At 3PM, thousands of students, workers, and other supporters gathered in Union Square chanting "Shut the city down!" and using the People's Mic to share stories of how banks and corporate greed have impacted the 99%. Simultaneously, Occupiers took to multiple subway stations in all five boroughs. The day of action culminated when the student strike, labor unions, and various OWS groups took over a number of streets in Lower Manhattan on their way to Foley Square before marching across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Students chanted "CUNY should be free!" and "Student Power!" as they took to the streets along 16th and 5th Avenue, shutting down traffic and leaving police powerless to respond. Police attempts to erect barricades along 5th Avenue failed to block the march, as banners reading "OCCUPIED" were seen along New School buildings.
Huge crowds marched down Broadway toward Foley Square to join another large contingent of labor unions and fellow Occupiers. Despite a massive police presence and helicopters circling overhead, protestors took Foley Square, as marchers converged and supporters poured from the subways. Over 30,000 joined as one, marching across the Brooklyn Bridge, and proving to the world that an idea whose time has come cannot be evicted. The 1% might steal our homes, but they cannot steal our truth.

Live Updates

• 8:40 pm: People's Assembly currently happening on Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge; several hundred others are returning to Liberty Square
• 8:23 pm: There is now a people's library, a marching band and a projector on the Brooklyn Bridge, according to @occupywallst people on the ground
• 8:05 pm: SEIU President Mary Kay Henry being arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge
• 8:00 pm: City councilor Jumaane Williams may have been arrested at the foot of Brooklyn Bridge
• 7:54 pm: General assembly held at 8 at the Korean War Memorial Park, just past Brooklyn Bridge.
• 7:52 pm: From @John Harkinson, thousands of people with music, signs, honks of support. Everything peaceful.
• 7:30 pm: The column marching on Brooklyn Bridge stretches about a mile long. From http://www.emergencystream.com/video_streams/NY/NYC3/a.html
• 7:22 pm: chant: "we are unstoppable, a new world is possible!"
• 7:15 pm: a massive banner reading "Occupy Wall Street" was dropped from the overhang of the pedestrian walkway on the Brooklyn Bridge in full view of traffic; hundreds of cars seen honking in support
• 7:09 pm: A Light Show on Brooklyn Bridge is projecting "99%", "Occupy Earth" "we are winning" and other slogans of support on the side of the Verizon Building. Followed by "Happy Birthday OccupywallstNYC" Reported by @occupywallst
• 7:06 pm: Police scanners estimate the crowd at 32,650 people. Reported by @jstetser
• 7:01 pm: Entrance of Brooklyn Bridge City Hall station closed.
• 7:00 pm: One source gives around 2,000 protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
• 6:44 pm: https://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/AnalectFilms/status/137290008620052481/photo/1 - Taking Canal St.
• 6:42 pm: http://twitpic.com/7fjlrc - On the Brooklyn Bridge.
• 6:35 pm: From TheOther99, reports of NYPD intimidating the press, told Tim Pool he would have his press card revoked if he was arrested.
• 6:30 pm: City Hall is locked down, from @JoshHarkinson
• 6:15 pm: 20,000 marching towards Brooklyn Bridge from Foley Square, chanting "Whose Bridge? Our Bridge!"
• 5:30 pm: #OWS shuts down Canal St.
• 5:25 pm: NYPD cavalry begins to be appear on Centre Street.
• 5:16 pm: 90 Fifth Avenue occupied by students from Pratt, Columbia, NYU, Hunter pic.twitter.com/lBNwUwpJ
• 5:07 pm: more police sirens heard headed toward Foley
• 5:00 pm: chant: "Bloomberg beware, Liberty Square is everywhere!"
• 4:57 pm: thousands more run south on 7th Ave, evading NYPD barricades to meet Union allies and thousands more who are continuing to mass at Foley Square
• 4:53 pm: Ydanis Rodriguez, NYC Council member who was arrested during raid on Liberty square, spotted at Foley
• 4:52 pm: marchers headed from west end of 14th after cut off by police barricades
• 4:47 pm: 5th ave has been shut down!
• 4:42 pm: thousands outmaneuver Billionaire Bloomberg's publicly funded private army at 14th and 5th ave and head West on 15th
• 4:40 pm: music and chants can be heard emanating from Foley Square
• 4:32 pm: as other marches continue heading down Broadway and from Liberty Square, 7th and 6th st are reported to have been taken by protesters
• 4:26 pm: Foley reported full of protestors, NYU students still on their way; other feeder marches (including from Liberty Square) also en route
• 4:26 pm: face off between marchers and a small number of police who are trying to prevent access onto 5th Ave
• 4:13 pm: headed toward Foley Square, thousands of students and friends stream out of Union Square and into the streets chanting, "Whose streets? Our streets!"

