Cincinnati saw its first protest based on Occupy Wall Street yesterday, and it was an amazing sight!
I got back from my Big Bend trip last night, and I was able to get down to the Occupy Cincinnati protest on Fountain Square at about 10 PM. There were still about 500 people there, and I heard there were about 4,000 earlier in the day - likely dwarfing any local Tea Party event.
All you've heard lately about Fountain Square is that 3CDC owns the place, so get with the program. In reality, however, Fountain Square is publicly owned. It wasn't until the 2000s that 3CDC was created to mismanage it. Nonetheless, authorities warned beforehand that if any Occupy Cincinnati participants remained on the Square after 1 AM today, they WILL be arrested.
Unfortunately, I became deathly ill at about 1 AM and had to go to Christ Hospital. In all likelihood, I was suffering from gallstones, according to the nurse at the hosp. But here's the best part of the story: About 10 or 20 people remained on Fountain Square all night in defiance of the 3CDC-inspired Allowed Cloud. Although police repeatedly lectured them in an attempt to convince them to leave, not a single arrest was made.
Long story short: Occupy Cincinnati wins. It's dawned on city leaders and local corporate powers that the world is watching, and they weren't about to lay themselves wide open for any more criticism. There reportedly was some whining from a nearby corporation that feared the rally was scaring its privileged clientele, but nothing became of it.
Locally, the Establishment is starting to learn we mean business. For 30 years, Americans have stood idly by while being economically ruined and watching basic civil liberties be mortgaged at a daily clip. But no more. We're fighting back at long last, and it's working. If the actions of the past couple weeks can be sustained, I think America for the foreseeable future will be very, very different from that of the awful decades of decay we experienced.
As Gandhi once said: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Meanwhile, the Occupy protests have spread to over 1,100 cities.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Occupy Cincinnati wins major battle
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I am surprised we are only protesting. I was expecting citywide upheavals. Give it time... If the Republicans in Ohio get their way, bargaining rights will be taken away from the police leaving less of them on the street. You can't stop riots without enough police. And do you honestly think that by f*#ing with the police they will even be interested in stopping people who protest....hell, they might just join them.
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