Oh, hey! So we just got back from a little bit of raucous community organizing in the name of every progressive cause possible, and let’s just say it was LOUD. Just like they did last year, the folks at Florida Watch Action (the same collective responsible for Pink Slip Rick) and Organize Now! called...
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This is the second in a possibly-occasional series where we provide you with updates on Occupy movements across the country. A copy of issue #108 of a newspaper-cum-zine called Slingshot came across our desks today from Berkeley, Calif. (see above photo). It caught our eye for a couple of reasons, not least of which...
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This is the first in a possibly-occasional series where we provide you with updates on Occupy movements across the country, courtesy of a weekly conference call that we somehow got invited to take part in. About to enter its third month, the Occupy movement has spread from beyond its original home in lower Manhattan...
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Yesterday, the Nation profiled the Occupy movement that has taken shape in Florida, as a commenter on one of our previous blog posts pointed out. The story focuses on many of the issues and concerns raised during the recent People’s Convention of Florida in Orlando, including voting issues, cuts to social services and the...
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All photos by Rob Bartlett. On Sunday, a crowd of people gathered in the plaza outside City Hall in Orlando for Day Two of the People’s Convention of Florida, an Occupy -related event at which various delegations of Occupiers from cities across Florida met to hammer out a series of...
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On Monday, we reported that Occupy Orlando planned to host delegates from Occupy groups across the state for the first People’s Convention of Florida, taking place this weekend. Today, says Brook Hines of Occupy Orlando, the delegates will start trickling in and will meet at Senator Beth Johnson Park (from which Occupy Orlando was...
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OPD may have kicked Occupy Orlando out of Senator Beth Johnson Park on Monday, but Occupiers are a scrappy lot and they’ve still got plans to host the upcoming statewide Occupy event: The People’s Convention of Florida, taking place Dec. 9-11. Delegates from various Occupy organizations from across the state (Tampa, Key West, Miami,...
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Orlando’s third Awake the State rally was held this evening at Senator Beth Johnson Park, which has been more or less constantly occupied by activists from the Occupy Orlando movement since Oct. 15. Since the occupation began, 21 activists have been arrested for trespassing in the park after hours; during the day, it has...
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During the first week of the Orlando occupation, one of the most common sentiments expressed by its participants was that our city’s police officers, unlike those in other cities with active Occupy movements, were not only reasonable, but even “wonderful.” On the morning of Oct. 15, for instance, when the occupation was kicked...
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Beginning at 2:10 a.m. this morning, 19 activists affiliated with the Occupy Orlando movement were arrested for trespassing at Senator Beth Johnson Park. The arrests are the first in the week-long occupation, which had previously been regarded as somewhat anomalous among other Occupy movements for the amicable relationship it had forged with city police. According to...
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