Occupy LA: Hundreds of protesters take over downtown intersection

[ellisonz]

Photo: Protesters take over the intersection of 7th and Figueroa streets. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times

Hundreds of protesters take over downtown intersection
October 6, 2011 | 1:29 pm

Police said Thursday that the number of protesters that had been picketing banks downtown has swelled to about 500 and that a march had taken over the intersection of 7th and Figueroa streets. Officers in riot gear were dispatched to the scene and arrests may be imminent if the protesters did not disperse, police said.

The march was sponsored by the ReFund California campaign with support from Occupy Los Angeles protesters who have been camping outside City Hall since Saturday.

Protesters initially indicated to police that they would engage in acts of civil disobedience, causing authorities to redeploy officers from around the city to the area.

On Tuesday afternoon, several dozen protesters with signs and a bullhorn picketed outside the Westwood home of a One West Bank executive. About 50 demonstrators showed up outside the home and stayed about 30 minutes as Los Angeles Police Department officers looked on.

-- Andrew Blankstein and Abby Sewell

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/bank-protesters-take-over-intersection.html

[Taverner]

1. Our resident trolls are busy unreccing this

Oh, but I can't call them trolls! Even if they only have 10 posts to their names!

[fascisthunter]

4. yes, pathetic little worms boring through an apple

[Zorra]

2. knr

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. K&R

[flamingdem]

5. Good to see LA is not always "laid back"

This is the anti-mellow

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Photo of a very small slice of the LA "World Can't Wait" protest a few years ago:

[flamingdem]

11. I imagine the unions in LA are going to add to the numbers

though I haven't read this yet

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. I'm on #OccupyLosAngeles on Facebook and nothing major (yet!!!)

Will post when it does :hi:

[flamingdem]

13. Great keep us updated

so I motivate and even get myself over there ... very interested in seeing the unions take and will be surprised if they don't participate, but who knows - maybe it's not quite like the NY situation.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. The way to do it effectively is

Occupy an intersection, wait till the cops come, eventually get up and leave and march a couple blocks to another intersection, rinse, repeat.

[customerserviceguy]

7. Big mistake

If you keep this between the protesters and the cops, or better yet, between the protesters and the Wall Streeter country-club types, you win.

If you piss off and intimidate ordinary Americans just going about their business, then you risk alienation. I saw it happen with the antiwar protests in 1968, even with George Wallace bleeding off the worst racists, Nixon was the result.

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[Taverner]

9. I got news for you: Not many people work in Downtown LA

Most of the jobs are in the burbs and industrial areas surrounding

[customerserviceguy]

14. Well, I've never been there

but surely there must be some sort of economic activity that goes on there, that attracts people other than banksters.

All I'm saying is that if we want the public on our side, we need to stay sympathetic to them. If we piss them off, they flee to the other side. Saw it happen when Nixon got elected in a year that should have been ours all the way.

[Xicano]

15. "Bank" buildings are downtown..

I would imagine so are some trading firms.

[Taverner]

16. True. But for me Downtown LA is all about Sundays...

Some of the greatest food I've ever had was in Downtown LA on a Sunday :)