Sunday, November 20, 2011
Occupy Dallas Presses On Despite City's Eviction Protesters March, Rally Saturday As Movement Tries To Put Together Common Message
Occupy Dallas protesters were evicted from their campsite behind City Hall early Thursday morning, but it seemed to not put a damper on the movement.
Saturday saw another day of marching, music and protesting for Occupy Dallas.
"We're trying to re-form, let the city know we're still going to be here, we're still going to do demonstrations, and just because we don't have tents, doesn't mean we don't have a movement," said Cordell Cameron with Occupy Dallas.
"Basically we're here to say you can knock down our tents, you can take our signs, you can do whatever it is that you like to shut us down or to kind of infiltrate or disrupt, but we're here," said Veronica Navarro with Occupy Dallas.
Many said the end of the tent city was not such a bad thing for their mission.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Occupy Dallas is back with downtown protest march
DALLAS — Occupy Dallas protesters got close to the CityLights festivities downtown on Saturday.
About 100 people marched from their original camp at Pioneer Plaza to Main Street Garden Park, the site of an evening tree-lighting ceremony.
It's the first big Occupy Dallas demonstration since the city cleared out the group's campsite at a park near City Hall two days ago.
Demonstrators said that while the city took their camp away, they're still here and not going anywhere
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Shepard Fairey Joins Occupy! See What HOPE Has Become.. { check out new hope poster)
Shepard Fairey, the artist most known for his portrait of Barack Obama which went viral during the 2008 Presidential campaign, is using his art to shine a light on the Occupy movement. After seeing his new poster supporting the movement, above, and reading the accompanying excerpt on his website, obeygiant.com, we spoke with Shepard to discuss the movement as well as the picture in more detail.Check out our exclusive with Shepard:
I stopped by Occupy in New York after everybody was displaced from Zuccotti Park, I gave some stickers out and expressed my support.
"Occupy Dallas" projected onto Verizon bldg in NYC on Thursday night Brooklyn Bridge march
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