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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

My Night Trying to Save Liberty Plaza: Firsthand Account of NYPD's Eviction of OWS


When your supporters are facing an unknown fate in the park that has become the base for a global movement, separation is tough.
November 15, 2011
walked up to Liberty Plaza at 1:30 Tuesday morning to find out I was too late. The barricades were up; the police were everywhere. We couldn't even get close enough to see inside the park.

People were pissed. They were blindsided -- separated from their friends, their homes, their families. Occupy Wall Street runs on camaraderie, on solidarity. And when your supporters are facing an unknown fate in the park that has become the base for a global movement, separation is tough.

And yet, the demonstrators stood strong as their hard work, all their infrastructure -- the people's library, the kitchen, the tents, media, medical--was destroyed.
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