City to city, officials are deciding it is time for occupiers to pack up and go home. And, city to city there are occupations that are just springing up or re-establishing themselves in new areas of cities.
Canada, for example, has at least four occupations facing eviction. Two have been evicted—Occupy Calgary had their tents removed by police and firefighters and Occupy Quebec City had their camp moved out by police and firefighters as well.
Various Calgary occupiers had their own personal property seized because they did not know authorities would be stopping by to evict them.
Occupy Montreal faces eviction, as the mayor has ordered the encampment to leave Victoria Square, but occupiers have not followed the mayor’s order.
In Toronto and Ottawa, occupations have been given eviction notices. The order to evict has not been enforced yet. They both have been waiting to see what happens as other Canadian occupations are taken down by authorities.
Back in the United States, Occupy Santa Rosa in California was raided by police early in the morning.
Two occupations re-established camps: Occupy Oakland setup in a large lot at 18th and Linden Streets in West Oakland. The lot adjoins a home that is supposedly facing foreclosure. As images and video of the pepper spraying of UC Davis students continues to be shared (and an Internet meme becomes a new craze), Occupy Davis setup a camp. And Occupy Newark just established a camp days ago.
Firedoglake’s premier live blog continues now. I am on a bus to Occupy Albany and will be covering this dynamic occupation this evening. Here is a Twitter list to follow for the latest.
7:38 PM Police shenanigans continue at Occupy Chicago

7:29 PM Here are a couple photos from Occupy Albany:


7:26 PM Visited Occupy Albany earlier. I brought FDL’s Occupy Supply fund to them and talked to some occupiers I interviewed about the campaign. I and FDL member Sarah went and picked up some batteries that were delivered to the occupation.
1:53 PM Washington Post has live updates from DC, where Occupy Wall Street protesters that marched from New York to DC are going to hold a press conference at Occupy DC and then go temporarily occupy an area near the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall
1:45 PM Chicago Mayor Rahm Manuel gets “mic checked”
1:19 PM First an officer told them they could have tents and then participants of Occupy Boulder were given citations. Add this to the other previous stories related to Occupy Denver and it seems like Colorado is one hard state to hold an occupation.
1:15 PM Los Angeles city wants Occupy LA off the city hall lawn and officials are hoping they have an offer the occupation cannot refuse. For $1/year, Occupy LA would have 10,000 sq. ft. of downtown office space. The city also claims they would give them a place to farm and “additional housing for the Occupy homeless contingent.”
1:08 PM Group tries to “mic check” President Obama at his New Hampshire speech. According to The Hill, Obama supporters started chanting, “Yes We Can” to drown them out. President Obama asked all to quiet down so he could speak.
Is this a preview of how the Occupy movement is going to come into conflict with volunteers for Obama’s re-election campaign throughout 2012?
1:07 PM Cedar Rapids occupiers refuse to take down tents after city orders them to clear lot they have been occupying
1:02 PM British Columbia government seeks an injunction against Occupy Vancouver. Premier says, “I think people are fed up with all this nonsense.”
10:54 AM Report on CUNY students’ protest against tuition hikes that resulted in police forcefully arresting students and pushing and shoving others who were trying to demonstrate.
10:47 AM City of Philadelphia offers Occupy Philly a permit for a new site with one caveat: no tents allowed at new site. Occupation has been facing the prospect of eviction.
10:40 AM Occupy Chapel Hill protested police brutality with candlelight vigil. City was the site of a terrifying police raid on a vacant building that resulted in people who were occupying being arrested for breaking and entering.



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At least there are some folks with permitted tents in Santa Rosa. The homeless got priority among occupiers for the permits, so the tents that remain will be put to good use.
In other news…
Rosie Gray, The Village Voice: Photos: Inside the Sanitation Building Where Occupy Wall Street’s Stuff Is Being Held
Veteran Occupier to Depart from Columbia to Charleston
Two encampments now: State House – Columbia; Marion Square – Charleston
John’s posterous: Athens Polytechnic comes to UC Davis
CUNY Police Riot (1 of 5)
Occupy Hartford: CL&P Protest Overview
YouTube at 11
Tim Craig, Washington Post: AFL-CIO urges unions to treat Occupy DC as picket line
Is it 10 already?
#OccupyColumbia Retakes the State House, Defeats 6pm Curfew
DRBC Anti Fracking Rally Part 2 – Occupy Wall Street Trenton NJ
Money: A Chart of All of It
Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times: Occupy L.A. receives offer to decamp
Re: mic-checking Obama
Here’s the YouTube:
Mic Check Obama
I would say the President handled it with a good deal more grace than, for example, “who gave you the right” Newt Gingrich. He paused, listened to what they had to say, and accepted that they had a point. He did not scorn the protesters or what they had to say.
