Livestream

Occupy Wall Street crowds presently marching in the nighttime streets of New York City with livestream coverage via Tim Pool reporting thousands outraged over the Florida police handling of a deadly shooting of an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin.  The identified killer has not been arrested. 

At the time of this posting, protesters were heard loudly chanting, "We are Trayvon Martin!"  and "Whose street?  Our street!"  Shortly before, marchers headed on to Brooklyn Bridge chanting, "Whose bridge?  Our bridge!"  NYPD followed them with paddy wagons, when the demonstration suddenly shifted direction and went another way.  Tim Pool reports that the protesters shifted directions several times very effectively as a unified large crowd, successfully eluding a number of attempted police interventions.



OWS also reports arrests at Union Square - where OWS appears to be relocating - with police telling demonstrators they are not allowed to have banners.

A couple of hundred energetic demonstrators marched yesterday as well, and via 1 Police Plaza, demanding Police Commissioner Brian Kelly's resignation, and in response to widespread incidents of police brutality and excessive force at the 6 Month Anniversary Celebration for OWS.

Also - Jason Leopold at Truthout is obtaining DHS documents on Occupy Wall Street the reporter previously requested through the Freedom of Information Act - still uploading now as the documents come in from the Department of Homeland Security.  Truthout is also seeking documents under the F.O.I.A. from the F.B.I. and N.Y.P.D.

Union Square

Courtesy of Forgotten Delights

George Washington, by Henry Kirke Brown, dedicated 1856.

South side of Union Square, facing 14th St. between University Place and Broadway. 

Occupy Wall Street reports that a number of demonstrators have moved from Liberty Square to Union Square where several OWS protests have previously converged.  About 70 protesters have slept overnight at Union Square without tents, but blankets and sleeping gear, some calling it "The New Occupation."

The OWS website is providing directions to get to Union Square and a message to NYPD: 

Squash us in one park, we will reappear in another! You cannot evict an idea whose time has come!

Protesters should go to the south side of the park, on the concrete part by the steps.

General Strike

CBS news and The Wall Street Journal report that OWS activists, apparently at a news conference today at Liberty Square, have called for a May 1st general strike over the newspapers' arrest count of 73 individuals. 

I don't see any announcement yet at the OWS website.  However, Union Square - according to Wiki - has "historically been the start or end point for many political demonstrations" in New York City.  Below, a photograph from a 1913 May 1st demonstration from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online:

Courtesy of Wikipedia

Posted by Goldsztajn

Crowd gathered in Union Square, New York City during the May Day parade, May 1, 1913.

Signs in Yiddish, Italian and English. 

Petition

In response to NYPD violence against Occupy Wall Street protesters, YourAnonymousNews is circulating a petition calling for" full, independent investigation by the state Attorney General into the active suppression of the movement by the New York Police Department including, but not limited to:

1. The use of taxpayer funds to infiltrate and monitor peaceful Occupy protest planning

2. Departmental practices that lead to, or allow for, the violent dispersal of crowds and the violent arrest of protestors

3. Civil rights violations of protestors by the police"

Editor's Note:  Revision.  This post incorrectly reported earlier that some protesters had moved to Union Square, with 70 sleeping overnnight without tents at Liberty Square.  The 70 protesters, however, stayed overnight at Union Square.  So this blog is understanding that OWS is, indeed, moving to Union Square, and other news reports since initial posting confirm OWS announcements for a May 1, 2012 General Strike (for example, here).  I suppose developments in the days to come will provide further clarification one way or another about locations and events.