Soon in your hands: Occupied Wall Street Journal #1

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1. I hope information on the legal aspects of everything will be carried as quickly as

possible. Example: neo-con types started talking about the group not having a permit when the mace event came up. They claimed that the protest was illegal. I think it was six days after the event that I saw the information about Zuccotti Park being open to the public. Earlier I had seen something written that the group was moving uptown when the chaos with the police occurred. So they were not in the Park?

It took me an entire week to cover those details.

I am one who tends to believe that protesting legally is important because neo-con/tea party types can simply dismiss everything if they can claim or even prove that the protesters deserved what they got legally. Whether outright lies, or propaganda twisting, or blatant wishing is the impetus for condemning the critics/whiners - those creeps should not be given any impetus.

I also know that there is a debate among earnest protesters about making breaking the rules. I can't abide violence (from turning over garbage cans to lighting cars on fire) so I know where I stand on extremes. At the same time, my other reason for keeping it all legal is that I don't want protesters giving Bloomberg and Wall Street ammunition to kill the protest. I feel illegal is the shortest way for others to kill the campaign.

Even though corpacracy tv isn't covering this - they probably are going to have to.

Thanks to all the protesters and those who are preparing this Journal. Emphasize the legal and the official statements.