At 3PM, thousands of students, workers, and other supporters gathered in Union Square chanting "Shut the city down!" and using the People's Mic to share stories of how banks and corporate greed have impacted the 99%. Simultaneously, Occupiers took to multiple subway stations in all five boroughs. The day of action culminated when the student strike, labor unions, and various OWS groups took over a number of streets in Lower Manhattan on their way to Foley Square before marching across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Students chanted "CUNY should be free!" and "Student Power!" as they took to the streets along 16th and 5th Avenue, shutting down traffic and leaving police powerless to respond. Police attempts to erect barricades along 5th Avenue failed to block the march, as banners reading "OCCUPIED" were seen along New School buildings.
Huge crowds marched down Broadway toward Foley Square to join another large contingent of labor unions and fellow Occupiers. Despite a massive police presence and helicopters circling overhead, protestors took Foley Square, as marchers converged and supporters poured from the subways. Over 30,000 joined as one, marching across the Brooklyn Bridge, and proving to the world that an idea whose time has come cannot be evicted. The 1% might steal our homes, but they cannot steal our truth.

Live Updates

• 8:40 pm: People's Assembly currently happening on Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge; several hundred others are returning to Liberty Square
• 8:23 pm: There is now a people's library, a marching band and a projector on the Brooklyn Bridge, according to @occupywallst people on the ground
• 8:05 pm: SEIU President Mary Kay Henry being arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge
• 8:00 pm: City councilor Jumaane Williams may have been arrested at the foot of Brooklyn Bridge
• 7:54 pm: General assembly held at 8 at the Korean War Memorial Park, just past Brooklyn Bridge.
• 7:52 pm: From @John Harkinson, thousands of people with music, signs, honks of support. Everything peaceful.
• 7:30 pm: The column marching on Brooklyn Bridge stretches about a mile long. From http://www.emergencystream.com/video_streams/NY/NYC3/a.html
• 7:22 pm: chant: "we are unstoppable, a new world is possible!"
• 7:15 pm: a massive banner reading "Occupy Wall Street" was dropped from the overhang of the pedestrian walkway on the Brooklyn Bridge in full view of traffic; hundreds of cars seen honking in support
• 7:09 pm: A Light Show on Brooklyn Bridge is projecting "99%", "Occupy Earth" "we are winning" and other slogans of support on the side of the Verizon Building. Followed by "Happy Birthday OccupywallstNYC" Reported by @occupywallst
• 7:06 pm: Police scanners estimate the crowd at 32,650 people. Reported by @jstetser
• 7:01 pm: Entrance of Brooklyn Bridge City Hall station closed.
• 7:00 pm: One source gives around 2,000 protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
• 6:44 pm: https://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/AnalectFilms/status/137290008620052481/photo/1 - Taking Canal St.
• 6:42 pm: http://twitpic.com/7fjlrc - On the Brooklyn Bridge.
• 6:35 pm: From TheOther99, reports of NYPD intimidating the press, told Tim Pool he would have his press card revoked if he was arrested.
• 6:30 pm: City Hall is locked down, from @JoshHarkinson
• 6:15 pm: 20,000 marching towards Brooklyn Bridge from Foley Square, chanting "Whose Bridge? Our Bridge!"
• 5:30 pm: #OWS shuts down Canal St.
• 5:25 pm: NYPD cavalry begins to be appear on Centre Street.
• 5:16 pm: 90 Fifth Avenue occupied by students from Pratt, Columbia, NYU, Hunter pic.twitter.com/lBNwUwpJ
• 5:07 pm: more police sirens heard headed toward Foley
• 5:00 pm: chant: "Bloomberg beware, Liberty Square is everywhere!"
• 4:57 pm: thousands more run south on 7th Ave, evading NYPD barricades to meet Union allies and thousands more who are continuing to mass at Foley Square
• 4:53 pm: Ydanis Rodriguez, NYC Council member who was arrested during raid on Liberty square, spotted at Foley
• 4:52 pm: marchers headed from west end of 14th after cut off by police barricades
• 4:47 pm: 5th ave has been shut down!
• 4:42 pm: thousands outmaneuver Billionaire Bloomberg's publicly funded private army at 14th and 5th ave and head West on 15th
• 4:40 pm: music and chants can be heard emanating from Foley Square
• 4:32 pm: as other marches continue heading down Broadway and from Liberty Square, 7th and 6th st are reported to have been taken by protesters
• 4:26 pm: Foley reported full of protestors, NYU students still on their way; other feeder marches (including from Liberty Square) also en route
• 4:26 pm: face off between marchers and a small number of police who are trying to prevent access onto 5th Ave
• 4:13 pm: headed toward Foley Square, thousands of students and friends stream out of Union Square and into the streets chanting, "Whose streets? Our streets!"

