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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Occupy Dallas March from Goldman Sachs 10-15-2011 [video]

Over 350 turn out for OccupyDallas solidarity march #OccupyDallas Press Release

Over 350 turn out for OccupyDallas solidarity march

Dallas, TX, Oct. 15, 2011 — Dallas Police estimate that over 350 people attended the OccupyDallas solidarity march Saturday. The protest was coordinated with occupy movements across the United States as a show of unity between the several hundred occupations currently taking place. One protester, Wendy Crow reported that "As we marched, people were getting out of their cars and joining us."
                At 1 p.m. Saturday, protesters gathered together at Pioneer Plaza and began the 2 mile march to the Goldman Sachs building. Protesters carried signs, shouted slogans and raised their fists in the air in vocal opposition to the financial institutions which the marchers blame for the economic crisis. Crow, 35 year old resident of Waxahachie, has been involved with the group since October 6. Her husband Phillip operates the OccupyVeterans Facebook page and Twitter account. When asked why they joined the movement, Crow replied, "We believe that people can change, that there is good in the world and we want to be able to tell our children that when this happened, we were there."

12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement from Alternet



As Occupy Wall Street protests spring up in cities across the country, authorities are thinking up creative ways to contain this peaceful and inspiring uprising. Although laws and municipal ordinances vary from city to city, there is a consistency in the tactics being used to stifle the movement. More importantly, as demonstrated by the protesters at Zuccotti Park who kept strong in the face of a looming eviction that never came to fruition, these maneuvers are not working.
Still, there is no shortage of justifications and rationales behind the constantly evolving schemes being implemented to destroy the spirit of Occupy Wall Street. Here are 12 desperate and unsuccessful measures the authorities are using to discourage, deter and crack down on peaceful protests.

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Occupy Dallas, City Agree to Move Protests from politics.gather.com

Cities around the country could take a page or two out of the city of Dallas' playbook in terms of working with the Occupy Wall Street protestors. The local protest, Occupy Dallas, and the city leaders came to an agreement on where to stay prior to a court that was set for Friday, October 21.
Local attorney Cameron Gray, who has offered his services pro bono to the group, told reporters that two issues were of major concern for both parties involved. He said, "There are two real issues or forces that need to be balanced together. One of them is the right of the city government to take care of its park, and the other is the First Amendment rights of the protesters to be able to express their grievances, to assemble peacefully and address their grievances to the government."
The right of the government to take care of its space, balanced with the right of the people to gather to protest. Sounds reasonable, right? In New York, Boston and now Rome, police and protestors have come to blows, mostly due to the police making the first swipes with their night sticks. Arrests have been made wholesale, people have been maced, and even news reporters have been victims of police brutality. All this over the question of whether the people have a right to gather in various spaces. But in Dallas, no arrests have been made so far, and no violence has broken out. And, city is letting them stay -- just not in Pioneer Plaza.

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Support #Occupy Movement Libraries !

Greetings from the librarians of #occupywallstreet!
We write today to invite you to help build the People’s Library. We are working together to build a library for both the people of the city and for those who have joined the occupation. We are a mixed bunch of librarians and library-loving individuals who strongly support the #occupy movement and who also know that information is liberation. We liberate through knowledge. If you want to know more about #occupywallstreet and the #occupy movement please read the Principles of Solidarity and the Declaration of Occupation.

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People's Library HERE
People's Catalog HERE

#OccupyDallas has a library and is always in need of reading materials.

Former Dallas mayor seeks 5,000 signatures urging Obama to denounce Occupy Wall Street


Senate hopeful, former WaMu board member Leppert funding anti-Occupy petition drive

If you’ve been curious about U.S. Senate candidate and former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert’s take on the Occupy Wall Street movement, well, wonder no more. Friday afternoon, Leppert unveiled his campaign’s effort to steer the national discourse, with endoccupy.com.

The site features a photo of screaming young people, waving signs with anti-war, pro-environment and pro-jobs messages, over a black-and-white video backdrop of slow-motion footage from the New York City protests (for the full zombie-flick effect, you can watch the video on its own here).

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The Courts At Feel-Good Hearing, City and Occupy Dallas Hash Out Deal to Move Downtown Campsite

A hearing this morning at the Earle Cabell could have been a First Amendment showdown over Occupy Dallas's right to remain in Pioneer Park in downtown. Instead, it became a simple formality after protesters came to a late-night agreement to move to a plot of city-owned land at Akard and Canton, behind City Hall, per a request from the city.

Lawyers from both sides complimented each other's willingness to compromise in a conversation that sounded very much like a hug feels.

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Occupy Dallas Can Continue Downtown Protest [Video ] CBS-DFW

10 Ways to Support the Occupy Movement from Yes Magazine


There are many things you can do to be part of this growing movement—and only some of them involve sleeping outside.

The #OccupyWallStreet movement continues to spread with more than 1,500 sites. More and more people are speaking up for a society that works for the 99 percent, not just the 1 percent.
Here are 10 recommendations from the YES! Magazine staff for ways to build the power and momentum of this movement. Only two of them involve sleeping outside:

1. Show up at the occupied space near you.

Use this link to find the Facebook page of an occupation near you. If you can, bring a tent or tarp and sleeping bag, and stay. Or just come for a few hours. Talk to people, participate in a General Assembly, hold a sign, help serve food. Learn about the new world being created in the occupied spaces.

2. Start your own occupation.

Use this Meetup site. Or call together friends, members of your faith group, school, or community group. Reach out to people from parts of your community you don’t normally work with. Unexpected alliances keep the movement from getting labeled as partisan or representing only some people.

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Report after Bringing Donated Water to Occupy Dallas by @douglaslucas

On October 11 2011, with the help of a friend’s warehouse club card, I purchased 392 20-oz bottles of water (and elsewhere, some gas) using donated money entirely, for the purpose of bringing bottled water to the Occupy Dallas (Twitter) group. I was going to make a table of the ten donation amounts, complete with mean, median, and mode, but my other friend who’s a whiz at statistics told me that with such a sample size, I’d be making a complete fool of myself to post anything other than gross and net. Here you go: $100, $100.