The holiday news lull is officially over, and we’re back into the swing of things with a ton of news and links this week. The biggest film news of the week might be that The White House seems to be siding with the “tech companies” (aka everyone in the world who doesn’t draw an...
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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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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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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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Though tonight’s forecast calls for 90 percent chance of rain, the activists rallying under the banner of Occupy Orlando are nowhere close to leaving Senator Beth Johnson Park–that’s not an option. Instead, they’re building a small village of structures out of donated tarps and sleeping in their cars; some are staying in personal tents...
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It’s 1 a.m. and the core group of activists rallying under the banner Occupy Orlando, having vacated the park two hours ago at the request of the Orlando Police Department, is still marching. Because it is legal to walk on a sidewalk, hold signs, and even chant at any given hour, activists have decided...
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