“Occupy Wall Street” protesters lost a bid to overturn their eviction and the removal of tents and structures from a lower Manhattan park where they had been demonstrating 24 hours a day for eight weeks, the good folks at Bloomberg report.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman, responding to a request that he reverse the eviction, ruled the protesters didn’t show “they have a First Amendment right to remain in Zuccotti Park along with their tents, structures, generators and other installations.”
The ruling may complicate demonstrators’ plans to mark the two-month anniversary of the movement tomorrow with calls on its website to “shut down Wall Street” and “occupy the subways.” The protesters said they’ll seek to “confront Wall Street with the stories of people of the frontlines of economic injustice,” then gather at transit hubs at the start of the evening rush across the city’s five boroughs...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-16/wall-street-protesters-can-t-reverse-park-eviction-new-york-judge-says.html
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