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新“奥德赛”：占领华尔街队伍今抵华盛顿

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背叛民主的超级委员会试图压榨99%，但是他们失败了！

超级委员会失败=占领华尔街胜利

今天，一队从纽约出发的倡议“占领公路”的游行者将到达华盛顿。两个星期前，他们从曼哈顿踏上这次史诗般的征程。他们的目标是要让更多的人更多的社区看见这场新运动，在路途中联合其他的游行者，并推进一场全国性的对话来讨论如何挽救我们的民主。

他们的旅程表特意针对所谓的“超级委员会”的声明。他们要向国会传达这样的讯息：结束为富人服务的企业优惠和减税政策，并且通过重建国家基础设施和投资教育、清洁能源和公共医疗来刺激经济。在一轮接一轮的民意测验中，绝大多数的美国人支持这些项目。

“所谓的超级委员会从一开始就是失败的，他们试图背着民主行事。幸运的是，它没有成功”，“占领公路”运动的组织者迈克尔-格雷泽说，“腐败的体制内无人有勇气为普通美国百姓斗争，所以，我们将继续采取体制外的立场。

“占领公路”运动的参与者预计今天下午2时30分左右到达麦克弗森广场，在那里他们将举行一场全面集会形式的新闻发布会（a General Assembly-style press conference）。之后，他们将从那里向自由广场（Freedom Plaza）和国会大厦出发，在国会大厦他们将讨论美国政府在向国民负责方面的失败。 

“华尔街拥有华盛顿，我们的政府不代表人民的利益。”占领华尔街运动的志愿者埃德-李约瑟说：“ 国会维护大银行、大公司和超级富豪的利益。这就是为什么占领运动每天都在壮大的原因。” 

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原文链接：http://occupywallst.org/article/march-occupy-wall-street-arrives-washington-dc-tod/

March from Occupy Wall Street Arrives in Washington DC Today

Exposes Failure of Undemocratic Super-Committee Attempt to Squeeze the 99%

Super Committee Fail = Occupy Wall Street Win

Today an Occupy Wall Street initiative called ‘Occupy the Highway’ arrives in Washington DC, having marched from New York City. Two weeks ago, Occupy Wall Street participants in Manhattan embarked on the epic journey. Their goals were to make the new movement visible in more communities, to connect with other occupations along the way, and to further a national dialogue about how to reclaim our democracy. Their journey was timed to coincide with the announcement of the so-called Super Committee; to bring a message to Congress to end corporate welfare and tax breaks for the rich and to stimulate the economy by rebuilding the country's infrastructure and investing in education, clean-energy and public health; items that are supported by the vast majority of Americans in poll after poll.

"The so-called Super Committee was a failure from the beginning. It was an attempt to do something undemocratic. Thankfully it didn't work,” said Michael Glazer, an organizer of Occupy the Highway. “No one has the courage to stand up inside our corrupt political system and fight for regular Americans. So, we will continue to take a stand outside the system."

‘Occupy the Highway’ participants expect to arrive at McPherson Square at around 2:30pm today, where they will hold a General Assembly-style press conference. From there they will march to Freedom Plaza, and from there to the Capitol steps, where they will discuss the failure of the U.S. Government to be accountable to its people.

