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| Police arrest Occupy Denver protesters |
| 2011-12-21 |
| [Iran Press TV] US police have tossed in the calaboose nine Occupy protesters in Denver, the capital city of the central state of Colorado, and dismantled their camp, which was put on fire during the violence. Police tossed in the calaboose nine protesters on Tuesday during the confrontation with anti-corporatism demonstrators, said Denver Police front man Lieutenant Matthew Murray. It was not immediately known who set ablaze the camp, set up by protesters in Civic Center Park outside the Capitol building in downtown Denver. Once police pushed protesters back, firefighters extinguished the fire and "public works crews" dismantled the camp, he said. Over the past few weeks, police have broken up Occupy encampments in cities and towns across the US, harshly attacking and arresting dozens of protesters. The anti-Wall Street protest in Denver was one of the last encampments in a major US city as part of a countrywide Occupy movement. The protest movement, which gave voice to outcries and grievances of people against poverty, unemployment, war, and corporatism, first began in Spain before gaining prominence in the US and then moving to other countries |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Without any counduit to express their frustrations, they'll be back. Silencing them does not address the very real hardships people are experiencing. It only buys some time for politicians to get past this next election cycle, they hope. I hope you'll forgive my cynical laughter. A "conduit to express their frustrations" complete with an amorphous set of complaints and antics that eventually could not be hidden by the regular media is a long-running temper tantrum, not a movement. They're getting evicted and arrested because they've outlived their political usefulness and lost their cultural novelty. Sucks, but that's show business. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-12-21 17:41 |
| #2 Without any counduit to express their frustrations, they'll be back. Silencing them does not address the very real hardships people are experiencing. It only buys some time for politicians to get past this next election cycle, they hope. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2011-12-21 12:29 |
| #1 then moving to other countries Of course, they don't have to worry about it moving to Iran, because it'd never happen in an islamic paradise. If it ain't reported, it didn't happen, right? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-12-21 06:23 |