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Occupy Wall St dot Org ..

For the first time since our movement against economic inequality and political corruption began, Occupy Wall Street is literally occupying Wall Street. As of 3am eastern time [April 10th], over 40 Occupiers are sleeping on Wall Street near the corner of Broad across from the New York Stock Exchange .. On April 6, [at Union Square] NYPD gathered once again for the nightly ¨eviction theater¨ only to find Occupiers had moved to the sidewalks and erected a sign declaring their legal right to do so. When police moved in arrest them, Occupiers on livestream read the law permitting sleeping on sidewalks as political protest. In Metropolitan v. Safir, the U.S. District Court covering New York City ruled that ¨ the First Amendment of the United States Constitution does not allow the City to prevent an orderly political protest from using public sleeping as a means of symbolic expression.” The police backed down. The tactic quickly became a model for other Occupations

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