You Can’t Evict a Revolution - The Greanville Post

Pham Binh

At 1 a.m. the New York Police Department (NYPD) began clearing Liberty Plaza of the hundreds of occupiers who camp there every night. People were told to leave with their property or face arrest. About 100 or so refused to move. Some of them chained themselves to trees, others linked arms.

few hundred New Yorkers mobilized via an emergency text message system when word of the impending eviction got out, but they were blocked from reaching the site by police barricades erected blocks away.

Police As Wreckers

5,000 books in the People’s Library ended up in sanitation department trash bins, and as of this writing it was unclear what happened to the numerous pet dogs that were in the park with the occupiers.

Just as ‘too big to fail’ banks foreclose on people without proper documentation, Bloomberg evicted the occupiers illegally. Unlike the banks, he will not succeed. His paper work is not in order. We are not isolated individuals or families up against impersonal, multi-billion dollar corporations. Liberty Plaza will not remain closed forever.

The Whole World is Watching

livestream, the highest number ever.

Every time the NYPD comes down on the movement, the movement grows. After Anthony Bologna pepper sprayed young women near Union Square on September 24, we grew. After 700 activists were lured and trapped on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, almost 30,000 marched on October 5. When Iraq veteran Scott Olson was severely injured after Oakland police shot him in the face with a tear gas canister on October 25, we replied with a November 2 general strike.

The post-repression growth is not only numerical but also qualitative. A month ago, no one would have thought any occupy could pull off a general strike.

This same revolutionary dynamic is at work in the occupy movement, although it has a long way to go before it reaches the proportions, maturity, and intensity to truly threaten the dictatorship of the 1%. Fortunately for us, time only moves in one direction. •

Pham Binh’s articles have been published by Asia Times Online, Znet, Counterpunch, and The Indypendent. All of his writings on Occupy Wall Street and other topics can be found at www.planetanarchy.net.

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