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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Project Messages On NYC’s Verizon Building

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In what is definitely one of the more visually stunning manifestations the Occupy Wall Street protest has taken since its inception, demonstrators marching through lower Manhattan Thursday night managed to project messages onto the sides of the Verizon building.

Tumblr blog “This Is The Right One” has the images. Have a look:

RELATED: Live Stream: Occupy Wall Street Marches On Wall Street, Bridges, Subways


And, to truly make this a multimedia extravaganza, here’s video footage of the projections, via Ustream:

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  • Tx4Obama

    They need to put the real messages up there:

    Tax the Millionaires, Billionaires
    Repeal Citzens United
    Get the money OUT OF POLITICS
    GOP, Pass the Jobs Bills
    Healthcare for ALL
    Restore Glass-Steagal
    STOP busting labor unions
    Invest in infrastructure and education
    ETC….

  • Anonymous

    Regardless of which side or how one feels about OWS, this is a brilliant idea.

  • Anonymous

    I would prefer one that read, “Congress – Resign or be Fired.”

  • Anonymous

    It appears that we’re going to have to add graffiti to the growing list of the ‘Occupiers’ childish behavior.

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd
  • my2centshere

    N17 is alive and well in NYC. Oh and tell the mayor that Batman can take the day off.

  • Anonymous

    “We are winning”

    Another example of “Believe in one hand, crap in the other and wait to see which one fills up first”

  • Anonymous

    how do the OWS clowns have time to do this while also terrorizing kids on the way to school, raping, drug dealing, assaulting police and shooting up the White House?

    If only they put all this misguided energy towards actually getting jobs.

  • Anonymous

    Of course you refer to Harry Reid and the Senate – which are very much a part of Congress.  Reid is the one who will not allow jobs bills – already passed by the House – to come before the Senate.  That’s why nothing gets done.

  • Anonymous

    LOL!!  Excellent spokesman for OWS.  Total idiocy.

  • Anonymous

    Like Goebels said to Hitler, “Tell a lie often enough and soon they will believe it”.  That’s what these poor fools are doing.  They never represented 99% of the people…more like 0.99%.  What have they accomplished?  Obama, Wall St. and their avowed enemies go on as usual, while they get sick, drugged out, raped and sleep out in the cold.  In other words, nothing but a show for the TV cameras and the nightly news.

  • http://twitter.com/NoMazzNoMazz Rick Thatsme

    What they’re not telling you is that they’ve been doing this for weeks now, except it was during the daytime, lol.

    Actually, “We Are Winning” sure sounds like something Charlie Sheen might say. 

  • Anonymous

    OWS Protesters Chant ‘Follow Those Kids!’ As Small Children Try To Go To School On Wall Street’ from CBS new york.   Scared little children being attacked while going to school.  serious, where is the humanity?  

    http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/17/ows-protesters-chant-follow-those-kids-as-small-children-try-to-go-to-school-on-wall-street/

    Mayor Bloomberg allowed the violence to gain traction, he’d better ensure the safety of it all  

  • Anonymous

    Of course I refer to the entire Congress, all of whom are culpable here. Note that not one appropriations bill has cleared the GOP led house. Not one budget since the Dems took over in 2006. And last night, late at night when nobody was looking, the GOP House and the Dem Senate passed another Continuing Resolution. Both sides promised to stop doing that, yet here is another one. And when Obama signs, it, he can add his name the the 434 liars on the Hill that need to leave DC. He made the same promise.

    So, the entire Congress. Both sides. They have all failed.

  • Anonymous

    As to the Senate being why nothing gets done, will you then stipulate that the GOP minority there has stopped almost every bill by filibuster? Just like the Dem minority did until 2006?

  • CalFed

    OF course, no mention of the protestors intimidating second graders will be found anywhere on this website, save for the comments section…

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget a constitutional amendment which limits corporate campaign financing and establishes publicly funded campaigns.

    Oh, wait, you have ‘get money out of politics’…  Oops :)

  • Anonymous

    It’s a projection of light.  How is that graffiti? 

  • Pablo

    The movement’s PR efforts drew derision from Fraser P. Seitel, managing partner of Emerald Partners and author of The Practice of Public Relations. OWS, he says, has “botched an opportunity to capture public opinion and achieve something. Americans, by every measure, distrust the politicians who run Washington and lead major institutions. So public opinion was ripe for the plucking.”

    However, the movement blew it by having no overriding purpose, stated goals, or visible leadership, he says, and it is increasingly perceived as a bunch of publicity-hungry complainers intent on disrupting others who are making a living.

    “Occupy Wall Street is right about one thing,” he says. “The whole world is watching. And it’s generally repulsed by what it’s seen.”

    They are 99% of the people New Yorkers want to punch in the face.

  • Pablo

    Yesterday was THE DAY THEY CHANGED THE WORLD! and you can hardly find OWS here. They failed to accomplish any of their stated goals, and yet barely a word here.

    This is what a big stupid failure looks like!

  • Pablo

    ZOMG! They’ve got a projector!?! They’re unstoppable!!!!

  • Pablo

    Absolutely not. How many bills has the Dem majority simply tabled? The House passed 3 different debt ceiling bills. Only one of them ever got so much as a minute’s debate in the Senate, let alone a vote.

