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Related: About this forumKansas City Occupiers worried they may be forced to leave (Longest Occupation?)
Posted: 03/28/2012
Last Updated: 6 hours and 12 minutes ago
By: Amy Hawley
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Occupy Kansas City protesters said they hold a record no other group like them does in the country.
However, the Kansas City Missouri Police Department does not seem to be impressed and its officers are taking action.
You may have thought Occupy KC protesters went away with the winter but they said they have stayed in tents protesting longer than any other Occupy group in the country.
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But Kansas City police asked them Tuesday and Wednesday to take down their structures in Penn Valley Park.
Read more: http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/local_news/Kansas-City-Occupiers-worried-they-may-be-forced-to-leave#ixzz1qUCCXus9
Last Updated: 6 hours and 12 minutes ago
By: Amy Hawley
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Occupy Kansas City protesters said they hold a record no other group like them does in the country.
However, the Kansas City Missouri Police Department does not seem to be impressed and its officers are taking action.
You may have thought Occupy KC protesters went away with the winter but they said they have stayed in tents protesting longer than any other Occupy group in the country.
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But Kansas City police asked them Tuesday and Wednesday to take down their structures in Penn Valley Park.
Read more: http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/local_news/Kansas-City-Occupiers-worried-they-may-be-forced-to-leave#ixzz1qUCCXus9
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Kansas City Occupiers worried they may be forced to leave (Longest Occupation?) (Original Post)
ellisonz
Mar 2012
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Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)1. Hats off to occupy KC
PS
Suck it Chiefs! Go Broncos!
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)2. Occupy Rochester NY
has been hanging in there for a long time too, but I just read that they are being forced out of the park by Friday night. They actually struck an agreement with the city allowing them to stay over the winter, but the agreement has lapsed and the city has ordered them out. They appealed in court but lost yesterday.
unionworks
(3,574 posts)3. Solidarity
...with OKC! It takes guts and stamina to hang onn for that long.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)4. I dunno - Occupy LR has been out there since November & they are still going strong
I'll have to check on the date of when they started.
ellisonz
(27,736 posts)5. They tore it down.
Posted: 5:54 PM
Last Updated: 6 minutes ago
By: Mike Markewinski
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Friday marked the last day for the camp where the Occupy Kansas City movement once stood.
Trash trucks, men in white suits and police swarmed Penn Valley Park where tents were pitched 183 days ago.
They came in a convoy and rushed and told us we need to vacate, said Mike, a protester.
Kansas City police along with city crews tore down tents and threw away everything that was once belonged to occupy protesters.
Read more: http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/local_news/part-of-occupy-kc-movement-removed-from-penn-valley-park#ixzz1qdzno6p8
Last Updated: 6 minutes ago
By: Mike Markewinski
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Friday marked the last day for the camp where the Occupy Kansas City movement once stood.
Trash trucks, men in white suits and police swarmed Penn Valley Park where tents were pitched 183 days ago.
They came in a convoy and rushed and told us we need to vacate, said Mike, a protester.
Kansas City police along with city crews tore down tents and threw away everything that was once belonged to occupy protesters.
Read more: http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/local_news/part-of-occupy-kc-movement-removed-from-penn-valley-park#ixzz1qdzno6p8