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.

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Occupy Dallas To Move This Weekend

DALLAS, TX (KERA) - Barring a last minute hitch, Occupy Dallas protesters will be pulling up stakes in Pioneer Plaza this weekend, and moving to a new location. KERA's BJ Austin reports.

Attorneys for Occupy Dallas, this morning, dropped their request for a judge to block the city from evicting the Pioneer Plaza campers. Under an agreement reached with the city, protesters may set up camp behind Dallas City Hall, and remain there until mid-December. Outside the courtroom Occupy Dallas attorney Jonathan Winocour told reporters a long-term protest is better than a noisy showdown.

Winocour: A brief shout where they all get arrested and hauled off to jail will make you guys happy for a couple of days. Then, the story will disappear.

A majority of Occupy Dallas approved the move at last night's general assembly. But, protestor Kooper Caraway doesn't like it.

Caraway: I'm gonna move. I'm gonna respect the democratic process and that's what democracy's all about.

Caraway says sometimes that means compromise. They have to be out of Pioneer Plaza by 5pm Sunday.

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