However, it doesn’t always work. You are among supporters at a rally, and you can expect to be drowned out very quickly to where your signal to noise ratio prevents your message from having any effect.
Lindsay Watts, KRDO:
UPDATE: Occupy Protester Arrested, Permit Denied
The “let me speak first…” was a little condescending.
The point of mic-checking is, after all, to highlight the fact that politicians now are so consumed in messaging to manipulate voters that they never listen to the authentic concerns of voters. It is filtered through polls, consultants, focus groups, campaign strategists, and aides. Each one of them with their own personal agendas.
And more importantly, they never respond to voters as individuals, as having unique insights.
And voters are fed up with being ignored. Thus, mic-checks are an effective tactic to speaking what’s on other peoples’ minds.
Meanwhile, as Europe continues to slowly sink beneath the waves:
“EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html
Almost makes declaring pizza a vegetable seem reasonable…?
Screen capture
Amazingly powerful post from Cairo by a high school teacher who seems to be American. Here are a couple of excerpts.
I agree with what you’ve said. Also, pushing the envelope is usually a good move. Our 84-year old hero mentioned this the other day.
I think we will see a good deal of this going on during the campaign season.
I had an opportunity to mic check a sitting Senator and a former Governor who would like to be President over the weekend, the topic being deleting emails, and decided not to given the relative numbers that we had vs. the number of supporters. Also there was no live video coverage so it would have fallen on the wrong ears.
Just in. Report that pregnant woman sprayed and kicked in Seattle OWS miscarried her child.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/22/pregnant-seattle-protester-miscarries-after-being-kicked-pepper-sprayed/
EXTREMELY POWERFUL! Must read:
http://www.truth-out.org/open-letter-winter-patriot/1321981592
The point is the YouTube of the politician’s reaction. Without the numbers and ability to do that either directly or through capture from the television, the tactic is not very effective. And the numbers are necessary to drown out any attempts of the supporters to suppress the mic-check and help the politician get back on message.
The look on Michele Bachmann’s face when Occupy Charleston (SC) mic-checked her is the same look Nicolas Ceaucescu had when he grasped that what the huge crowd in front of him was saying was “Down with Ceaucescu.” His (and her) carefully crafted reality of unquestionable popularity had been crashed.
Good for You! Proud of you for being a Patriot!
That is exactly what you did not see in the Vietnam Era. Too many phony wars and repeated abusive deployments are likely going to be coming home to roost. It will separate the patriots from the “true believers” unable to see what has been done.
With all those Union Halls all over New York, I don’t understand why one closet to Wall Skreech hasn’t been offered to OWS for protection from the cold. Absolute stupidty on their part!
Now there’s a court case waiting to happen. More from the Occupy Reno web site.
Yep, and really touching that he titled it, “Winter Patriot”.
Just blew me away, coming from another Military man of many years. When I first saw it I thought he was going to give advice on cold weather camping. Brought tears to my eyes.
David Edwards, Raw Story: Obama gets ‘mic checked’ in New Hampshire
Hooray! Snoopy dance and more.
I watched the video clip, but it just went to where he said okay, but I’ll speak first. Did he respond to the police brutality?
It’s a very moving piece. It was also a struggle for me to wade through the language to get to the content. I’d love to see it written or summarized or paraphrased into easier English so that some of our military who aren’t as educated could have an easier time reading and understanding it.
New York Press Club: Coalition formed to Monitor NYPD/PRESS Relations
In case it times out:
Nope, he pivoted to the “you’re the folks I’ve been working for” rhetoric. Never broke out of the bubble.
WHOOP!Good for them. I hope it makes the recipients knees shake.
Among the soon-to-be unemployed
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone: UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top
I hope he keeps getting interrupted. Democrats hope to co-opt the parts OWS they want through their proxies (pundits and organizations) and pretend they’re down with it and are on our side in fighting the corrupt, etc., which is bullshit. It’s hard for them to pull that off when the public sees/hears about the people Democrats and President (via their proxies) supposedly are in line with are protesting them.
Also illustrates there is a solid group of devoted team fanatics who will turn against anyone who makes their team, and especially team leader, look bad.
“What goes around, comes around.”
I would hate to have Matt or Glenn mad at me. They both write like a knife.
Waking up can be hard to do, and eating humble pie even harder.
This simultaneously brought tears to my eyes and a knot in my stomach.
Chuck Collins, TED talk: Taxing the Wealthy
“The people on the street have come together. The political leadership has two choices: they can either come together and join the masses, or they can stand divided as they are and lose any credibility they have,”
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1122/Tahrir-Square-Expanding-protests-force-concessions-from-Egypt-s-military
American Migration Map
Fascinating when you look at which counties are deep red counties and which are deep blue counties. Not moving anywhere affects one’s perspective (unless you are among the 1%).
