A City Paper article claims

Donal — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:24:05 +0000

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A City Paper article claims that divisions were forming in the Occupy group.

Police Dismantle Occupy Baltimore Encampment

Issues of safety had challenged the encampment from its early days. As the makeup of the people on-site evolved and changed, many of the young activists who started the movement came to the site less and less, preferring to discuss the movement’s plans and philosophies off site or over the several internet message boards that group established.

Beginning a few weeks ago, “emergency food requests” began to regularly appear on Occupy’s Google message board. Attendance dwindled at the iconic “general assemblies,” which were supposed to be held each evening on the square so that the group could decide what it wanted to do through consensus. On Dec. 9 there was no general assembly.

Tom Keifaber, former owner of the Senator Theater and losing candidate for City Council president, began criticizing Occupy members on the local group’s internet message board, prompting the creation of a “moderated” Google Group board to keep Keifaber out. (Anyone can join, but “trolls”—those who engage in ad hominem attacks, off-topic rants, and general obtuseness—can be banned.)

Occupy Moves to the Home

Donal — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:47:00 +0000

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Occupy Moves to the Home Front

Occupy Wall Street found a new home this week—not a new park, or a plaza, or a square, but a house. Just weeks after the eviction from its encampment in the financial district, hundreds of occupiers joined local community members in a foreclosure tour of the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn through the rain, which concluded with a celebratory block party as a family reclaimed a foreclosed home owned by Bank of America.

As the march passed, I heard a local woman saying, “This was a long time coming.”

The action was one of many anti-foreclosure actions taking place in communities across the United States yesterday; the Guardian reported actions in at least 25 cities under the banner of a new Occupy campaign, Occupy Our Homes.

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Occupy Moves to the Home