City Hall: No NYC-Style
Raid Planned Here

Seeing as how NHPD has demonstrated time and time again that city hall has very little say in what they do or how they do it why would they let the easy OT cash cow go to the slaughterhouse? Also, although Allan Bison and others would love to tout the accomplishments of actually effective and productive OWS groups in places like New York and Oakland we've all seen what a joke the New Haven OWS is and how it would never come close to affecting change or worrying the powers that be like other groups have, causing their shut down. Adam Joseph and city hall get the faux-egalitarian credit for appearing to support these clowns who in turn agree to not do anything that will rock the boat, rocking the boat being the entire purpose of the movement and why hundreds of people are willing to be arrested as testament to their conviction, one sorely lacking in the weak spines of Ben Aubin and OWS/NH.

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The latest is that they are back at the park-they threw out all of their belongings which they told they could retrieve if they presented id but the sanitations workers-which is another issue in and of itself, told media that they were bringing their stuff to the dump. they are back at Zuccotti but they arent "allowed" to use tents, etc.

@ Che Buffett

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We are winning Comrades! Can you smell the fear emanating from the corporatist high rise office buildings? It will be only a short time now before our anarcho-communist vision is achieved!

We will achieve TOTAL re-distribution of wealth from those who make things that other people want to buy! Universal free healthcare, diapers, college education, food, and anything else we want! And why do we deserve to have hard-working successful people who have during their lives sacrificed time and other pursuits to pay for us? Because we can, damn it! WE ARE THE 99%!!!

Here's a question:

Who is paying for the port-o-potties that have been placed on the upper green? Other groups within the city apply and are granted permits to hold events but are left holding a heay price tag including renting port-o-potties to be placed around the green as well as to pay for police overtime during their events?

(Merry go round music playing in the background) So says Police Chief Pastore, uh, Lewis, no, uh Redding, ummm Limon, no. How about Velleca...Chief Esserman? Right, he hasn't left yet because he hasn't gotten here yet. I got it, Police Chief John DeStefano, Jr.

This makes me proud to be a New Havener—whether or not you voted for DeStefano, this is the right decision for New Haven and it's traditions.

To why do rules apply to some.

I called the mayors office and spoke to a woman. I asked the same questions after having to ask them to her like she was 3 years old she said the toilets were already there. It is a public space. I always thought there were permits and having to leave at dusk. I guess not. They are costing the city lots of money destroying the green. What I have to ask the leader I Allan Bison or who ever it is. Is your group going to clean up your mess including planting new grass in the area your tents are on. If not then I suggest a class action suit against your group for the tax payers of New Haven. I shouldn't have to pay for this. Also the mayors office should report how much this is costing the city. Extra police Extra cleanup for the parks and rec. Why do rules apply to some i feel you.

That is the correct line city hall is taking. The proprietors oversee the the Green not City Hall. This is a truly unique piece of land and serves a civic function far beyond any ordinary park. I for one would love to see a permanent speakers corner like in Hyde Park, London. Wander from soapbox to soapbox and expand your mind, sharpen your wits, and marvel at the human condition.

"Anarcho-communist vision"??? That's a fancy way of saying "I have no idea what I'm talking about." Read Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago and tell me how you feel about communism when you're finished. I'm not saying unfettered capitalism is a panacea, but communism is far worse.

I love how someone who so openly criticizes this movement has no clue, one month into New Haven and 2 months into NYC, that this movement has no leaders.
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As one of the 45%, I think City Hall and the NHPD are doing this right. Getting physically confrontational in the interest of public safety is embarrassingly stupid.

As silly as I may find this movement, this form of protest may well be the way forward. They are getting media coverage, and they are not being seen as radicals that need to be marginalised.

Does anyone really think the Power Elite is scared of the NYC or Oakland Occupy Movements? They just got tired of the nuisance, and then made the Occupiers' point by the use of heavy-handed police. Say "goodbye" to any moral high ground the 1% might have had.

A recent issue of Harper's had an article on how the privatisation and demise of British industry, and the supremacy of the City of London did so much to destroy the fiber of British society. I found it to be very compelling.

I would be shocked if the City bothered with our encampment. It's low key and threatens no entrenched interest.