January 5, 2012

San Diego activists plan bus trip to DC to lobby Congress

Occupy San Diego activists are going to occupy a Greyhound Bus all the way to Washington D.C. to join with other activists from across the country for a series of actions in front of the Capitol building coordinated to coincide with the opening day of the 2012 congressional session.

There are “at least a dozen” Occupy San Diego protesters making the trip by bus, possibly as many as two carloads that will follow the Greyhound and another six who are flying to the nation’s capital for the direct actions in DC on January 17, said Mike Garcia, a mortgage broker-turned-substance…

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January 4, 2012

San Diego police use encroachment ordinance to disrupt Occupy

Within 15 minutes of arriving at the plaza outside of City Hall here, where Occupy San Diego continues to congregate during the daytime and hold their daily general assembly meetings at night, I saw firsthand what the local activists have been dealing with.

“Code Blue,” yelled out a woman named Lynn Leseth.

Code Blue, she explained to me later, was the signal to alert activists that the police are on their way. And, sure enough, there they were, two San Diego police officers making their way over to the small group of activists milling about near a fountain and sitting…

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