#occupyaustin

[commanderxanon]

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JAIL SUPPORT NEEDED NOW At Travis County Jail, 500 W. 10th #Austin Sanctuary UT activist arrested during #SB4 student walkouts.#SB4IsHate

— We Were OccupyAustin (@OccupyAustin) September 1, 2017

[theamericanbear]

Members of Occupy Austin have discovered that their arrests on felony charges after a protest last December are directly linked to equipment provided by a police detective who infiltrated their group. On December 12th, members of Occupy Austin joined protesters from around the region to block a street entrance to the Port of Houston. The action was done in solidarity with Occupy activists who tried to shut down ports on the West Coast in support of the embattled longshoremen. Seven of the protesters in Houston locked their arms together using locks hidden inside PVC pipes, a device known as a lockbox or a "sleeping dragon" or "dragon sleeves." While most of the demonstrators were charged with misdemeanors, those using the lockboxes were charged with felony use of a, quote, "criminal instrument."

Well, evidence in the case now reveals that an undercover detective with the Austin Police Department not only bought the equipment to make the devices, he also designed them, put them together and dropped them off for the group to use. The defendants in the case recently revealed Detective Shannon Dowell was the protester they knew as "Butch," after Austin police at first denied they had infiltrated the group. Now a judge has ordered police to turn over more information. At least one of the protesters, Eric Marquez, remains in jail due to a prior arrest.

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GREG GLADDEN (attorney for the defendant): The wars on terrorism or on drugs or on communists or whatever, the government has always used infiltrators and often have used infiltrators that would provoke the group to do things that will marginalize the group or will incriminate the group or chill the group in their efforts to do what they’re doing. So, to answer your question, it had all the fingerprints of that kind of behavior. And as it turns out, Shannon Dowell was a narcotics undercover officer that has been loaned out to something called "fusion." And it’s kind of like SPECTRE in an Ian Fleming movie or something. It sounds like that. But their goal, their purpose, through federal grants, is to monitor potential domestic terrorism. And I guess it’s a lot easier to solve crimes you create yourself than to actually ferret out actual crimes and actual criminals. And there are certainly some—a lot of people that would like to shut down the Occupy movements. And this was an obvious—it was obvious to me that that’s—would have worked in that way, whether it was in fact the efforts of the police and the government or whether it was just someone foolish enough to cause the same result.

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[theybc]

Excerpts from Chas Moore's speech at the Texas State Capitol. July 4th, 2012.

[sxsw12]

Shitload of Pics from Tonight's Massive March Down Sixth and Tom Morello #OccupySXSW Show

After an unbelievably long week of workshops and shows, titanic blunts and dozens of rap sets, I had reservations about joining Occupy Austin (also known as OATX online) for a Friday night romp across Sixth Street, the heart of both downtown and SXSW. My feet are bloody at this point, and I knew that an Occupy march would only mess them up worse.

It turned out to be my favorite moment of the week though. The dance party-rally was actually small compared to what's in store for the six month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in Austin tomorrow. Still there were hundreds of protesters, and more Occupy energy than I've seen just about anywhere else recently. More on this - and other Occupy SXSW activity - coming soon, but for now.... -Chris Faraone

[bostonphoenix]

Shitload of Pics from Tonight's Massive March Down Sixth and Tom Morello #OccupySXSW Show

After an unbelievably long week of workshops and shows, titanic blunts and dozens of rap sets, I had reservations about joining Occupy Austin (also known as OATX online) for a Friday night romp across Sixth Street, the heart of both downtown and SXSW. My feet are bloody at this point, and I knew that an Occupy march would only mess them up worse.

It turned out to be my favorite moment of the week though. The dance party-rally was actually small compared to what's in store for the six month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in Austin tomorrow. Still there were hundreds of protesters, and more Occupy energy than I've seen just about anywhere else recently. More on this - and other Occupy SXSW activity - coming soon, but for now.... -Chris Faraone

[austinstatesman]

A 19-year-old man faces a state jail felony charge after police say he threw a full soda can at officers late Friday night during the eviction of Occupy Austin from City Hall.

[diditalian-blog]

#F4 of an Occupiers Journal

An Occupiers perspective on to Serve and Protect...

Occupy DC and Austin Evictions

It has become Glaringly obvious today that laws are not longer laws.  The Federal and Local governments are now shams, think they have been for awhile actually...but I am just waking up to this...

In Austin today, I learned the 1% (Gov't its counterparts, etc..) are like children playing games with adults.  Let me explain...

-We make a move (99%, adults) to call out injustice and change the society to be more just.  The Government, 1%, Corporatocracy, whatever you call it (children) change the rules to make sure they Always win.  They use Loopholes to gain more excess we use loopholes in their system to try to cut out their excess and they close ours and arrest us!

- In DC today it was in full glaring spotlight that the 1% runs the Federal Government as was displayed by Darrell Issa and his Committee to Force the Government to Evict the K Street encampment.  Even though a judge said they could not EVICT without a 24hr notice, when the NLG lawyer for Kst showed up he was not allowed to speak with police or observe.  The Government lied and took everything from the protesters.  The Police had told them they would only make arrests and confiscate things in violation of "No Camping" ordinance, turns out is was a ploy to let them in the camp casually where they dismantled everything, without much of a fight.

How can we as Citizens of a so-called "Free Society" with Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Peaceable Assemble and be a so-called Moral Authority to Dictator Regimes around the world, not WAKE UP and see OUR system is broken and a sham!  WE have no RIGHTS in this society and no one can speak up on our citizens rights and condemn the acts of the US, the ultimate dictatorial regime.

I am saddened and very hurt by today's injustices and even sadder with my own community's lack of willingness to see it all!

-EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY-

I stayed with them in DC, I stayed with them in NYC - I marched with both.  I saw the Austinites being very peaceful, in fact they did not even have tents, just sleeping on steps of city hall, guess the Government and the Rich got tired of not sleeping at night because they were realizing the pain and anguish they were causing to so many citizens, so they just removed the source of their nightmares!  Just like they do in so many cities where they have to cross a blighted community to get from their nice expensive community to get to their friends nice and expensive community.

Today I am even more ashamed of Our President - He tries to speak with Moral Authority to tell Syria to stop attacking it's citizens, yet he says nothing and does nothing to defend His own citizens rights to be on the streets fed up with a Broken system too!  Police got very violent at both DC and Austin today, but he did not ask our armed services to step Down!

[owspepperspray]

APD officer Mistric threatens a group on a sidewalk with pepper spray after Occupy Austin got evicted from City Hall on February 3, 2012

Photo by John Anderson

[proclus]

: OccupyAustin was raided last night. Do what you can for them. They are real heroes. occupydc anonymous p2 usdor antiwar cabincr3w