"Occupy Miami" Invades Bayfront Park Tomorrow: 2003 FTAA Protest All Over Again?

• let's take back america and let's do it with God on our side LETS HUMBLE AND PRAY 

• i wish we humans start to understand this . nice words . 

• Right, the Jews are responsible for all the ills of the world.  Get educated, haters.

• So far, you are both missing the point.  We are gathering in the name of a future that works for many more.   We have to really work harder and longer for a future that will work for everyone.  Your petty little knit picking is only the scab that keeps getting scratched off..;it will fester and become another cancer...........We are working together to eradicate the cancers that already exist in all of the antiquated systems that run this out of date Corporation USA.  Be kind.  Be aware and be helpful, always.  We are all members of the same DNA club.

• Hush peon!  Go wash my yacht post haste!  I have a dinner party at 9:00 with some fellow fat cats from the oil and banking industries.

• Yes of course, because "flow of traffic" is the first thing on the list of concerns and why the gathering is occurring in the first place. I am sure the protesters do not want any attention given to them, so they will just quietly gather and just have a picnic and a good laugh.  Remain status quo and enjoy your commerce and current "flow"

• Ruin the party? These people aren't worried about us. They're not worried about anything. They're rich. No matter what happens, these people just keep applauding. The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party Only the fat cats change — not their methods and not their pet bugaboos (taxes, corporate regulation, organized labor, and government “handouts” to the poor, unemployed, ill and elderly)

• It wasn't a protest, just a meeting to set up a future protest. BTW, its "crowd" not "crowed"

• I saw the crowed standing without any signs of protest, but with several water coolers. Nice. Crowed of People equals to a Crowed of Cattle. No shepherd? Miami people has no guts to stand up like it does NY. Have you ever seen any changes done b/c of people demanded so? But have anonymous forums to post to. This is your slave life forever and ever. 

• Violence??? I was right, you are stupid.

• So how'd the picnic go?

• way to belittle attempts to make positive change in a time of poverty and desperation, michael miller. are YOU happy with the status quo?

• Dear Glass Slipper: Did you think you may be too stupid to "get" how many things actually the government does for you benefit? Go ahead and throw all the bad stuff at them (e.g. unemployment). When somebody throws your own bad stuff at you (e.g. traffic disruption or noise) just call them "blind". You know better, right? All they need to do is to cope with all the downsides of your "necessary protest", and in the end they will realize all the great benefits they are actually getting with it, and will of course feel the need to thank you for it. Unless of course they are simply too blind.

• Well, the whole point of civil disobedience is to bother people, the people who are otherwise ignorant of the situation, apathetic about it, or otherwise unaware. The point is to take to the streets, non-violently loose your frustrations and shake things up; to taste the exhilarating freedom that comes with calling out and shouting down injustice; to disrupt business as usual until there is no one that can continue to ignore the elephant in the room. But I agree, nothing has to get rowdy. The best protests are funny and peaceful

• Just tell me how us old folk with bad backs can help!

• THIS IS NOT AN INVASION: WE ARE LOCAL NATIVES.

• Did you seriously call these people "...socially responsible hipsters..."? I can not imagine what would encourage you to belittle these protesters in such a manner. Those taking part in these protests cover generational, racial, political and gender divides like no other movement alive in America. Michael Miller, you should be ashamed of yourself. Consider the job market for journalists-what is your degree and experience worth? 2.5 cents per word? Or is the market the reason you've spun this as you have? Is the problem that you don't want that black mark showing you've sided with those who want you to earn a decent wage, want you to be able to actually write with freedom again? To the people reading this, don't be fooled by the spin coming out of the media. Visit  http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/  and https://occupywallst.org/  to learn what this movement is really about. 

• JOIN IN AND LET'S GET 100 MILLION CITIZENS ALL OVER THE NATION TO REVOLT AND GET RID OF THESE THUGS..THERE'S MORE OF US THAN THEM.ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT..AND IF A COP TRIES TO USE PEPPER SPRAY ON YOU OR YOUR GROUP...MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SOME YOURSELVES AND SPRAY THOSE EVIL THUGS BACK BEFORE THEY SPRAY YOU...IT'S TIME TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THESE GREEDY,NASTY EVIL RETHUGLIES...(repukelicans)

• we'd need to start with not paying them less!

• images will be posted to eyeworksproduction.com/blog

• The Zionist Federal Reserve System, has been sucking the World dry for 100 years using USA currency around the globe backed by absolutely NOTHING. For us Americans, they have charged interest on the money they print for us, creating our huge national debt.. The Criminal Banking Cartel, is not to Big to fail, it WILL fail. the 99% of the public, have had enough!

• So what's the solution? Pay the working class more?

• You're more concerned with traffic than the movement? Lame.

• under this system wage slavery is virtually the only option for working class people......so why demonize people who work for corporations.......are you opposed to people doing what they can to survive?

• you call for respect....and then you follow that up with an anti-Latino slur?!  You're a pathetic hypocrite. And, by all means, PLEASE fight your own battles.  Expend all your energy.

• Not only does Michael Miller characterize tomorrow's event incorrectly, but his take on what's happening in NYC - 'a sit-in clogging up Wall Street?!' - really makes me hope that he doesn't show up tomorrow.  New Times has been a misnomer and irrelevant for progressives for quite some time - it's a great bourgie consumers and sex addicts guide - but I didn't realize it actually had become Crotchety Old Times.

