Protesters held banners as the Los Angeles police officers moved into the camp occupied Los Angeles outside City Hall on November 29, 2011. (Getty Images)
NEW YORK-last night police raids in Philadelphia and Los Angeles which dismantled two of the nation’s largest occupied Wall Street camp leaving only a few big “job” is still going on around the United States But activists already changing tactics and warnings from the winter of discontent, protests and marches each week.
Camps can bloom again in the spring, said organizers, and next summer could bring a big demonstration in the Republic and the Democratic Convention, when the whole world watching. But for now they promote dozens of smaller actions, such as the picketing…you President in New York and staging sit-ins at home marked for seizure.
“We intend to use this for what it was – essentially six months to get our feet under us, to be strong,” said Phil Striegel, a community activist in San Francisco.
On Wednesday, masked sanitation workers hauling away 25 tons of debris from the grass around the Los Angeles City Hall after police raided the camp of protesters in the middle of the night and arrested more than 300 people. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said it would cost about $ 1 million to clean up the venues. In Philadelphia, dozens of police patrolled the plaza outside City Hall after the sweep of the demonstrators and arrested 50.