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Thursday, October 13, 2011

City Hall Yesterday, Caraway Visited Pioneer Park. But Tomorrow, They Occupy a Federal Courtroom.

One week ago today we walked alongside the Occupy Dallas-ites as they marched from Pike Park to the Dallas Federal Reserve airing their laundry list of grievances, echoing those who stormed Wall Street almost a month ago and never left as their ranks swelled. But in the week since, the story in Dallas has been less about corporate greed and bank bailouts than it has a fight over Pioneer Park between City Hall and the convention center, where the occupiers popped up a makeshift tent city and turned their camp-out into a First Amendment fight with city officials who granted the group a permit on the condition they got a million-dollar insurance policy. That didn't happen. But this did late Thursday:

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