!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:14:38 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates.

OTOH, from the reporting the locals are not very happy with the NYPD and their reactions, so this was a real loser for the opponents of OWS.

This is why I avoid these actions, because I have no tolerance for people stepping on my rights. I was only allowed to accompany my friends to a women’s clinic once, because I got ready to deck a couple of people who started pushing, and did a lot of ‘explaining’ to the protesters in my ‘military command voice’. They were regular escorts, and kept telling me that you have to remain cool. I wouldn’t put up with it.

It takes special people to hold it in when you are being pushed that hard. I’m not one of them.

BTW, Zuccotti Park is a remediation payment, not a public service. The group that owns it built it to get a zoning change they needed, and they would love to be able to develop the space.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:50:08 +0000

Please read Cynthia Kouril's liveblog of that Real Estate Board meeting. From the standpoint of the people who called the meeting, it was an utter failure: neighbor after business after neighbor after local business people appeared, one after another, testifying in support of OWS. Indeed, their only real request was that the drumming be time-limited. The OWS representatives read a statement in which they agreed to limit the drums basically to the workday, when everything else... construction work, etc. ... is already noisy in NYC. If the RE Board was looking for an excuse to take action against OWS, they got no help from the neighbors.