  • Pablo

    I’d settle for Throw Them All Out

  • Anonymous

    That is absolutely correct, Pablo. But, how many bills has the GOP House refused to vote? Lots. It is both sides using Congress as a permanent campaign mechanism. And that misuse of their office and abandonment of their responsibility that has locked us into this mess.

    Yes, the Dem Senate simply refuses to look at what the House sends over. They should at the very least allow it for a vote. But, when there is going to be a vote the GOP minority issues an almost automatic filibuster. On the House side, the GOP majority simply refuses to consider anything that comes from the Dems – which simply continues the practice Pelosi had of ignoring the House Republicans.

    We have heard McConnell make the Senate Republican’s priority defeating Obama in 2012. His privilege to say that, but also a severe dereliction of duty. And we have repeatedly heard Minority Leader Pelosi on the House side refuse to honestly work with the GOP majority. In other words, they are much like 6 year olds squabbling over the sandbox at recess.

    At the end of the day, it can be a partisan – and therefore vaguely dishonest – issue that tries to blame one side or the other, or it can be what it really is, which is the abject failure of the entire Congress to even attempt to fulfill their Constitutional responsibilities.

    All of them must go.

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    It’s pretty obvious who these “OWS protesters” are, isn’t it?

    They’re Far Left Blog commenters. Without a doubt that’s who they are. One of the far left commenters here at Mediaite is an Occupy Portland idiot.

    This is why Mediaite and MSNBC give them positive coverage…the OWS loons are their brethren and customers.

  • Anonymous

    Certainly very cool, and I’m sure a generation that has largely had its politics spoonfed to them by Hollywood loved having their very own “bat signal”. Very slickly done by the 99 percenters’ shadowy 1 percenter puppet masters.

  • http://twitter.com/CorporaCallosa J.C. Cleaver

    Do they have a specific deal with Verizon that I missed? Or are they just the unlucky recipient of the OWS’s ire with a convenient structure.

    Also, IIRC projected images were considered either graffitti or harassment or something (trespass?) in a Midwest case… I wonder if someone could find the guys running the projector and blast a light in their face, or a laser pointer at the projector to disable it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Juli-Kring/834934039 Juli Kring

    re:” If only they put all this misguided energy towards actually getting jobs.” 

     You mean like the GOP promised to do, you moron?  Remember how the GOP & teabaggers where all “We’re going to get America working again, Get the goverment *out* of people’s lives” before they gained some power & NOW it’s all ban gay marrige & birth controll.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rachel-Styles/100002941940990 Rachel Styles

    Americans blame the federal government more for the nation’s economic plight than they do the primary target of the Occupy Wall Street protests — big financial institutions. If you don’t know why people are protesting on wall street, this article gives a very good explanation on it.

    http://explainlikeakid.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-people-are-protesting-on-wall.html

  • Anonymous

    Maybe they just misspelled, “We Are Whining”. After all they have been doing it for two months now.

  • Anonymous

    There is one huge and glaring problem with your premise. I leaves out the part the Democrats/liberals play in not letting the positive changes take place.

    You guys were all for the hopey-changey thing, but when it comes down to it, that’s pretty much of a one way street for you.

    And the left keeps wondering why they are opposed in their goal of the neo Euro America…

  • Anonymous

    Holy carp! We are doomed!!!

  • Anonymous

    How is publicly funding campaigns getting money out of politics? The only thing that alters is the source of the funding. Instead of donor dollars, you want them to dip into taxpayer’s money?

    Sounds like a lot of double-speak.

  • Anonymous

    Proof of that is non existent. Try again.

  • Anonymous

    Sense the pattern here? The reason they don’t cooperate is because of the pork and riders each side attaches to the bills which could not get voted on if submitted on their own. Obama pledged to end the politics of lobbies influencing government during his first presidential campaign, yet he played the game as a Senator from Illinois, and later did nothing to even slow it down as president. So much of what this man promised has been nothing but lies to get elected I can’t understand why people still support him.

    He’s the biggest liar we have ever had in the White House.

  • Sandie

    That exclamation looks fishy to me dood,………LOL.

  • Whilee

    I heard Verizon is looking to charge for projecting a sign on their building. It could run in the thousands.

  • Anonymous

    It gets rid of the influence campaign donations have on politicians.  Even with private donations, those with more money can donate more money, leading to them having increased leverage over the politician to whom they donated.  As such, the poor have not really been represented because they don’t have enough money to donate to politicians.  Politicians find no need to address the needs of the poor specifically because they know they aren’t going to get any money from the poor.

  • Anonymous

    It takes money away from the funding government has to spend on legitimate expenses. Since all politicians have money of their own, they should consider funding their own campaigns, but as long as someone else is paying the bills they don’t care that it takes a million dollars for them to get a two hundred thousand a year job.

    Your concern for the poor is touching, but how much have you really done personally? Most of you socialism sponsors give lip service to the subject of the needs of the poor but show little real effort. I donate to food banks locally, and volunteer to serve meals to veterans during the holidays at the vets home. There is a lot more that people could do at little or no personal expense, but most don’t do anything at all.

    Politicians need to self fund campaigns, then maybe the inundation we experience now of political sermonizing would stop and they might even try to make themselves known to the electorate to get votes instead of pandering to the money.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3JKFTM74TKIZH5LKGBGCQ6B4XY K

    To sum up what you said the projection should be 

    GREED IS GOOD

    since it is what OWS is believing in for themselves.

    Now then in regards to what you actually did say, man how truly wrong you are.

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