It's a "Brave New World" at OLA/Good Jobs LA action (Eric Richardson/Blogdowntown). The LAPD promises 72 hours notice before using brute force on activists.
Well, that didn't take long. Just as an innovative deal between the City of LA and Occupy LA protesters -- a deal that would have gotten the protesters off City Hall's lawn and into 10,000 square feet of office space -- was floated, it was criticized.
But it may still be in play.
And if it is, it's consistent with the very enlightened stance Los Angeles has taken toward the Occupy Movement since it set up camp at City Hall almost two months ago.
We do the questioning. We don't like being questioned.
And we have ways of dealing with people we don't like.
But it may still be in play.
And if it is, it's consistent with the very enlightened stance Los Angeles has taken toward the Occupy Movement since it set up camp at City Hall almost two months ago.
- This is from the LA Times: Images of cops in riot gear rousting Occupy encampments across the nation have become ubiquitous in recent weeks, as many cities try to prevent the tent gatherings from becoming troublesome permanent fixtures. But Los Angeles has taken a different tack. More
We do the questioning. We don't like being questioned.
- Occupy USA (blog)
- City inching toward endgame with Occupy LA camp
- Success: Occupy Columbia gets restraining order
- South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Alison Renee Lee granted the grass roots group [Occupy Columbia] an injunction that prevents protesters from being arrested on the State House grounds and allows them to use the public areas 24 hours a day and bring sleeping bags and tents.
- When it set up its campsite at Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street was facing in only one direction: toward the financial heart of the planet two blocks away. The police, who promptly surrounded the encampment and organized their own occupation of the neighborhood, were in a sense facing in the other direction.
- The final hours of Occupy Portland
- Occupy Wall Street
- Occupy Los Angeles
- Brad Blog
And we have ways of dealing with people we don't like.
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