re: #2 Obdicut

The drummers go at it for a couple of hours, take a break, and get right back at it. You can sometimes hear it above the din of work at 4WTC, which is diagonally across the street. The drummers usually form up on the west side of the park near Church, while the majority of sign protesters have stayed to the Broadway side of the park.

During the lunch hour, the drummers usually get a decent crowd of gawkers, particularly the construction workers who are trying to get around the area to the restaurants on Liberty.

I’ve got to believe that the businesses in One Liberty and the immediately adjoining blocks are driven nuts with that incessant banging, but then again, we’ve grown accustomed to the work at Ground Zero so it gets drowned out.

As for the issue of anti-Semitism, there are currents of it there, and it is a concern but if the “leaders” can push them out, they will do the OWS a great service.

What we don’t see from the OWS is a condoning of such signs or ignoring that the problem is there. That’s a far cry from the TP protest organizers, who claimed that it (or racism or other forms of bigotry) weren’t there (or still aren’t there) - when they’re all too present.