• Violence- exertion of PHYSICAL force so as to injure or abuse. I believe the word you're trying to find is Insult. You exhibit an exemplary selfless attitude, and understanding of the English language to boot.

• Pretty silly. No protest will stop corporations, only way to stop them is stop giving them money.  Just another dirty hipsters meeting. I miss the hippies now, at least they didnt smell as bad as a hipster.

• I fully support this protest and i'll probably be there, but a V for Vendetta quote? come on we can do better than that... that's just kind of silly.

•  Allow me to live my life in peace and i'll do the same for you !!  how about that...let me continue to be ignorant...protest...go i'm all for it...just don't bother people and don't get roudy when others dissagree.  its real simple.

• ok - out of 100 % of the people there are 59.73 % who work 9 to 5 for a big corporation [ let s say that ] , does this brings any understanding to the world ? no , just an answer to something that has nothing to do with the reason of " this meeting " . So let s say you got your answer , what is your next step ? what is the teaching ? what are you looking for pointing that [ even if a real situation ] . Because you were born in a family of doctors can t you try to set better standards in medical insurances that rip of people , while you still live in your home ? unfurl pls , will do great to you .

• Who wrote this!? Were not protesting tomorrow!

• Silly reacting?  Confusing people?  Er no.  It was a valid question. I just wanted to know how many people who were a part of this movement just sucked it up and got a 9 to 5 job at a big corporation.

• Occupy Bayfront Park?  I'm not sure that accomplishes anything.  Maybe occupy a downtown drawbridge at rush hour: you'd simultaneously block land and water traffic. Good luck!

• @ sir sausage : pls what does that , have to do with anything - don't try to keep people attention in a wrong way , trying to confuse them . you can still have an opinion about things even if you work for them . i work for a corporation , mostly all do , but that has nothing to do with trying to make them better or just trying to have the world not that contaminated about corporations  . And i am saying this even when i am not part or even agree with this movement 100 % . Please ! open your mind [ So how many members of this movement work for large corporations?  Just curious ] : that is something that hurts the future of this world , a mind like yours . . . pls do us a favor and start thinking . Not just mere silly  reacting . 

• Interesting.  Well, its their constitutional right. 

• if obama had made even a single step towards stopping financial crimes occupy wall st probably would have never happened.

• So how many members of this movement work for large corporations?  Just curious

• Not literally but, without this response, it seemed implied with reference to only one person.  Thanks for the clarity. 

• did i say democrats aren't part of the problem?

• apathy is our greatest enemy. shall we disrupt you now or wait until the destruction of our economy finally affects you enough to be involved?

• cointelpro. 

• Perfect example of how you guys react when others disagree.  Violence; calling me stupid is a prime example.  I DON'T CARE FOR YOUR FIGHT.  I will fight my own battles.  MY WAY.  all I'm saying is respect...do you need me to write this in Spanish or is it just your grammar that's a bit off. 

• Too bad you are too stupid to realize that this "little getty" is for your benefit also. Your mind might not be able to handle such a thought right now but maybe in a few months or a few years from now you will finally "get it".

•  . is a great cause or meeting ,i wish for the best results for the people that believe in something , so important these days . But you can see the way people already respond in comments , even if they are police officers , people from the cause or real people . i wish the next REAL STRONG revolution is not against corporations and money but to promote to educate our people , the world , how to start actually caring for ourselves first as human beings , there is no respect on the streets , no caring on the expressway and there s no love on the people . The responsible there are no corporations , even when everything is related to the everything .  A tree starts with a seed .

• Default? Let's not forget Clinton laying in bed with Chinaand paving that road, just saying.  And, as far as banks, everyone's beloved Messiah(Obama) is no better either in his treatment of them.  Again, just saying.  I know, everything is Bush's fault.  Should I quote, Lincoln?

• um ok fine have your little getty and make some noise but don't be dirty and disrupt people who don't really care about your fight. 

•  that'd be all well in good except the only cure for that is default and Bush stole that right from homeowners in 2005 and then again with the TARP bailouts. 3 years now of the banks not dying & all we get is suffering. it's time to turn the tables.

• FINALLY! coverage

• Hate to burst your bubble but the exaggerated real estate market was not just corporations or politics.  Well, yes, they helped facilitate with the loans being easier to obtain.  However, lets not forget the millions of Americans who thought they were Trump and over extended themselves by purchasing $450K homes making $35K a year. 

•  ...alan moore needs to be arrested as a ringleader of a global terrorist syndicate...

• HA, thanks for the laugh - not even close. 

• This is only a meeting to get ourselves organized.

• what can you expect from the new times? they exaggerate everything

• oh no the businessmen are late for their meetings in high rises & appointments with personal trainers! freedom be damned i must make this dental appointment!

• True! We are just going to have a calm meeting. They want to already give us bad rep

• you sound like a cop

• This article is a total exaggeration! What's going to be held tomorrow at Bayfront Park is an assembly to plan a protest action. We're not occupying anything yet!!

• Oh no, please don't disrupt the peddling of cheap goods and overpriced real estate! What are the weekenders going to do? Drink at home?

• Just don't block traffic and distrupt the flow of commerce.

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