Bid to halt no-camping rule for DC protesters denied
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at
9:19 pm
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge denied a petition on Tuesday that would have allowable anti-Wall Street protesters to keep camping – at least temporarily – in two parks in the state’s capital where they have lived for months. The Inhabitant Park Service had banned protesters with the Reside in DC movement from camping in McPherson Square, a few blocks from the White House, early at noon on Monday. Scores of protesters have vowed to remain entrenched at the square and at a second site, Freedom Plaza. The demonstrators have been camped at the parks since October. U.S. …
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As Oakland puts the Reside in movement back in the inhabitant spotlight with TV images of flag burning and violent police clashes, there is a media war going on to define the very nature of the Reside in movement itself, with Oakland as its potential flag-bearer.