Click on your own county. Or where that Limbaugh-watching uncle lives.
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress: Former AIG CEO Sues Claiming Taxpayers Need To Pony Up $25 Billion More
Dan Elliott, AP: Lawsuit: Denver police trying to suppress Occupy
The traffic tickets are the tell.
Barack Obama holds a note given to him by @OccupyNH supporters.
Who runs them? My guess contractors to DHS and Secret Service public affairs.
Media vans at #UCDavis
#OccupyUCDavis just moments ago
Cathy N. Davidson, The Chronicle of Higher Education commentary: A Plea to College Presidents: Exercise Your Moral Leadership
It is the content of the speech that is at issue, isn’t it?
If this is a taste of Chrismas yet to come the President’s re-election is in deep PR trouble. The people mic-checking him are the same ones who formed his huge crowds in 2010. He will still have fervent supporters, and can count on those who would rather see him in office than Newt Gingrich, but he is going to be doing the walk of shame wherever he goes on the stump. And he earned that walk.
Lumps of coal (or uranium from Excelon) in O’s Xmas stocking.
Occupy Raleigh general assembly
Occupy Colorado Springs – Nov. 22, 2011 – Still occupying!
Greenberg-Traurig. Many Bush connections. Election Fraud 2000 by DrDeBug (accessed Nov. 22, 2011).
Exelon Corp: People (Investing Section of Bloomberg Business Week, accessed Nov. 22, 2011).
From “Exelon VP Thanks Speculators for Uranium Price Rise” (EzineArticles.com, By James Finch, May 25, 2007; my bold):
M & A activities, Verizon, Terremark: “Greenberg Traurig Co-Managing Shareholder Jaret Davis Named to The M&A Advisor`s `40 Under 40`” (Reuters.Com, Aug. 3, 2011).
I’ll have to bookmark your comment until after TG, Need some clear time to think about W vs. O connections. Hypothesis at the moment is that they are both tools of really evil people, but different factions.
Kevin …thanks to you and Firedoglake for this incredible coverage.
It’s much appreciated out here by those who aren’t active posters…but, lurkers who follow it all.
This is but a “Turkey Lull” and things are going to pick up..and hope you get a little break because we are going to need you going forward. Unless you are a Vegan…take a “road break” for a little Turkey Fixings wherever you can find it…and lot’s of love and hugs to you too!
UC Davis – Katehi Town Hall UStream (aggietv)
LS UC Davis (aggietv)
Currently not broadcasting. The ground rules of the Town Hall prohibit independent livestreaming.
Cute, isn’t it?
It seems that commercial TV 10 is the only source televising Katehi’s Town Hall.
CBS Sacramento isn’t streaming right now– “Watch Live: UC Davis town hall meeting regarding pepper spray incident“
Joined by Raymond McDaniel Jr. of Moody’s Corp, Katehi sits on the Board of John Wiley & Sons.
Thomas Russo of American International Group, Inc. joins Katehi in sitting on the Board of Institute Of International Education, Inc.
Oh, Man!
She’s on the money train too. No wonder the situation was handled with suppression.
The Town Hall Meeting with Chancellor Katehi live stream appears to have just ended.
Linda Katehi (DavisWiki.Org, accessed Nov. 22, 2011)
Some of Katehi’s research while with the University of Michigan: “Polarization Reconfigurable Patch Antenna Using Microelectromechanical Systems
(MEMS) Actuators” | Rainee N. Simons, Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Donghoon Chun and Linda P.B. Katehi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | Apr. 2002
Aggie TV went back on and has been streaming a town hall that has gone pretty much as expected.
And students asked that Aggie TV be able to continue streaming the town hall.
Tarheel,
I have to commend you for being able to stay glued today and continue with the updates. I am so sorry that I could not continue with you this afternoon. I was beside myself after reading the letter from Winter Patriot and getting the response from the President to OWS. One request. ONE! One very small request to stop the police brutality so they could exercise their 1st Ammendment rights.
This President could not respond. He could not speak to the people he supposedly works for. I had some horrible feelings and words for the man today. Any spirit of hope that he might hear, see, or speak to bulk of America left today. You, sir, are much stronger than I am. I am thankful that you have the constitution as Kevin does to keep on keeping on!
Yeah, almost half a million a year. She wants for nothing and has forgotten from whence she came.
She must be loads of fun at parties. s/
Bet she loves her a Toga party with grape leaf horsderves!
Can’t figure out why anyone would think that an engineer would make a good college chancellor. And obviously she didn’t.
