Monday, January 30, 2012

Occupy dc

  • Washington (CNN)-- Protesters occupying two Washington parks say they will stand their ground if National Park Service police come calling Monday to enforce a law against camping.
  • (CNN)
  • WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Park Police began enforcing a camping ban in two Washington D.C. parks Monday as protesters gathered under a blue tarp they called the tent of dreams. Park Police spokesman Sgt.
  • (United Press International)
  • From my perspective as a veteran of student protests, the activists and hangers-on among the Occupy DC groups have gotten off easy.
  • (Washington Examiner)
  • Occupy protesters have defied a noon police deadline to remove their camps or face arrest in Washington DC. They have erected a tent of dreams around a statue in McPherson Square as part of their protest against eviction.
  • (BBC News)
  • The noon deadline Monday for Occupy D.C. protesters to stop camping in McPherson Square and another federal park passed without confrontation, but the rancorous group danced, played music and draped a gigantic blue tarp over a statue of Civil War Gen.
  • (Washington Times)
  • At 6pm a group from the Occupy DC camp decided to head to the Capitol Hill Hilton Hotel to protest the Alfalfa Club(*) and its members.
  • (CNN)
  • After a three-month lull at the Occupy Oakland camp, protests again turned violent Saturday, as a peaceful rally at City Hall deteriorated into destructive clashes between protesters and police.
  • (Washington Post)
  • A bus load of supporters from New York just pulled up to McPherson Park. Twenty more came in from Philadelphia. Five more are waking down 14 St. from Baltimore. Its getting crowded at McPherson Park, one of the two parks at Occupy DC.
  • (OpEdNews.com)
  • Protesters have been camping out at McPherson Square since October. Credit:Amanda Wilson WASHINGTON, Jan 30, 2012 (IPS) - Two days after some 400 people were arrested during a protest organised by Occupy Oakland on the U.S.
  • (Inter Press Service)

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