 

新“奧德賽”：占領華爾街隊伍今抵華盛頓

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背叛民主的超級委員會試圖壓榨99%，但是他們失敗了！

超級委員會失敗=占領華爾街勝利

今天，一隊從紐約出發的倡議“占領公路”的游行者將到達華盛頓。兩個星期前，他們從曼哈頓踏上這次史詩般的征程。他們的目標是要讓更多的人更多的社區看見這場新運動，在路途中聯合其他的游行者，并推進一場全國性的對話來討論如何挽救我們的民主。

他們的旅程表特意針對所謂的“超級委員會”的聲明。他們要向國會傳達這樣的訊息：結束為富人服務的企業優惠和減稅政策，并且通過重建國家基礎設施和投資教育、清潔能源和公共醫療來刺激經濟。在一輪接一輪的民意測驗中，絕大多數的美國人支持這些項目。

“所謂的超級委員會從一開始就是失敗的，他們試圖背著民主行事。幸運的是，它沒有成功”，“占領公路”運動的組織者邁克爾-格雷澤說，“腐敗的體制內無人有勇氣為普通美國百姓斗爭，所以，我們將繼續采取體制外的立場。

“占領公路”運動的參與者預計今天下午2時30分左右到達麥克弗森廣場，在那里他們將舉行一場全面集會形式的新聞發布會（a General Assembly-style press conference）。之后，他們將從那里向自由廣場（Freedom Plaza）和國會大廈出發，在國會大廈他們將討論美國政府在向國民負責方面的失敗。 

“華爾街擁有華盛頓，我們的政府不代表人民的利益。”占領華爾街運動的志愿者埃德-李約瑟說：“ 國會維護大銀行、大公司和超級富豪的利益。這就是為什么占領運動每天都在壯大的原因。” 

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原文鏈接：http://occupywallst.org/article/march-occupy-wall-street-arrives-washington-dc-tod/

March from Occupy Wall Street Arrives in Washington DC Today

Exposes Failure of Undemocratic Super-Committee Attempt to Squeeze the 99%

Super Committee Fail = Occupy Wall Street Win

Today an Occupy Wall Street initiative called ‘Occupy the Highway’ arrives in Washington DC, having marched from New York City. Two weeks ago, Occupy Wall Street participants in Manhattan embarked on the epic journey. Their goals were to make the new movement visible in more communities, to connect with other occupations along the way, and to further a national dialogue about how to reclaim our democracy. Their journey was timed to coincide with the announcement of the so-called Super Committee; to bring a message to Congress to end corporate welfare and tax breaks for the rich and to stimulate the economy by rebuilding the country's infrastructure and investing in education, clean-energy and public health; items that are supported by the vast majority of Americans in poll after poll.

"The so-called Super Committee was a failure from the beginning. It was an attempt to do something undemocratic. Thankfully it didn't work,” said Michael Glazer, an organizer of Occupy the Highway. “No one has the courage to stand up inside our corrupt political system and fight for regular Americans. So, we will continue to take a stand outside the system."

‘Occupy the Highway’ participants expect to arrive at McPherson Square at around 2:30pm today, where they will hold a General Assembly-style press conference. From there they will march to Freedom Plaza, and from there to the Capitol steps, where they will discuss the failure of the U.S. Government to be accountable to its people.

