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26th October 2011

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tsibugan: j-vergara: bylinebeat: (LA Times) Atlanta, Oakland arrests show impatience with Occupy Wall Street More than two months after protesters launched the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, patience is wearing thin in some cities, including Atlanta and Oakland, where police have begun to crack down on local demonstrations against corporate greed and big financial institutions.More than 100 people were arrested overnight in Oakland, and 53, including a state senator, were arrested in Atlanta. The latest actions bring the total number of arrests to between 1,500 and 2,000 since protesters in mid-September took over Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, near Wall Street. More than 700 were arrested in New York City alone and there have been arrests in dozens of cities to which the amorphous movement has spread in the United States.Unlike in Oakland, where police and demonstrators clashed, the scene was calmer in Atlanta as police entered Robert W. Woodruff Park shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday and arrested 53 people. Some of those arrested engaged in acts of civil disobedience. Some went limp, making their arrest more difficult for police in one of the cradles of the civil rights movement that brought such peaceful resistance to its high point in the 1960s. Moar zip ties, pleez. ^ cognitive dissonance

tsibugan:

j-vergara:

bylinebeat:

(LA Times)

Atlanta, Oakland arrests show impatience with Occupy Wall Street

More than two months after protesters launched the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, patience is wearing thin in some cities, including Atlanta and Oakland, where police have begun to crack down on local demonstrations against corporate greed and big financial institutions.

More than 100 people were arrested overnight in Oakland, and 53, including a state senator, were arrested in Atlanta. The latest actions bring the total number of arrests to between 1,500 and 2,000 since protesters in mid-September took over Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, near Wall Street. More than 700 were arrested in New York City alone and there have been arrests in dozens of cities to which the amorphous movement has spread in the United States.

Unlike in Oakland, where police and demonstrators clashed, the scene was calmer in Atlanta as police entered Robert W. Woodruff Park shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday and arrested 53 people. Some of those arrested engaged in acts of civil disobedience. Some went limp, making their arrest more difficult for police in one of the cradles of the civil rights movement that brought such peaceful resistance to its high point in the 1960s.

Moar zip ties, pleez.

^ cognitive dissonance

Source: Los Angeles Times