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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
ALERT: Impending attack on Occupy Madison (Wisconsin)
Public Health has demanded that Occupy Madison apply for a Special Event Campground permit for the 800 block of the city owned Don Miller property (East Washington and Livingston). Members were informed that this permit was required to be filed by noon Wednesday, November 2nd.
At Occupy Madison’s 26th General Assembly (10/01) it was decided by consensus to not comply with this demand. We are well informed that a process to remove the occupation could follow including citations and arrests. We at Occupy Madison fully expect these events to occur soon after noon tomorrow, the 2nd of November.
Join us in person to stand in solidarity with occupation efforts across the globe. Spread the word as widely as possible. Demand the personal involvement of the mayor. Occupy Madison is not camping. We’re a political demonstration of resistance against austerity well within our rights of free speech and peaceable assembly.
Thank you for the consideration, Solidarity!
“Luchamos en solidaridad con los estudiantes chilenos y la clase obrera”
Japan
(Source: ene-de-nacha)
Police attack Occupy Tulsa; 10 arrested
TULSA, Oklahoma — Police arrested 10 Occupy Tulsa protesters after they refused to leave a city park at 6th and Boston early Wednesday morning.
The arrests happened at 1:45 a.m.
As many as 50 police officers were involved in clearing out the park after officers ordered the protesters to leave.
Police said the protesters were in violation of the park’s curfew.
Many of the 40 Occupy Tulsa protesters left when police made the announcement, but several refused to leave.
Tulsa Police say those who refused to leave grabbed a hold of each other to show they were refusing to leave.
At that point, Tulsa Police started using pepper spray.
The protesters who were arrested were taken to the Tulsa County jail and booked on complaints of resisting arrest and violation of the park’s curfew.
According to Tulsa County jail records those arrested by Tulsa Police include:
- John Harlien
- Amanda Hammack
- Lawrence Black
- Shane Algiere
- Masar Alabdul-Baqi
- Jeffrey Key
- Brittany Mercer
- Samval Molik
- Elias Sliva
- John Vanzant
After posting bond, seven of them returned to the park at 6th and Boulder to continue their protest.
Prevent the closure of Occupy Wall Street
This Alert was sent out originally by the Rebuild the Dream Movement.
Dream Partners and Allies…..
Emergency action is needed to prevent the forcible closure of Occupy Wall Street!
The NYPD and Bloomberg have told the protesters that they’ll be cleaning the park tomorrow starting at 7am and that protesters will be allowed to return after that,as long as they follow the “rules”, which include little things like “No tarps or sleeping bags” and “No lying down.” ”Cleaning” is the same pretext they used to shut down Bloombergville a couple months ago.
So, seems likely that this is their attempt to shut down OWS for good. The folks down there are organizing press conferences for today as well as their own major cleaning operations to show that this is unnecessary. We’re organizing allies to start putting pressure on Bloomberg.
Occupy needs the following help:
For allies to send email blasts to membership nationally asking for phone calls to Bloomberg at 212-NEW-YORK (or New Yorkers can call 311) asking him not to interfere with Occupy Wall Street.
Talking points from folks at the occupation:
1) We see this as a pretext to shut the occupation down. Bloombergville - a 2 wk occupation at City Hall earlier this summer - was shut down in the same way, as was the M-15 encampments in Barcelona and Madrid in late Spring. The Brookfield “rules” — no lying down, sleeping bags, tarps — are untenable.
2) We have an OWS Sanitation Operation, we don’t need the city’s crew. We have been self-governing and self-organized and taking care of our space. We already had a big clean-up planned and we’re moving that forward a day - TO TODAY.
3) If Bloomberg really cared about sanitation here he wouldn’t have blocked porto potties and dumpsters. OWS allies have been working to secure these things on our behalf.
4) We won’t allow them to come in. This is an occupation, not a permitted picnic.
Thanks for supporting the occupation!
SIGNAL BOOST. Solidarity!
Police arrest 8 Occupy Portland demonstrators
Police arrested eight people before dawn Thursday and reopened a downtown Portland street blocked during the past week by protesters supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Officers moved in quickly and traffic was flowing a half-hour later.
Many of the protesters had decided the day before to go along with a request by Mayor Sam Adams to give up the street that divides two downtown parks where a settlement of more than 300 tents and tarps sprang up.
fuuuuuuuck.
Why? The police fucking joined them a few weeks ago. Fuck. I fucking called Kitzhaber’s office. I know a lot of people did.
What the fucking fuck…?
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