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In Vancouver By Anakana

artappraiser — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:45:11 +0000

In reply to Portland, Ore., Mayor Orders 'Occupiers' Out

By Anakana Schofield London Review of Books blogs, 8 November 2011

On Saturday, a 23-year-old woman called Ashlie Gough died from a suspected overdose at the Occupy Vancouver protest site. Before the weekend, the city’s mayor, Gregor Robertson, had been treading carefully around the protest, stressing the need to avoid violent confrontation; his main opponent in the election due on 19 November, Suzanne Anton of the right-wing NPA party, had been demanding its closure. Both showed up for photo opportunities at the site on Sunday.

After the news of Gough’s death broke, Robertson declared the tent city a ‘health and safety hazard’.....

Though the mayor sounds

artappraiser — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:25:55 +0000

In reply to Portland, Ore., Mayor Orders 'Occupiers' Out

Though the mayor sounds sympathetic to the cause, he says increasing associated crime and drug overdoses makes it impossible for him to allow the occupation to continue.

But it turns out Karl Rove's organization in Massachusetts is using related themes in a culture war against Elizabeth Warren as an OWS supporter with attack ads with menacing music and unflattering images from the protest in the background, a narrator warns that OWS is made up of “extreme left protesters” who “attack police, do drugs and trash public parks."

The security problems of Occupy groups appear to be growing as an issue.