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We Are Women March - Texas
This is the link for the Texas Facebook Group.
Feel free to repost with the links to your local group or organizers. Let’s not take this one sitting down.
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10 Arrested at Occupy Houston
HPD ARRESTS 10 OCCUPY HOUSTON PARTICIPANTS
Houston, TX, November 8, 2011 – At approximately 11:00 PM, HPD arrested 10 Occupy Houston participants as a result of a dispute over a tarp being used to protect equipment belonging to Occupy Houston from inclement weather.
Police confronted one of the Occupy Houston participants about the placement of a tarp in Tranquility Park and requested its removal. The participant refused to remove the tarp on the grounds that it was necessary to protect equipment vital to the participants’ well-being. The participant discussed the matter with officers over a period of approximately 20 minutes, during which time HPD presence at the occupation site escalated dramatically, reaching a total of 27 officers and 19 police
cruisers.After failing to reach a resolution, police insisted that an arrest would be made if the tarp were not removed. The aforementioned participant remained steadfast in his position and 5 additional Occupy Houston participants indicated their willingness to be arrested on these terms as well. HPD then proceeded to arrest the participants and confiscate the tarp and other equipment belonging to the occupiers.
Four additional Occupy Houston participants were detained during the course of the arrests. Three individuals who were filming the event were detained for jaywalking after attempting to cross Walker St. at Bagby, where a police cruiser was obstructing the crosswalk. Another participant was arrested while requesting the name and badge number of one of the arresting officers. Three of the detained persons were released after a period of time, while the remaining 7 participants were booked into the municipal jail facility located on Lubbock. Video of the arrests may be viewed at Occupy Houston’s YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/OccupyHouston
Occupy Houston will hold an informal press conference at Tranquility Park on the morning of November 9th at 10:00 AM to address questions concerning the arrests and their significance. There are plans for a demonstration afterwards in front of the municipal courthouse at 1400 Lubbock to show solidarity with those arrested and to protest the city’s unwillingness to allow Occupy Houston to adequately protect the food, medical supplies and electronic equipment that maintain the safety and health of the protesters while they conduct their constitutional right to peaceably assemble.
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10 people were arrested at Occupy Houston last one. One is an Iraq Veteran. These are his words about being arrested.
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![stfuconservatives:
flapjackstate:
[image: protest sign that says “warning: do not confuse the complexity of this movement with chaos”].
kinsey-val-kyrie:
livelaughawesome:
Found here.
BOOM.
ROASTED.
True democracy has as many aims as it does participants.
I was at dinner this weekend with some new acquaintances, and one of them said, “The Occupy protesters just don’t have a clear message! What are they angry about?” I was like “EXCUSE ME. They have SO much to be angry about — Bush tax cuts, unemployment, abortion restriction, corporate greed, underemployment, student loans — that’s it’s hard to boil it all down to one pithy message. That doesn’t mean they don’t have any right to be angry.”
-Jess
Love this.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lty4icdbJq1qcvc7qo1_500.jpg)
[image: protest sign that says “warning: do not confuse the complexity of this movement with chaos”].
Found here.
BOOM.
ROASTED.
True democracy has as many aims as it does participants.
I was at dinner this weekend with some new acquaintances, and one of them said, “The Occupy protesters just don’t have a clear message! What are they angry about?” I was like “EXCUSE ME. They have SO much to be angry about — Bush tax cuts, unemployment, abortion restriction, corporate greed, underemployment, student loans — that’s it’s hard to boil it all down to one pithy message. That doesn’t mean they don’t have any right to be angry.”
-Jess
Love this.
(via stfuconservatives)
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Occupy Houston’s Halloween day flash mob at Bank of America.
Why BofA? They got a $1.9 bill federal tax refund, despite making $4.4 billion in profits and receiving a bailout, and have announced plans to lay of 36,000 employees.
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A video about Occupy Houston. It’s a good example of some the extreme things the media has said, and some thoughts about the Occupy movement from the people.
P.S. I’m in it.
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#OccupyHouston Experiments with Self-Sustainability
The goal is to be completely self-sustainable,” said Shaun Crump, head of Occupy Houston’s renewable energy efforts. Crump says the protester’s carbon footprint is equivalent to less than a small business. “We are trying to show people what can be done. The government and corporations say they can’t do that for us right now — but we can do it for ourselves.”
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I tried to write a post about my experience at Occupy Houston. Twice. And tumblr ate it, which was really unfortunate because OH was a bright spot in my very very bad day.
So I’ll just leave this sign here.
