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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#OccupyDallas Communal Library

It's the Inequality, Stupid

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

Way of the World: 'Occupy' Protests Standing Up to Reaganism    

NEW YORK — On a drizzly evening in Zuccotti Park this week, where the Occupy Wall Street protesters are camped out with the modern revolutionary’s gear of iPhone, blue tarp and cappuccino, I spotted one young man wearing a T-shirt with an image of Ronald Reagan and the words “Bad Religion.”

It was the right outfit for the occasion. That’s because the greatest significance of the wave of leftist demonstrations that started in Lower Manhattan and rippled across the United States over the past few weeks is the potential challenge it poses to the Reagan Revolution.     

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Occupy' protests evolved from magazine appeal

Know the role the magazine, Adbusters played in getting this started ! Thanks,  Eh ?

 Early this year, the editors of a Canadian anti-establishment magazine watched Egyptians demanding democracy in Cairo and young Spaniards camping out in city centers to protest high unemployment, and wondered, "Why isn't this happening in America?"
So in an Internet posting in mid-July, Adbusters suggested a time -- Sept. 17 -- and a place -- Wall Street -- for people to make a stand. The editors didn't organize any activists, or even visit New York, but thousands of people took their idea and made it real.
"All of us had this feeling that there was this powerful wave of rage rising up in America that hadn't found its expression yet," said magazine co-founder Kalle Lasn, who came up with the idea for the demonstration with Adbusters editor Micah White.
The Vancouver-based magazine called for 20,000 "redeemers, rebels and radicals" to flood Lower Manhattan and occupy Wall Street for a few months. The crowds have been smaller than that, and another part of the original Adbusters call -- that the protesters come up with "one simple demand" -- has yet to materialize. But the demonstration has created buzz and inspired dozens more encampments across the U.S.

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I Have Come to the Conclusion That Dallas's Occupiers Are a Bunch of Wusses

Wow. I came home late last night from the Occupy Dallas camp at Pioneer Plaza downtown and couldn't get to sleep for the longest. Something about what I had seen down there was tearing me up, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

While I was there last night, I watched as an Occupy Dallas person voluntarily went to the small group of police parked by the curb to report that there had been an unfortunate shoving incident in the leadership tent. It had been resolved, though, and everyone was sorry it had happened. The cops had that "too much information" look.
Also last night, a lawyer addressed the group. He told them that Occupy Dallas was the only Occupy in the country so far where there had been no arrests. They were to be commended, the lawyer said.

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