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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:17 AM
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Josh Harkinson of Mother Jones has made it into the park and is reporting
Edited on Tue Nov-15-11 03:19 AM by Adenoid_Hynkel
http://twitter.com/#!/JoshHarkinson

Another occupier is waving an American flag
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JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
Kid wearing gas mask holding sign: "No law shall abridge the right of the people to peaceably assemble"
3 minutes ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
There are, very roughly, 25 ppl in the food tent resisting cops. So far police leaving them alone.
4 minutes ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
I just made it all the way in. I am next to the food tent. It's a miracle.
5 minutes ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
Cops have a giant orange bulldozer that they've used to scrape everything up
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JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
Photo of my vantage point. Cops left the American flag. Nothing else. twitpic.com/7eexrp
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:20 AM
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1. Cops left the American flag. Nothing else.
Ironic...
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:23 AM
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3. well, they symbolically bulldozed the Constitution.
flag waving patriotism of the police kind is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:33 AM
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6. +1000
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:21 AM
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2. Thanks!
Having a hard time following video feed.
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:25 AM
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4. more
JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
Cops with zip cuffs now massing by food tent
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JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
Occupiers in food tent that I can see are not chained up. Cops just leaving them alone for now.
6 minutes ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
Still big garbage piles around perimeter. Sani guys behin me sweeping and loading dump truck
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JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
Sweaty guy in suit and neon vest ripping off signs: "I've been waiting a long time to do this."
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:31 AM
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5. Phase twio
JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
by KeithOlbermann
Cop on bullhorn now: "If you refuse to leave the park you are subject to arrest."
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:37 AM
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7. He was just pushed out by cop.
Edited on Tue Nov-15-11 03:37 AM by Hissyspit
Riot Police teargassed last occupiers in food tent.
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:40 AM
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JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
He literally started hauling me across the park. My feet were slipping on the ground.
28 seconds ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
I quickly realized he was just trying to escort me out, so I began resisting.
55 seconds ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
At that point he grabbed me by the arm and started hauling me away
1 minute ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
I said I would not,.That he would have to arrest me, but I would go peacefully.
1 minute ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
He said that all the press is in the press pen, and that's where I had to go
2 minutes ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
I told him I wold not. That is is my right to be here and observe what is going on
2 minutes ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
I told him that I am a reporter with a national magazine, He asked me who, I said Mother Jones. That's when he said I had to leave.
3 minutes ago

JoshHarkinson Josh Harkinson
As I was observing, a cop approached me and asked me who I was
3 minutes ago
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:45 AM
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9. NYPD sawing down trees at Zuchotti park right now #ows
Sounds like a scorched earth policy.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:53 AM
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10. Good live video:

http://www.ustream.tv/TheOther99

reporting NO teargas at kitchen, it was fire extinguisher.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 03:57 AM
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11. Police say streams must come down.
NYPD SPECIAL OPS SCANNER FEED- INTEL SAID STREAMS MUST COME DOWN
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 04:08 AM
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12. photo of sonic sound truck at Zucotti Park
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 04:20 AM
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13. thank you for the photo
Now we know.
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 04:48 AM
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14. If you click on "Discover who @JoshHarkinson follows"
on the right side, you can read a lot of other tweets.
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