Occupy San Antonio’s web site has been hijacked. The new URL is http://www.occupysa.net. Please update your bookmarks.
If you go to the old URL, you will notice it now leads to a blog claiming to be by the official Occupy San Antonio, now named Occupy Bexar. This is not true, and I advise you to proceed with caution. This page was created by a malicious hacker with a criminal past. If you post on his pages, you are releasing your IP number to this individual and risking your computer to attack.
#occupysanantonio
We are your tired
your poor
and your hungry
We are angry
compassionate
and hopeful
We are young
We are old
We are ageless
We are
an idea
and we are
invincible
We are the 99%
####
After Ticketing Occupy San Antonio for ‘Camping’, Police Settle Down for an On-Duty Nap
December 21, 2011, San Antonio — As you may know, the occupiers at Hemisfair Park have come under fire for allegedly violating a no camping ordinance. Even though the occupation is a twenty-four hour endeavor, falling asleep will quickly earn us a Park Police officer shining a light in our eyes, ticket book at the ready to deliver a costly citation. However, there seems to be quite a double standard. Last night our occupiers came across a police officer in his car in Hemisfair Park violating the no camping ordinance himself. He was fast asleep—so asleep, in fact, that the flash from our cameras did not wake him up. It took a fellow officer tapping his window with his flashlight to rouse him from his long winter’s nap. Of course, the officer did not recieve a citation for this dereliction of duty.
On the other hand, we do not wish to be overly harsh. The Park Police have long been overworked and underpaid. They are also part of the 99%, and part of the reason we protest. In that regard, we at Occupy San Antonio feel it necessary to bring attention to this very important issue. Park Police have been treated very unfairly by the city, and despite their current attitude of hostitlity toward our protest we still feel that had this officer been afforded the union coverage that is available to the SAPD this individual might not have been overworked to the point of needing to camp in a public space during his on duty hours.
Occupy San Antonio
occupysanantonio@yahoo.com
####
Subject: A Very Important Worldwide Specific Goal For All Protesters who Represent 99% Of Humanity
Dear Occupy San Antonio folks,
I’m sending this in your form here because I couldn’t find an E-mail address for your group.
This link is to the copy of the E-mail that I send to all Protest groups:
http://www.publicandprivateenterprise.org/TheCopyOfMyE-MailMessageSentToProtesters.html
You are listed as receiving it, along with the other ways your group, number (298), has been contacted in this link:
http://www.publicandprivateenterprise.org/TheListOfProtestGroupsWorldwideWhoWereSentMyMessage.html
Take care, John DeSantis
Hey guys, we thought you might be interested in this video our friend made a couple weeks ago to commemorate two weeks Occupying.
“A symbol, in and of itself is powerless, but with enough people behind it…”
#occupysanantonio is now being pressured by police. They have cut our power (as you’ll notice in the video), our water, denied us of blankets and rest, but we still remain at Hemisfair Park. In fact, not only do we remain, we have taken the tower. You can find us 24/7 at the Tower of Americas. :)
Occupy San Antonio Is Alive and Well in Hemisfair Park
December 18, 2011, San Antonio — To quote American writer, Mark Twain, “The rumors of our death are highly exaggerated”. We have not been ‘nudged’ from Hemisfair Park, nor budged in our conviction to occupy all day, every day, in order to call attention to our grievances.
Quite the contrary. We have rejected the area that the police have tried to force us into, where they have denied us amenities that have always been available to the public by cutting off our power and water supply. We have answered them by deciding instead to move our location in the park to the Tower of Americas, where we will be enthusiastically greeting convention goers and respected visitors to our iconic Tower and engaging them with information and discussion about the 99%.
We have no plans to cease our occupy. The public can find us 24/7. Look for the Tower of Americas in Hemisfair Park, where we will always be ready to speak to the good people living in and visiting our great city of San Antonio.
Occupy San Antonio
occupysanantonio@yahoo.com
Our website is currently down, but you can still access the forums at http://occupysatx.org/forum.
In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley, California, one of our greatest national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with batons. The picture darkened still further when Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests.
