New information kiosk to celebrate three-month anniversary tomorrow
Staff Report
Humboldt Sentinel
Eureka’s version of Occupy Wall Street has been accused of many things — but timidity isn’t on the list.
Huge fences, mass arrests and repeated take-downs of their tents, signs and prior information booths at the Humboldt County Courthouse over the last six weeks has yet to completely clear away their ranks from the front steps.
To celebrate the three-month mark of Occupy Wall Street’s formation in New York City, Occupy Eureka is planning yet another reconstruction of its information kiosk tomorrow, and is challenging local law enforcement to one more showdown before the year runs out.
“We demand the Eureka police and Humboldt Sheriff’s [deputies] produce legal documentation to justify their relentless attacks on protesters’ civil liberties and human rights,” Occupy Eureka spokesperson Jack Nounnan stated in a release.
Occupy Eureka claims, somewhat conversely, that they will “defy” the Eureka Municipal Code section outlawing non-permitted camping, and that the municipal codes are misinterpreted when applied to prohibit the construction of all shelters against the elements — even if the only thing being sheltered is a table with literature on it.
“This even is part of a movement-wide call to ‘re-occupy’ in the wake of coordinated attacks and subsequent evictions of occupations across the nation and around the world,” Nounnan stated.
The unveiling of the new kiosk will take place at Noon on Saturday, Dec. 17 — which is also the one-year anniversary of the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, whose death sparked the start of the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings in Middle East nations such as Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain.
That will show that evil Wall Street…..what a bunch of fools.
“Somewhat conversely”? Huh?
More Occupy Eureka protesters have been arrested than the nation’s executives responsible for the international economic meltdown and subsequent bailouts.
Conversely, that is, due to their own claims — either they’re breaking the law (and practicing civil disobedience) or they are correct in their assertions that they aren’t breaking the law. It can’t be both.
Civil disobedience is not always illegal. U.S. residents have a Constitutional right to protest.