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You can’t evict an idea whose time has come: 

A panel discussion on the Occupy Movement and Civil Rights

Wed, Feb 15th, 6pm, at City Hall (301 w. 2^nd st.)

Speakers from the Texas AFL-CIO, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Occupy Austin

Nationally, mayors and city councils have coordinated attempts to evict the Occupy movement wherever protesters have gathered. Whether it is in parks, city property, or open space, Occupy protesters have found that cities provide fewer and fewer places for people to gather, organize, and protest collectively. 

Many of these evictions have been violent, not because of the Occupy movement, but because of the police forces which have routinely harassed, manhandled, and intimidated protesters.  Alongside the criminalization of protest, city officials have engaged in a smear campaign against the Occupy movement calling it “unsanitary,” “expensive,” “unfocused,” and “violent.”

City officials, though, have not had to answer for the erosion of civil liberties that is at the heart of their repression of the Occupy movement.  It was, after all, only because of the symbolic “encampment” that the message of the Occupy movement received the national and international attention that it did. 

Join us for a panel discussion on the legal and political implications of these evictions.

Happy 3 Months!!!  The problem hasn’t gone away, why should we?

We got the cover of the Chronicle!

http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2011-12-30/occupy-austin-2011/

the funniest austin photo yet!!!

littlebrave:

Playing a tune for #occupyaustin (Taken with Instagram at Austin City Hall)

digestingteacups:

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