Saturday, November 26, 2011

OccupyLA gets eviction notice from mayor


AP via Google News:
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave a lengthy tribute to Occupy LA protesters on Friday before telling them they must leave their encampment on the lawn of City Hall by 12:01 a.m. Monday, citing public health and safety concerns.
Villaraigosa, who has expressed sympathy for the protest’s aims from its beginning seven weeks ago, announced the ouster at an afternoon news conference with police Chief Charlie Beck. He said the movement that has spread in two months from New York to numerous other U.S. cities has “awakened the country’s conscience” — but also trampled grass at City Hall that must be restored....
Read the rest at Google News

UPDATE: Philadelphia mayor gives ‘Occupy Philly’ eviction notice
by Andrew Jones (Raw Story)

Anyone see a pattern here?

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