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Bolden: The professor is wrong.
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Occupy New Haven erects pre-eviction barricades.
As the city considers how to clear up “troubling” laws about the New Haven Green, a law professor present for the legal wrangling over Occupy New Haven argued that the proposed fix would violate people’s First Amendment rights.
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by | Nov 12, 2013 9:16 am | Comments (28)
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Occupy New Haven in its heyday.
Under proposed new rules, the next time a ragtag band of political protesters wants to “occupy” the New Haven Green, they’d have to get written permission, pay for cops and porta-potties, and secure a bond for any damage they might cause.
by | Jun 8, 2012 5:30 pm | Comments (11)
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As the lovefest between city government and Occupy New Haven devolved into a dusty legal standoff, taxpayers ended up ponying up $65,280.61 for legal advice.
by | May 10, 2012 7:53 am | Comments (13)
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Doomsday & Aubin at Occupy before the camp’s demise.
As the Occupy New Haven camp fades into memory, federal agents have started paying housecalls to its erstwhile members and Fair Haven neighbors, and looking for a former leader who won’t answer their phone calls.
by | Apr 27, 2012 1:42 pm | Comments (15)
A judge ordered a dozen Occupiers arrested at last week’s police round-up to perform five hours of community service each — but not at Bank Of America.
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by | Apr 18, 2012 4:08 pm | Comments (13)
With Occupy New Haven gone, the city is left with a “concrete” dust bowl and a tree that will likely have to come down. The grass could return by summer.
by | Apr 18, 2012 12:48 pm | Comments (3)
Officials took a victory lap after peacefully uprooting New England’s longest-running “Occupy” encampment Wednesday — then reflected on the cost, as well as the importance, of free speech.
by | Apr 18, 2012 9:23 am | Comments (19)
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8:28 a.m.: Members of the “99 percent” carry protester to arrest bus.
8:36 a.m.: Police transport Occupy protester Sara Neal, who pleaded with them to join the Occupy movement.
(Updated) Police made 13 arrests as they evicted New England’s longest-standing anti-corporate “Occupy Wall Street” outpost — this time before payloaders moved in.
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by | Apr 17, 2012 5:19 pm | Comments (1)
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Plaintiff Danielle DiGirolamo.
A Superior Court judge rejected an 11th-hour complaint from Occupy New Haven Attorney Irv Pinsky at the close of business Tuesday, leaving no immediate legal recourse to prevent an expected Wednesday morning eviction.
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‘Housing Judge Rejects
Last-Ditch Occupy Filing’
by | Apr 17, 2012 4:01 pm | Comments (8)
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Occupy New Haven began to tear down most of its 6‑month-old encampment Tuesday afternoon, as the group lost the latest battle in a fight to stay on the Green. Occupiers said they plan to keep a small presence on the Green.
by | Apr 17, 2012 11:05 am | Comments (15)
(Updated with exclusive details of court hearing.) In a victory for City Hall, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the city does have the right to remove the 6‑month-old Occupy encampment from the New Haven Green after one last round of lively courtroom debate.
by | Apr 16, 2012 9:14 pm | Comments (2)
Police charged a Yale senior with larceny Monday evening after three Occupy New Haven members chased him and his friends to their frat house.
by | Apr 16, 2012 8:06 am | Comments (3)
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Sean Conlon prepares the stage for the bands Sunday.
Members of New England’s stripped-down, longest-standing “Occupy” encampment celebrated an improbable six-month anniversary with live music and questions about how to keep their movement alive after an imminent expected end.
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‘Still Standing, For
Now A Half Year Later’
by | Apr 12, 2012 11:15 am | Comments (19)
After a verbal beating from an opposing lawyer on New Haven’s classic rock radio station over the botched eviction of Occupy New Haven, and with a newly scheduled court hearing looming, Mayor John DeStefano took to the airwaves — and found popular support.
by | Apr 11, 2012 3:17 pm | Comments (10)
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Smith wins no support for his proposal at an Occupy meeting.
(Updated) Josh Smith, one of eight named plaintiffs in Occupy New Haven’s suit against the city, said it’s time to fold up the tents and declare victory.
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by | Apr 11, 2012 7:42 am | Comments (14)
The city will have to shell out thousands of dollars to fix Occupy New Haven’s damage to the Green, if and when it succeeds in removing the protest camp, according to city Chief Administrative Officer Rob Smuts.
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‘Post-Occupy Clean-Up
Will Cost The City $25K’
by | Apr 10, 2012 4:19 pm | Comments (27)
Protesters put their bodies on the line.
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Cops arrest Sara Ferah.
(Updated) Forty minutes after they began dismantling New England’s longest-standing “Occupy Wall Street” encampment, police and public-works crews officially halted the eviction as word spread of a last-minute federal court order.
by | Apr 10, 2012 3:41 pm | Comments (3)
A federal appeals court stopped the city from evicting Occupy New Haven from the upper Green at the last minute Tuesday after the city never responded to a request to file a brief.
by | Apr 10, 2012 7:34 am | Comments (40)
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“Snake,” “Cricket,” and “Coyote” at their new hideout.
As the city prepares to dismantle Occupy New Haven on the upper Green at high noon Tuesday, three key organizers have decamped to an undisclosed location — to begin dismantling capitalism from the ground up.
by | Apr 9, 2012 1:33 pm | Comments (7)
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Barricades return as Occupy braces for the end.
The city can begin removing Occupy New Haven for good starting at noon Tuesday, a federal judge has ruled. Occupy’s attorney vowed to appeal to a higher court to prevent the city from moving against the camp.
by | Apr 6, 2012 3:53 pm | Comments (15)
New Haven’s Colonial inhabitants returned to the Green Friday to stage a protest against present-day protesters.
by | Apr 3, 2012 11:02 am | Comments (2)
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Public works staffers hauled off Occupy New Haven’s wooden pallet barricades and fire marshals ordered plywood signs removed, as Occupy infighting smear campaigns erupted on Facebook and Twitter and three key organizers decamped to an undisclosed location.
On the other hand, Quinnipiac Tribe Grand Sachem Iron Thunderhorse offered to guide occupiers on the path to becoming “true human beings” — from prison.
by | Mar 28, 2012 6:35 pm | Comments (63)
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Occupiers took the steps of federal court.
Norm Pattis traveled back centuries in Colonial history, took a theoretical turn as city parks director, and asked if he could force people driving through Bethany to hold chopsticks in their hand and sing the National Anthem.
He did all that in federal court. To try to save New England’s last standing “Occupy” encampment.
by | Mar 28, 2012 6:55 am | Comments (3)
Occupy New Haven scored another victory Tuesday afternoon in its battle to remain on the Green — a federal judge extended a restraining order preventing the city from removing the protest camp.
by | Mar 27, 2012 11:00 am | Comments (10)
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Exhibit A in the city’s new brief: Occupiers are harming trees.
After a federal judge told the city to draw up specific rules covering protest encampments on the Green, the city replied: We’ve got rules. We just haven’t been enforcing them.
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