“Wall Street owns Washington. Our government is not representing the interests of the people,” said Ed Needham, a volunteer with Occupy Wall Street. "Congress is defending the big banks, big corporations and super-rich. This is why the Occupy Movement grows each day."

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附：美國"超級委員會"的潰敗

來源：鳳凰網

美國"超級委員會"的潰敗為削減赤字量身定制的美國國會削減赤字特別委員會（“超級委員會”）２１日正式宣告未能完成歷史使命。美國政界學界無不慨嘆，華盛頓錯失了一次使國家重歸財政可持續道路的黃金機遇。美國“超級委員會”的潰敗，體現的是美國民主與共和兩黨在治國經濟理念上的巨大差異。

圍繞減赤方案失敗，美國兩黨一如既往互相指責，各據其理。超級委員會聯合主席、共和黨眾議員杰布•亨薩林２２日在《華爾街日報》發表文章稱，民主黨要求至少增加稅收１萬億美元，并且不愿對醫療等社會福利計劃進行實質改革是導致減赤談判失敗的主因。民主黨方面則批評共和黨只顧保護富人利益。美國總統奧巴馬說，國會仍有太多共和黨人拒絕聽從華盛頓之外的理性和妥協之聲，仍繼續堅持不惜代價保護只占人口２％的富人利益。

超級委員會為何注定會失敗？原因在于美國兩大政黨之間的經濟理念鴻溝。美國知名專欄作家、諾貝爾經濟學獎得主保羅•克魯格曼說：“共和黨和民主黨不僅有著不同的優先政策，他們根本就生活在不同的精神和道德宇宙。

在民主黨看來，增即為增，減即為減。提高稅率可增加收入，在經濟仍然疲弱時削減開支會減少就業。而在共和黨看來，減卻為增。為公司和富人（即共和黨所指稱的“就業創造者”）減稅，到頭來可以刺激經濟活力，擴大稅基從而增加稅收，而削減政府開支才是創造就業之策。

進一步看，兩黨在經濟正義上的看法亦不相同。民主黨看重社會福利，從社保到食品券，政府要給那些需要幫助的公民提供基本的安全保障。這可以溯源到弗蘭克林•羅斯福總統論自由的名言中的一句：即民眾有不虞匱乏的自由。這種自由，是一種經濟上的融洽關系，有助于從制度上限制貧富分化。而在共和黨看來，福利社會本身是不道德的，不斷增加的醫療開支正是未來美國債務不可承受之重。愛達荷州共和黨參議員詹姆斯•里施曾對筆者說，劫富濟貧本身并不能解決美國的經濟問題。而美國前總統里根“政府本身正是問題”的名言至今仍在共和黨內有根深蒂固的影響。

在總統大選漸近的背景下，“驢”與“象”在削減赤字這一國之大事上再度體現了黨派利益超越國家利益的做法，難免令美國民眾深感失望。各方都認為國會錯過了改變美國財政方向和創造就業的一次大好機會。因為，按照規定，超級委員會的計劃一旦形成并在該委員會內部通過，國會兩院都不得對其修改，而且在參議院只需要５１票的簡單多數就能通過，而無需通常的６０票。而在２０１２大選年要達成妥協的難度將比今年更大。

超級委員會失敗至少傳遞了三個信號，一是繼今夏的提高債務上限之爭后，本次減赤大戰再次見證了華盛頓的癱瘓。國會與白宮的決策機制與領導力令許多美國民眾質疑。二是減赤問題在政治上的迫切程度似乎還未達到重要而緊迫的最高級別。從標準普爾等三大評級公司表示暫時維持美國信用評級就可見市場反應之一斑。第三，兩黨在減赤談判上尚有余地。由于自動削減１．２萬億美元的計劃要到２０１３財年才會啟動，之前這段時間，兩黨還可繼續討價還價。如奧巴馬所言，國會仍有一年時間來解決這一問題。

簡而言之，解決赤字的途徑無外乎從兩方面著手——增收與節支。而在兩黨壟斷話語的美國政治生態下，雙方增加收入的思路迥異，節省開支的誠意堪疑。到頭來，博弈的結果是矛盾后移，而驢與象的激戰仍將不斷上演。