Occupy Wall street in Australia? Aka Occupy

As we have seen in the recent developements Occupy wall street has spread EVERYWHERE! all accorss america, even to the fields of farms to Europe and now Australia! Today in Sydney at Martin place protestors set up lounges and picket signs protesting out front of the Federal reserve bank Australia (RBA), police where called in to remove lounges and tents, eventualy the riot squads where called in and one man was arrested for cuffing his neck to a truck as he was being spoken to by police he said "why are you aresting me, my belongings are in that truck". More info provided below:

Police seized belongings, including tents, from protesters who had planned to camp in Sydney's city centre last night as part of the international Occupy Wall Street protest against corporate greed. One protester was arrested.

Riot Squad officers, including police on horseback, attended the protest in Martin Place.

About 200 people remained at the protest, Occupy Sydney, that had begun during the day and is based on the Occupy Wall Street movement started in September.

Advertisement: Story continues below The group had set up a camp of tents and gazebos outside the Reserve Bank earlier in the evening and organisers had said they planned to occupy the site for days.

One of the organisers, Mark Goudkamp, said police were staging "a massive show of force" when they arrived and removed tents and equipment from protesters.

"It's a completely disproportionate response. The biggest threat we posed was maybe a few people singing on a guitar," Mr Goudkamp said.

Police said the protesters would not be allowed to camp overnight but could remain in the space.

One of the protesters, university student Remy Low, 28, said he had protested most of they day and planned to stay the night.

"The sense of people here is that there is a systematic problem in society and significant change is needed," he said.

At least 500 people also gathered at City Square in Melbourne yesterday carrying banners and calling for an end to "greed".

Speakers in Sydney urged protesters to bring corporate power to account and to reject the policies that have "enriched 1 per cent of the world's population at the expense of the other 99".

Occupy Wall Street organisers, relying heavily on Facebook and Twitter to garner support, were hoping for demonstrations overnight in 951 cities across 82 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Protest at RBA Australia

reply to post by Tahnya86


I live in australia, and im seeing smaller un televised occupy groups everywhere.

We'll see what happens in Perth when CHOGM starts.

But that will be indeed a particularly nasty thing to protest with all the security.