Me either! You would think they would much rather have a person that has studied both Bus. Administration and Higher Education Fundamentals.
I’m glad to see that and I hope they have some strong Constitutional Lawyers to back them up. Do we still have Judges in the Country that actually rule by law and Constitutional rights?
This is a shallow introduction to MEMS re industrial applications (the actual applications around the marketing “buzz” regarding “nanotechnology”):
“Microelectromechanical Systems Opportunities: A Department of Defense Dual-Use Technology Industrial Assessment” (Department Of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06531, Turkey, ~1995)
From “Microelectromechanical systems“:
“EMS market for defense and aerospace to hit $265 million by 2009” (Military and Aerospace Electronics, Apr. 1, 2006)
What chumps Obama’s fans are; ‘Yes We Can’ what? Enable Obama to murder more children through his drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen? Support the democrats as they work to axe social security and medicare?
Would that be connected to the RFID chip thingies that are on all our product boxes and containers?
From the link, which also points out the bulk of operations in Germany:
Looks like they help the Drones with guidance too.
MzChief,
I am not at home now. However, I’ve already told you how much I appreciate your many hours here as well. Very dedicated and wishing to do good for all humanity, plus more wonderful things that I have not the words for at the moment. I am thankful for you as well.
They can be.
From “RFID Innovations Deepen Market Penetration” (Microwaves and RF, by Nancy Friedrich, ED Online ID #14637, January 2007; my bold):
Sheesh!
A knee replacement might mean you will be tracked and listened to just like your Cell Phone!
Check out the cell phone applications:
Gentag’s contacts on K St., NW, Washington, DC and The Netherlands
Yep. See there. Watching and listening to everything.
“Home of the Free”, My Butt!
You are welcome.
Something to think about is how scientists become technocratic functionaries. Fear, greed and compartmentalization can be part of the process by which that happens.
From the UC-Davis Town Hall, the money quote of the night:
You say that you need to better understand what students think about these issues. I’ve been here three years, and I have to say this is the first time I’ve seen you five. (meaning three assistant chancellors, the interim police chief, and the chancellor)
Since you mentioned it….
I’ve been thinking about how Corporations, specifically the Pharma and Med companies slither their way into colleges and their research buildings. Especially, the Pharma side where they co-opt research cures and turn them into more ways to medicate instead of irradicate.
Surely they were emabarrased. Lots of money for a position that is out of sight.
One commenter talked about the privatization of the public university. He said that UC Davis receives only 8% of its funds as public funds. As a land grant university with an Ag School, Engineering School, and a Medical School (remember the Bakke decision originated at UC-Davis), think of the opportunities for slitherin.
Why is no one talking about this…?
Today… Tony Rezko was sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme. He was convicted of mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and abetting bribery.
Rezko was a fundraiser for Barack Obama during Obama’s Senate and state senate campaigns.
The prosecutor said… “It’s not a one-time mistake”. “It was a plan. Illinois was for sale”.
Lauren Vargas, WKRG: UPDATE: Occupy Mobile Protesters Shifting Focus
I’m sure D-Day will have a fact filled post on it.
#LOL. Looks like there’s a chip for that:
You know, Mel Brooks was really on it in the 1960s: Max, 99 and the Sacred Cows
I’m out for the night. Weather reports more Tornado prone squalls on the way.
Sheesh! LOL, you are funny and I thought, is there an app for that was cute.
Night all.
Niters, Peasant Party and TarheelDem.
from the AP from Davis
New Occupy Camp at Scene of Pepper Spraying
Students have again put up tents near the site where University of California, Davis police used pepper spray on seated protesters in a conflict that has sparked outrage and calls for the school chancellor’s resignation. http://www.newslook.com/videos/374130-new-occupy-camp-at-scene-of-pepper-spraying?autoplay=true
The Rezko story has the possibility of being the biggest story since Watergate.
Rezko knows EVERYTHING about Obama… and EVERYTHING about corruption in Chicago, the state of Illinois, and corruption on the national level.
Thank you.
Happy Thanksgiving — I will be enjoying Thanksgiving and taking a break.
Occupy Dartmouth photo set
Recap of the Meeting to Discuss the Offer From the City 2
Occupy LA discusses the City of Los Angeles’s location swap offer after city makes clear that offer was ruse to get them away from City Hall.
Occupy Santa Ana (CA) mic-checks Wal-Mart
There is a diary/cross-post at MyFDL that needs to not be read. Everyone who clicks on it as well as posts is putting $$ in the sicko’s pocket. Please do not read the “age baiting” post that mentions Occupy and the “bags” in the headline.
Please scroll past if over there.
Laurie Penny, New Statesman: Occupy the media
John R. Hall, Possible Futures: The Birth of Occupy UC Davis