Summer Disobedience School Now in Session!
After the high drama of #noNato, it was back to grassroots building at Occupy Wall Street with the new summer disobedience school series. I found a great group of dedicated occupiers and new faces in Bryant Park on a very muggy early afternoon at the start of the Memorial Day Weekend, all in all about 200 strong.
Read the full reportback here…
Civil Disobedience on Wall Street: Yesterday’s protesters following the weekly Spring Training session, and those protesting at Federal Hall, were met with an aggressive police force just outside the building where the Bill of Rights was drafted.
A Sleepless Night at Occupied Wall Street—check out our first-hand account of last night’s #sleepfulprotest, met with police.
Since being evicted (and re-evicted) from Liberty Plaza, Occupiers in New York started a new encampment in Union Square where they faced nightly closures of the park by police. In response, occupiers have developed a new tactic: sleeping on sidewalks. Some have chosen to sleep in front of banks, others on Wall Street itself. This comes from a twelve-year-old court case called Metropolitan Council Inc. v. Safir which states that sleeping on sidewalks as a form of political protest is protected first-amendment speech. This page will serve as a place for first-person stories from occupy’s newest front-line – the sidewalk.
April 7th was a day of renewal for Occupy Chicago, gearing up for the spring. A witness of the day’s events shares his view of the day’s actions.
![The Battle to Re-Occupy Minneapolis:
As planned, groups met today [Saturday, April 7th] in both Loring Park and Peavey Plaza at 12-noon. Around 2:00pm Minneapolis Police officers came to Peavey Plaza to state to us that we were in violation of a state law (609.74) in which our tents, banners on strings, and tarps were in violation of the law and were to be considered as a public nuisance. This was, of course, the first that we had heard about such a law in the state…
A report from Minneapolis featuring police intimidation, arrests and marching through the streets.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m26wf0wves1r6pxazo1_1280.png)
The Battle to Re-Occupy Minneapolis:
As planned, groups met today [Saturday, April 7th] in both Loring Park and Peavey Plaza at 12-noon. Around 2:00pm Minneapolis Police officers came to Peavey Plaza to state to us that we were in violation of a state law (609.74) in which our tents, banners on strings, and tarps were in violation of the law and were to be considered as a public nuisance. This was, of course, the first that we had heard about such a law in the state…
A report from Minneapolis featuring police intimidation, arrests and marching through the streets.
