Occupy Oakland says it's not going anywhere

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Source: SF Chron

(10-21) 12:55 PDT OAKLAND -- With the threat of eviction looming, Occupy Oakland campers in the downtown Frank Ogawa Plaza said today that they would stand their ground, hopeful that a scheduled march this weekend and an influx of participants will bolster their encampment.

City officials posted a notice late Thursday ordering that the 300 to 400 people living in the shadow of City Hall stay out of the plaza between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and that they take down their tents. The online notice cited unsanitary living conditions, including a spreading rat problem, and threats to public safety.

Several occupiers said today that the city's concerns were unwarranted. They pointed out that the encampment has its own kitchen, medic tent, library and children's area, and argued that complaints about rats, drug crimes and violence in the area of 14th Street and Broadway went unchecked before they arrived nearly two weeks ago.

Khalid Shakur, 43, who has slept in the plaza since Oct. 10, said his fellow campers would ignore the city's eviction notice.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/21/BA6S1LKNVB.DTL

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Meanwhile the San Jose police arrested several Occupy San Jose protesters early this morning.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. K&R! Cleveland are also being told to move. It may be time to say NO! to this sort of bullshit.

We cannot take the victim role and keep falling back. They are waging war upon us.

[demosincebirth]

2. I a week, the rats will out number 'em