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In the interest of sharing the pictures and with consideration for the snails pace that my article of the October 15 protest is going, I promised myself that I'd take Ben Joseph's ((hugs)) suggestion and feel free to focus on the pictures. While it's a Herculean effort to curtail the editorials, here's the awesome spectacle from Saturday.
Occupy Wall Street Protesters marching up 6th Avenue in numbers that took about 30 minutes for the procession to pass entirely. It was a river of peaceful outrage flowing through the streets like a great flood that made you feel proud and happy to be swept up in it.
I'm not much for crowds or being penned in so I planned to come out of the Herald Square subway at 34th Street and feel my way up toward Times Square on foot. Thanks to the Live Stream it wasn't too hard to guess when to be there and thanks to four hundred and seventy billion other cameras there was no pressure for skipping multiple other, crowded events.
The overwhelming sense was that of endless continuity as the lines of marchers poured by. My hope is that these convey the enormity of the space the protesters Occupied and the remarkably, average American look that makes it impossible to differentiate between the 99% marching and the ones watching from the sidewalk.
If you can't guess I'm a climber and will try to scale anything for another inch more. With crowds like this it serves me well to get up higher and see above the crowd. Very often its a fleeting chance as some official watcher of the places no one should be, race to ask me to move.
If you're one of the many who helped me down from a perch today, thanks so much for giving me the shot from a better vantage. My focus shold be so lucky. From top to bottom they are in order taken moving uptown, past Bryant Park, beautiful back side of the Public Library!!
This is the crowd about 5:30 in the heart of Times Square. It was daylight but between the Broadway Neon Effect and NYPD spotlights on the crowd it looks pinkish in the photos.
