Occupy Santa Fe may shut down
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Photo from Occupy Santa Fe's Facebook page
Check out this comment about Occupy protesters: “Mostly it’s been a haven for drunks and the mentally ill.”
Another blast from to “Go get a job right after you take a bath”?
Nope, it’s a quote from a member of Occupy Santa Fe, the movement based in “The City Different” that has been camping out for months for free as Santa Fe Mayor so that occupiers can remain at Railyard Park.
But in a front page article in the Wednesday (Dec. 28) edition of the , the movement appears to be breaking apart on its own as some members are fighting among themselves — literally.
Among some of the quotes in :
“I’m talking to them and the next thing I know, I’ve got a guy grabbing me by the throat.”
“I was trying to get him to shut up because he was yelling. I thought I could get him to sober up, but it didn’t work.”
“The bottom line is, there is no Occupy in Santa Fe. All those tents out there are empty.”
“We are doing our best to eliminate violence from our space.”
Since the camp came into existence in late October, between some in the Railyard who are homeless or with substance abuse issues and those who live in homes in Santa Fe who have embraced the “we are the 99 percent” rallying cry.
Now, according to the New Mexican article, the Occupy Santa Fe movement may shut down voluntarily by the end of this week — although one active member told Sharpe that the camp could re-open in the spring.
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Tags: David Coss, Newt Gingrich, Occupy Santa Fe, Occupy Wall Street, Santa Fe New Mexican
9:21 am on January 2nd, 2012
I saw your tease on the e-mail: “A haven for drunks and the mentally ill,” and was disappointed to find it did not link to a profile on either the NM Democratic House or Senate caucus.
9:45 am on January 8th, 2012
WE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM AT OCCUPY OAKLAND … THIS IS BECAUSE WE ***ARE*** THE 99% —OR CLOSE TO IT: THEREFORE, WE CANNOT AUTOMATIC-LY EXCLUDE ANY-BODY … HOW-EVER, THERE WERE A FEW INDIVIDUALs WHO WERE ASK’D TO LEAVE, IE, ***MADE*** TO LEAVE, AS THEY WERE CAUSE-ING TOO-MANY PROBLEMs …
MEAN-WHILE, OCCUPY-MOVEMENT CONTINUEs, AND WE’R ***NOT*** GO-ING AWAY ANY-TIME SOON !!
9:48 am on January 8th, 2012
BTW: THERE WILL BE A NATIONAL-CONVENTION OF THE OCCUPY-MOVEMENT, THIS SUMMER, PROBABLY
IN EITHER PHILADELPHIA, PA OR WASHINGTON, DC … POSSIBLY ON JULY 4 …
PLEASE STAY TUNED . . . . .
SINCERE-LY, MARK “TRUTH-SEEKER” CREEK-WATER DORAZIO,
IN ALBUQUERQUE, FIX’N TO CONTINUE MY CROSS-USA WALK IN SUPPORT OF THE OCCUPY-MOVEMENT
8:22 pm on January 11th, 2012
Perhaps it is time to spray the weeds in the park there with agent orange. Whoops, some got on the OSF weeds infesting the park. Too bad.