State is changing its hands-off approach to Occupy Tacoma camp

[rsmith6621]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/02/01/2008478/tacoma-changing-its-hands-off.html

Occupy Tacoma’s welcome is wearing thin.

On Tuesday, two representatives of the state Department of Transportation visited the Pacific Avenue encampment and notified residents of complaints from nearby business owners and residents.

Then on Wednesday, two workers from a fencing company pulled up in a flatbed truck and started measuring the perimeter of the encampment for a chain-link fence. They told residents they were working for the state.

“It’s pretty clear they want us to leave, which is really unfair,” Ryan Way, a 21-year-old Occupy activist from Tacoma, said Wednesday. “We are not causing trouble. We’re keeping the conversation alive.”

Occupy Tacoma, which has had about three dozen tents pitched at tiny Don Pugnetti Park at Pacific Avenue and South 21st Street since last October, is among the last Occupy encampments still active. Widespread and occasionally violent eviction efforts have taken place in cities across the country in the past month, including Seattle and Olympia.

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The DOT will be at Occupy Tacoma Sunday night GA to probably serve notice.

[ellisonz]

1. Not many left...

Honolulu got the boot yesterday: http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1002258339

[gopiscrap]

2. Hey call me

253 229 3737-Mike

[sabrina 1]

3. They are so afraid of the American people. But new strategies are now being discussed and

hopefully the movement will now evolve. They never expected to last past December, if that far when this all started. They have far exceeded even their own best hopes and now the 'idea' has been firmly implanted in the country's consciousness.

At least in one city the group has been provided with an empty building which they are fixing up and hope to use as a kind of community center as well as a place to do their own business. This can happen elsewhere although it won't stop the harassment from employees of the 1%.