Occupy Movement Heats Up US South

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/19-1

ATLANTA, Georgia - As the Occupy Movement spreads like wildfire across the United States and around the world, protests in the U.S. South are facing unique challenges.

Occupy protests have sprouted up in countless cities across the U.S. South, including Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Miami, Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana, to name just a few.

In Atlanta, Georgia, the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, the city government has struggled with the question of how to respond to the Occupy protesters who have literally taken over downtown's Woodruff Park with tents and an encampment that has no end in sight.

On Monday, Mayor Kasim Reed issued a second extension for Occupy Atlanta to stay in the park for three more weeks.


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[raccoon]

1. That's great! Having lived all my life in the South, I can tell you there are plenty of dummies

who think people protesting are like naughty children doing something they shouldn't.

I can remember in the pre-war rallies of 2003 a stupid woman stopped at a redlight and
said to the protestors, "shame, shame." :eyes:

[dtexdem]

2. Kasim Reed made a hilarious unclear-on-the-concept statement:

"Civil disobedience is an appropriate form of expression, provided that it is peaceful, non-violent and lawful,"

So civil disobedience is OK so long as it is lawful? Uh .......... ;-)

Isn't civil disobedience by definition peaceful, non-violent, and unlawful?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. They are in Dallas, Fort Worth, Tyler, San Antonio and Austin.

And probably some other cities in Texas.