Occupy Albuquerque on Oct 01, 2011
10/22/11
Albuquerque City Council formally recognized OccupyABQ!
10/15/11
Huge turnout on Oct 15 in Albuquerque – est. 900-1000, three times the first protest! Yay
Motley News: Occupy Albuquerque The Protest Heard Around the World Oct 15 2011
10/08/11
Motley News:
Occupy Albuquerque – Protester arrested ” Today, Occupy Albuquerque combined efforts with an Anti-War protest as they marched down Central Ave. The local Albuquerque Police Department maintained decorum and
actually assisted with traffic control as the march led on. Once the march returned to Coyote Camp, the police arrived and arrested an individual. However, once back at Coyote Camp, the police arrived and arrested an individual. “
Although a cold has kept me away from getting more pics, etc. this week, I was close enough to this protest to hear the helicopter overhead. My neighbor investigated for me and gives an eyewitness account of what he saw:
“On the walk up I saw about 25-30 police cruisers staged at Copper & Truman ready to go, plus 7 more across the street in another parking lot. Talked to a few people at Central/San Mateo — the main protest had started off much like last week, but during the march east on Central apparently a splinter group decided to do some mischief.”“Protesters had ‘invaded’ four banks along Central — Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Bank of Albuquerque, and Bank of the West — then marched south to Walmart where they stormed into the store there. During the bank invasions they intimidated bank tellers or anyone else around, screaming and spitting at them, same at Walmart. Not smart.”“Then I witnessed protesters coming from Walmart back to the intersection, where they marched in a circle in the middle of the intersection (Central & San Mateo) for a few minutes before settling down on the northeast corner in a ragtag group with some walking out into the street against the lights.”
Members of the peaceful, non-violent OccupyAlbuquerque local movement are having talks with some of these activists to ensure that this remains a peaceful occupation—agressive activity not wanted. The local employees are also the 99% so give them positive energy!
10/01/11
My friends and I attended the Albuquerque NM protest on Oct 01 2011 to show our own solidarity with OccupyWallStreet – a couple of my pics and videos are below but many more pics and videos can be seen HERE. 400+ showed up.
Sibel Edmonds: Boiling Frogs Post
OWS solidarity march Albuquerque NM Oct 01 2011
Hashtag #occupyburque
Motley News & Photos: Lots of photos here!
“Occupy Albuquerque was a peaceful success. Several of us arrived early to begin setting up, and very quickly many more joined. At one point in time, we counted 197 people – and then, almost at the blink of an eye, the numbers nearly doubled. ”
