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‘Protesters file for permit to “Occupy Congress” Jan. 17‘ (WashingtonPost.Com, By Katie Rogers, Dec. 28, 2011)

There’s no signature show in the image of that document. And besides, what part of the First Amendment do folks not understand?

Today at 9:00 AM Pacific Time Occupy Bellingham was evicted from Maritime Heritage Park. The police showed up in full riot gear, something they hadn’t used since they were purchased 8 years ago, if I’ve got the facts right.

Right now the Occupiers are occupying the lobby of City Hall and having a General Assembly there. I don’t yet know what the plan is next for the occupation.

Yes, the visibility of so many homeless, camping together, is too much now for Santa Fe. Woo Woo rules.

I learned from unhoused in ABQ that people on the streets don’t sleep at night, they move from one place to another to find warmth and be safe. Sleeping is for daylight hours, when there is some sun and where one is visible so as to remain un-killed or otherwise un-dead from the elements.

Cities may labor under the illusion that dispersing people will disperse and dilute the movement. When spring comes, we will be back in bigger numbers than ever.

Thank you Occupy Supply for helping to keep people warm and for providing solidarity. Thanks Jane for the team that makes it happen.

Thanks so much for keeping us posted. Let us know how they fare, and best to everyone at Occupy Bellingham.

Is that Bellingham City Hall on the #BhamOccupy live stream up right now?

Very important to note here:

”Police in Santa Cruz say they “need the public’s help to identify protesters in the photos” of occupiers who stormed a former Santa Cruz bank building and occupied it for three days earlier this month. ”

The police are trying to claim that these people are the same as those involved with Occupy Santa Cruz and they have used that as a pretext to crush the movement as a whole. As I said in my recent blog post, local media are making this claim as well.

As the Occupy Supply Liasion to Occupy Santa Cruz I can tell you these are two DIFFERENT groups. OCS wants this clearly stated.

I learned from unhoused in ABQ that people on the streets don’t sleep at night, they move from one place to another to find warmth and be safe. Sleeping is for daylight hours, when there is some sun and where one is visible so as to remain un-killed or otherwise un-dead from the elements.

Yup. You can hear the sound of shopping carts being pushed through the streets of Portland at night during the better weather– the same time the police like to do raids on #Occupy.

The clap-on, clap-off anonymity and accountability claimed by government officials and government employees such as the police don’t escape my notice.

The surfeit of concern for the health and safety of the homeless that led Homeland Security local police to raid occupy camps where they had food and a place to sleep and drive them into the safe hygienic conditions of back alleys and freeway off ramps was truly touching.

Indeed, Jane! There’s a reason there are trending hashtags commenting on such hypocrisy whether such actually registers in the POTUS’ daily briefing (supposedly since 2009) or not. I remember things like this every time I witness electioneering of those in uniform.

Exactly

Check out this really good essay

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Another misconception is that Occupy Sacramento participants are all homeless drug addicts or students living and breathing utopian ideals. That is resoundingly false. The reason people believe this is because of the sheer amount of homeless people that reside on the streets of Sacramento. There is only one homeless shelter in the downtown area (and it is always full), the police and city government have given up all hopes of helping. This is an “our” problem, as there are hundreds of homeless in the downtown area.

College students are a key part of the movement, but they make up about 10 percent of the hard-working occupiers that make up the core—we are nurses, veterans, lawyers, doctors, teachers, sales people, chefs, artists, state workers, bus drivers—the list goes on and on. The bottom line is that we are daring to dream of something better. If you think the world could be better, then you are already one of us.

Now here is a fact to be put in the open. Each day, with a few exceptions, we have fed every single homeless person in downtown Sac. The reason that there isn’t a 24-hour-a-day center for food and shelter in Sacramento is because our city council is too busy considering subsidizing a new Fuddruckers to recognize this fact. If we are allowed our constitutional 24-seven peaceful assembly, then, as a by-product, every hungry person in downtown Sacramento will be fed and given a blanket or other essential items. Also, the park is cleaner than it has been since the city removed the roses, and we have the ability to change from “wino park” to Cesar Chavez Plaza. In fact, we can make the park a beacon of safety and education in our community.

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6 more paragraphs explaining the how, and the why of Occupy, much better than I ever could

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/dont-hate-us/content?oid=4618023

On a related subject: As of this very second, the city is rounding up the homeless at a camp along the river. We had word from the people trying to set up a Safeground that the city would move against them and the expectation was that the city wouldn’t do so until after the the holidays. But I have a feeling that the city found out that there was going to be a legal observer training tomorrow specifically to address this issue, so my theory is they acted before they thought we could mobilize. And it worked for me because I can’t get down there tonight, but I know many others who are there observing

Out-going Mayor Dan Pike explains his “rationale” for ousting #Occupy Bellingham

Dan Pike will turn the Bellingham mayor’s office over to Kelli Linville on January 1, 2012. Pike ticked off a lot of Bellinghamsters by evicting #Occupy three days before he leaves office! I don’t know of anyone who felt unsafe at Maritime Heritage Park due to the protesters. BS! And, the park looks damned good for this time of year! Kinda muddy — but this is the PNW!

Yes, it was

Occupy Bellingham is still occupying Bellingham City Hall at 6:34 PM Pacific Time, which is on the Occupy Bellingham Live Stream.

We will have our weekly march on Friday and then a General Assembly. I expect we’ll have closer to the numbers we had when we first started in solidarity with OWS, which was in the hundreds, than the numbers who have been actually occupying, which is in the dozens. We probably won’t be as big as then since the University is on break and a lot of our students are out of town.

If anyone is near Bellingham, we could use the numbers on Friday. Our march is at 4:00 and begins at the corner of Cornwall Avenue and Magnolia Avenue, which has been the site of peace vigils every week since the Vietnam War and then expanded into Occupy last Fall.

I really wonder about folks who pop in and out of tax payer purcha$ed bullet-proofed tanks, SUVs, limos, air planes bristling with every surveillance and RF jamming electronics known to human kind, hardened secrud vault facilities and safe houses. You see in them in public and they’re running around underneath flack jackets pounding their shields. Why would anyone in this extremely short and fleeting existence want to spend their mental time in that space and their life consumed by those activities?

“Jet Song” – West Side Story

The eviction is now documented on Occupy Bellingham’s webpage.

There you can see video, get links to the articles of the press, see photos and learn about Occupy Bellingham’s next step: occupying foreclosed homes or small businesses with permission of the foreclosed owner.

The video of the response of the occupiers to the police ordering them to leave is very moving.