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Arvind Dilawar at OWS Journal ..

A bill outlawing many forms of protest employed by the Occupy Wall Street movement has received overwhelming bipartisan support in the House, passed unanimously in the Senate and is now awaiting President Obama’s signature to become law. The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, also known as H.R. 347 and S.1794, cordons off “restricted buildings and grounds” and punishes anyone who unlawfully enters or occupies, disrupts government business within, or impedes access to and from these areas with up to one year imprisonment, a fine or both. In other words, the bill criminalizes sit-ins, “mic checks,” human chains and a number of other forms of non-violent civil disobedience that have been the primary modes of protest for Occupy

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