"Protestors To March On 5th Ave At 5pm
Sounds basically like a flash mob action:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoco...lasio-request/
Now one finds themselves asking, does this sound more about civil rights or economics? The Communist Party has been very active in these 'rallies.'<time itemprop="datePublished" content="2014-12-23T13:33:00-05:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">12/23/2014 @ 1:33PM</time> 3,047 views
Just In Time For Xmas, Protesters Plan To 'Shut Down' One Of New York's Busiest Shopping Districts
A protest planned for one of Manhattan’s busiest shopping districts on Tuesday evening will go ahead despite New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s request for a moratorium on demonstrations.
At least 10 social justice groups including Occupy Wall Street and Millions March NYC are joining forces for a ‘Shut Down 5th Ave’ protest set to start at 5pm eastern on December 23 at the crowded intersection of 59th Street and 5th Avenue, near the flagship Apple AAPL -0.35%Store and toy emporium FAO Schwarz, both tourist meccas.
“Dec 23 is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, comparable to Black Friday,” reads the event invitation on Facebook, which has so far received 1,600 affirmative RSVPs.
“Fifth Avenue is the world’s most expensive shopping street – a playground for the global 1%. This 1% is precisely who the police serve and protect. They flood black, Latino and other oppressed communities like an occupying army so as to intimidate us into accepting things the way they are.”
One of the event’s organizers posted a statement online to explain why the demonstrations are set to go ahead despite Mayor de Blasio’s request that such activities wait until after the two NYPD officers murdered in Brooklyn on Saturday are buried.
“Mayor de Blasio’s call for people to suspend the exercise of free speech rights in the pursuit of social justice and civil rights echoes previous government authorities who over decades have told movements to either slow down, cease activities, or be silent altogether,” a representative of the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism coalition wrote on Monday night.
The group reassured the public that there is no connection between “the actions of a lone, troubled individual” who shot and killed officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu and “the broad social movement that has demanded accountability, an end to police misconduct and police violence.”
“They have gone so far as to assert that there is some connection between this broad civil rights movement, which has included the activities of hundreds of thousands of people across the country, with the violent action taken against police officers on Saturday in Brooklyn,” wrote a representative of Act Now. “This is an act of dishonesty and another grave miscarriage of justice.”
The organizers added that the protest had been “long-planned”, and isn’t intended to incite violence: “We are expecting to have a peaceful protest, and expect the police and mayor to respect our right to do so.”
Tuesday evening’s rally echoes protests held on Black Friday, the notorious sale shopping day after Thanksgiving, when social activists organized a nationwide effort to deprive large retail corporations of some of the African-American community’s $1 trillion-plus spending power in the wake of the Grand Jury’s failure to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
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