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Occupy Tucson curfew citations continue as movement spreads to 3 parks

by on Nov. 02, 2011, under Arizona, Capitalism, City Council, corporatists, downtown, economy, Free Speech, organizing, Politics, Trickle Down Economics, Tucson

Occupy Tucson at Armory Park, Oct. 28, 2011 (Image Credit: Pamela Powers)

Occupy Tucson began on Oct. 15 at Armory Park– after a shift from Pancho Villa Park to accommodate Tucson Meet Yourself. Now the demonstration is taking place at 3 locations downtown– Armory Park, Pancho Villa, and the main library.

Tucson Police continue to give campers curfew citations nightly at all three locations– despite the restraining order issued by a federal judge in Tennessee who has prevented the state of Tennessee from issuing curfew citations against Occupy Nashville protesters on grounds that the tickets violated their first amendment rights to freedom of speech.

For more on the arrests and the new Occupy locations, click here.

For a collection of Occupy Tucson videos, click here.

For moving Occupy Tucson testimony from the 2 City Council meetings were no action was taken, check out these links. Particularly moving is the homeless man at the beginning of part 2 of the October 25 meeting.

October 18, 2011 Tucson Mayor and Council Meeting

October 25, 2011 Tucson Mayor and Council Meeting

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  • George W

    Trying to suppress these demonstrations is proof they are effectively upsetting the status quo folks, the apple cart of the contented 1%! Many are to young to remember the 1960′s era grass roots movments of anti-war, anti-segregation, anti-jim crow civil rights era demonstratons, they were not neat, highly organized, had no real single leaders, definitely not like the GOP financed and created tea partier’s who had the billionaires money to rent them public spaces at $10,000 a day, nor provide them with buses to bus them around the country, or them cute out of season holloween colonial outfits they all liked to sport! No real grass roots movements are not neat, nor are they easily suppressed, they in fact react to attempts of suppression with a push back, growth, the fox and friends tea partier’s are going bonkers as their fake movement fizzles a real one is growing and they just cannot stand it!:-)

  • George W

    Is it not funny Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck & Orielly multi-millionaires claim to be defenders of the common man/woman, defenders of the constitution but are so far removed from both as to be almost comical if one looked at it, imagine these fellows riding in their limo’s, driven by a 99% working man/woman, riding in their personal jets/yacht’s, residing in their multi-million dollar mansions being in touch with the common working class american? No I cannot imagine them being anything but what they are the 1% who are afraid, terrified of the status quo changing!

    • JUST LIKE GREECE

      What, like all 20 got tickets this time?
      They must not have gotten the orders- But, they are supposed to start mindless vandalism and  rioting as of last night.

      • tunkashila

        So, when did you get your marching orders to spew mindless drivel, troll?

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Pamela Powers Hannley writes the Tucson Progressive blog on the TucsonCitizen.com and contributes articles to the Huffington Post and Salon.com. She has had more than 30 years of experience in written, visual, and electronic communication—including freelance writing, photography, graphic design, and consulting. In addition to blogging for the Citizen, she is the Managing Editor of an international medical research journal.

Hannley has authored medical research articles, print magazine and newspaper stories, and numerous cancer prevention and self-help publications.

She has been a blogger since 2006, joined the ranks of Tucson Citizen bloggers in October 2010, and started contributing to the Huffington Post in 2011 and to Salon.com in 2012.

Hannley holds a masters’ degree in public health from The University of Arizona and a bachelors’ degree in journalism from The Ohio State University. She is a native of Amherst, Ohio but has lived in Tucson since 1981.