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Occupy DC Clashes with Police Over Structure, 31 Arrested
campusprogress.org
A day-long standoff between Occupy DC protesters and Washington, DC Park Police began with something uniquely non-DC: a barn-raising.
Late Saturday night, protesters at the encampment erected a wooden structure intended to provide wintertime shelter for members of the camp, house general assemblies, and make a political statement about homelessness.
The structure was designed and donated by a father-son architect team and cost around $1,400, according to a reporter on Occupy DC’s live video stream. Made of six pieces, it was designed to be both sustainable (with a heating system made of water bottles in the roof) and temporary (able to be assembled and disassembled in about an hour).
Not temporary enough, though, for DC’s Park Police, who ordered protesters to take the structure down early Sunday morning. In response, a number of protesters stood their ground inside and on the roof of the structure in the face of arrest threats. Read more…
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