“Wall Street owns Washington. Our government is not representing the interests of the people,” said Ed Needham, a volunteer with Occupy Wall Street. "Congress is defending the big banks, big corporations and super-rich. This is why the Occupy Movement grows each day."

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附：美国"超级委员会"的溃败

来源：凤凰网

美国"超级委员会"的溃败为削减赤字量身定制的美国国会削减赤字特别委员会（“超级委员会”）２１日正式宣告未能完成历史使命。美国政界学界无不慨叹，华盛顿错失了一次使国家重归财政可持续道路的黄金机遇。美国“超级委员会”的溃败，体现的是美国民主与共和两党在治国经济理念上的巨大差异。

围绕减赤方案失败，美国两党一如既往互相指责，各据其理。超级委员会联合主席、共和党众议员杰布•亨萨林２２日在《华尔街日报》发表文章称，民主党要求至少增加税收１万亿美元，并且不愿对医疗等社会福利计划进行实质改革是导致减赤谈判失败的主因。民主党方面则批评共和党只顾保护富人利益。美国总统奥巴马说，国会仍有太多共和党人拒绝听从华盛顿之外的理性和妥协之声，仍继续坚持不惜代价保护只占人口２％的富人利益。

超级委员会为何注定会失败？原因在于美国两大政党之间的经济理念鸿沟。美国知名专栏作家、诺贝尔经济学奖得主保罗•克鲁格曼说：“共和党和民主党不仅有着不同的优先政策，他们根本就生活在不同的精神和道德宇宙。

在民主党看来，增即为增，减即为减。提高税率可增加收入，在经济仍然疲弱时削减开支会减少就业。而在共和党看来，减却为增。为公司和富人（即共和党所指称的“就业创造者”）减税，到头来可以刺激经济活力，扩大税基从而增加税收，而削减政府开支才是创造就业之策。

进一步看，两党在经济正义上的看法亦不相同。民主党看重社会福利，从社保到食品券，政府要给那些需要帮助的公民提供基本的安全保障。这可以溯源到弗兰克林•罗斯福总统论自由的名言中的一句：即民众有不虞匮乏的自由。这种自由，是一种经济上的融洽关系，有助于从制度上限制贫富分化。而在共和党看来，福利社会本身是不道德的，不断增加的医疗开支正是未来美国债务不可承受之重。爱达荷州共和党参议员詹姆斯•里施曾对笔者说，劫富济贫本身并不能解决美国的经济问题。而美国前总统里根“政府本身正是问题”的名言至今仍在共和党内有根深蒂固的影响。

在总统大选渐近的背景下，“驴”与“象”在削减赤字这一国之大事上再度体现了党派利益超越国家利益的做法，难免令美国民众深感失望。各方都认为国会错过了改变美国财政方向和创造就业的一次大好机会。因为，按照规定，超级委员会的计划一旦形成并在该委员会内部通过，国会两院都不得对其修改，而且在参议院只需要５１票的简单多数就能通过，而无需通常的６０票。而在２０１２大选年要达成妥协的难度将比今年更大。

超级委员会失败至少传递了三个信号，一是继今夏的提高债务上限之争后，本次减赤大战再次见证了华盛顿的瘫痪。国会与白宫的决策机制与领导力令许多美国民众质疑。二是减赤问题在政治上的迫切程度似乎还未达到重要而紧迫的最高级别。从标准普尔等三大评级公司表示暂时维持美国信用评级就可见市场反应之一斑。第三，两党在减赤谈判上尚有余地。由于自动削减１．２万亿美元的计划要到２０１３财年才会启动，之前这段时间，两党还可继续讨价还价。如奥巴马所言，国会仍有一年时间来解决这一问题。

简而言之，解决赤字的途径无外乎从两方面着手——增收与节支。而在两党垄断话语的美国政治生态下，双方增加收入的思路迥异，节省开支的诚意堪疑。到头来，博弈的结果是矛盾后移，而驴与象的激战仍将不断上演。