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Complete with a sign reading “We are a movement, not a TV plot,” New York’s Occupy Wall Street protesters made their way last night to “occupy” a Law & Order: SVU set in New York’s Foley Square that featured a mock-up of the protesters’ onetime camp at Zuccotti Park. The replica included a library and a kitchen like at the original site, which was taken down last month by the city. The plan was for SVU to shoot this morning one of its ripped-from-the-headlines episodes featuring a story with the camp as a backdrop. But protesters, evidently not fans of that idea, changed that: In the end, after the NYPD came in to clear out the crowd, producer Dick Wolf Films saw its film permit rescinded sometime overnight, and no scenes were shot. Dick Wolf Films and NBC have declined comment so far. Here’s a video from the event:
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Crash ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Set; Filming Permit Pulled
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Damn, why didn’t I think of this! I’m so sick of various flavors of L&O filming in my hood over the years.
They are “peacefully assembling” to protest others exercising their right to freedom of expression by trespassing on to a closed set.
I guess you can only have freedom of expression/speech if you support what the “mic checking” jackasses deem you to express.
Good…I’m glad they made fun of this. Because I have NO DOUBT that L&O’s portrayal of the protestors would have been totally stereotypical. God I hate procedurals.
Ironic since Dick Wolf was undoubtedly set to make heroes out of tese mindlessly chanting twits.
I would like to thank OWS for not allowing me to work on set today.
Now my paycheck will be smaller and put me at risk of not paying my rent. A protest is good for about a week, then you should realize that it’s time to do something rather than continue complaining. Develop a plan, start your own business, do something good for once. Your 15 minutes is over. Now get out of my way so I can work.
Let me get this straight… a bunch of idiots trespassed on their shoot, which they were properly permitted for… and the city RESCINDS THE SHOOTING PERMIT?
So now protestors know that all they need to do to shut down the film business is to “occupy” one of their locations. Way to stick it to all those greedy PAs, gaffers and grips… whom we all know are wealthy one-percenters.
Shutting down a production which employs dozens of blue collar workers?
Good job, you pathetic Occupy Movement idiots!
One more reason for decent working-class citizens to loathe the selfish communist morons of the “I Want Other People To Pay For My Mortgage And Student Loans” Movement.
Law And Order.SVU would have likely added a human element to the plight of the so-called, 99 per centers. The episode would have likely been pro 99 per centers. But, the crowd mentality of the 99 per centers killed it. This was a gift, and they threw it away….
Calm down, guys. They didn’t stop a shoot. There was no shooting going on. They did’t shut down anything. They went to the location the night before the crew was going to shoot, they walked around the empty set mocking it and shooting a video — they didn’t stop anyone from working since no one was working, and when the cops showed up they left peaceably . There was no indication they would have interfered with the shooting the next day. But the city and the cops over-reacted by pulling the film permit.
It is reasonable to assume they would be back the next day. They are self proclaimed (as you hear the video at 1:45) rebels, and they love being rebels for the sake of being rebels without a clear cause and feeling cool. They even have their own fashion trend – the middle eastern scarf that you see activists wearing regularly at protests. This is a lifestyle and culture and anything that attracts it will continue to be a magnet for continued protests.
What do we want?
We don’t know!
When do we want it?
NOW!
You all know the production people will get paid anyways. They already received their calls… Doesn’t take on penny away from anyone, except the corporation that funds these shows (and Im sure this will go in as insurance claim anyways). Did producers really think occupiers wouldn’t catch wind of this?
The only “losers” in this movement are from people refusing to look into what the movement is about and it for damn sure isnt “I Want Other People To Pay For My Mortgage And Student Loans”
1. Corporations should not have the same constitutional rights as human beings.
2. Mortgage companies FRAUDULENTLY and KNOWINGLY sold sub prime mortgages to disproportionately black and brown communities knowing they would default and lose their houses – creating the housing crash.
3. Tuitions in the UC system (PUBLIC EDUCATION) has skyrocketed from $5k a few yers ago, to $12k currently, expected to reach $22k by 2015.
If you’re going to slam the movement, at LEAST look into what its about. These are only a few of the issues we are tackling.
“These are only a few of the issues we are tackling.”
Tackling? Tackling how? By sleeping in parks, pounding on drums, and literally parroting everything you hear? Not to mention the rap sheet — what is it, up to 400+ arrests now? Color me underwhelmed.
“Only a few of the issues we are tackling.” A protest’s goal can only be achieved if people know what your goal is. “Occupy” is protesting so many things, even if everyone wanted to meet their demands, it would still be impossible to physically do all of them. The movement is ridiculous because there is no unifying goal. It’s not possible to meet your demands, everybody wants something different, and most of the complaints are based around entitlement. BY THE WAY, nobody is entitled to ANYTHING.
People are getting maced in the streets and arrested for a movement that is unfocused.
Oh, and now they’re obstructing an execize in free speech. I don’t care if it’s a TV show, people wrote it, I see that as free speech.
If Corporations should not have Freedom of Speech then neither should Unions or any other group.
The US Gov via Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac caused the “sub-prime” mortgage debacle with help from bigots in Congress threatening banks who did not make loans to people unworthy of having them.
UC costs are rising due to Unions being overpaid, too much “pie in the sky” thinking (ie “save the planet” nonsense), and a failure by students to understand they are NOT paying full price for THEIR education. Now that that the well has run dry, the Unions (Teachers especially) are NOT going to take a pay cut; so they make you pay more. BTW Student Loans have also driven up the cost of college by making it TOO EASY for people to go.
isn’t it interesting that only Government jobs have increwasing pay even though there is a glut of workers for those jobs? it’s called graft, corruption, and bought off politicians.
This is what happens when the Gov steps into the free market; it goes off the tracks. I know; it’s beyond your comprehension.
The OWS are just pawns of Unions, Socialist, and Democrats; the people who caused the problems.
I think you guys are all confused. No one lost their job on the SVU crew, they are still shooting the episode, they just won’t be able to use that location, they’ll move that scene to some other location. Shows loose locations all the time at the last minute — production doesn’t shut down.
The OWS people didn’t cost any crew members a dime — in fact, some members of the crew probably got some OT out of it to move the location at the last minute.
One of the odd things about the entire Mockupy affair is that protesters could not get a permit from the city to exercise their constitutional rights at Zucotti Park, but Law and Order SVU, with their deep mainstream media pockets, had no problem not only getting an overnight permit to set up their mock OWS set, but also enjoyed police protection as if was their private property. This makes it very clear who the police protect and serve–those with clout willing to pay.
Nothing wrong with paying for a service, but when such payment purchases the protection of a public municipal police force in a discriminatory manner, it highlights what OWS is about on so many levels it staggers the imagination. Note that OWS ate a few donuts from the “people’s kitchen” and left as soon as the police arrived without arrest or penalty. The irony of the situation was not lost on New York’s finest and a good time was had by all, except for Law and Order SVU, whose shooting schedule was interrupted by the pre-emptive action of NYPD to strike the set.
You can’t buy this kind of press for love or money!
they have a constitutional right to live in a private park they don’t own.
?
Highly doubtful. SVU is a show about sexual assault. You figure it out.
Apparently, according to the NYtimes, SVU didn’t have even a permit to build a set on Foley Square. Permit to film but no permit to build a set. So the OWS people were performing a public service by pointing out SVU’s violation.
Now now. They’re not, by your argument, entitled to free speech.
FWIW: the protestors vandalized the set, looted the set (watch their video), and harassed parking PAs. It wasn’t a thoughtful, non-violent protest, but rather a mugging.