Occupy Seattle @ Seattle Central Community College
From CHS Capitol Hill Seattle Blog. by jseattle. Nov 28:
Occupy Capitol Hill | Banned camp — last week for Occupy at SCCC?
There were few signs of change at the Occupy Seattle camp Monday morning on Seattle Central’s campus following last week’s vote by community college trustees to invoke an emergency rule banning the camp from school property.
A lawyer representing Occupy Seattle filed a lawsuit to block the emergency rule on grounds the camping ban violates First Amendment-protected speech.
A Thurston County Superior Court hearing on the suit is scheduled for this Friday afternoon.
Occupy reps have said state and school officials told the group no action will be taken against the banned camp unti the results of Friday’s hearing are known.
SCCC president Dr. Paul Killpatrick told CHS he expects to work with campers for a peaceful eviction in coming weeks, not months.
In the meantime, some of the SCCC campers have traveled to Olympia this week for Occupy the Capitol efforts during the week’s special legislative session. Others affiliated with Occupy Seattle continue their takeover of an empty home at 23rd and Alder in the Central District. At Occupy’s Sunday night general assembly, the group voted to take part in this week’s planned West Coast port protests.
Monday morning, dozens of tents were still in place and campers were setting about tidying up and getting about their morning business as a TV news van set up on Broadway nearby. One barefoot man slept under a blanket in front of the row of chemical toilets. Another man moved a load of trash from an overflowing campus garbage can to a less-overflowing can.
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From Central District News. By Tom Fucoloro. Nov 20:
Members of Occupy Seattle occupy ‘abandoned’ building at 23rd and Alder
Members of Occupy Seattle have taken over an empty duplex at 23rd and Alder and plan to occupy it indefinitely, according to the Occupy Seattle website.
Occupy protestors say the house has been abandoned since the previous owner passed away, and that the group debated what to do with the space. Some even suggested “forming a work party to rebuild it for the community.”
According to the King County, the house is owned by Sander-Boman Real Estate Denmark West, who purchased the building in 2006 for $425,000. It was built in 1961 and renovated (at least partially) in 2008. Since then, work has stopped and it has been issued a series of DPD warnings including one noting the property was “open to entry via broken front window & crawl space” and another documenting “junk in yard includes mattresses, electronic equipment, bed frame, carpeting, furniture & other items.”
The house is across the street from Garfield High School.
Last week, two men were arrested as protestors attempted to occupy the Horace Mann school building.
Occupy Seattle is under increasing pressure to find better living arrangements for participants camping on the Seattle Central Community College Campus on Capitol Hill.
From Occupy Seattle:
Independent participants of the Occupy Seattle Movement have decided to indefinitely occupy an abandoned home in the Central District on the corner of 23rd Ave and E. Alder and are currently calling for support.
The occupiers came to the home during their march for the National Day of Action against State Repression of the Occupy Movement called for by the General Assembly in Oakland. They first marched past the juvenile detention center on 12th Ave and then reached the abandoned home.
A neighbor said banks took the home after the previous owner died several years ago and it has been uninhabited since.
Several occupiers in front of the home made speeches. They addressed how predatory lending, rent hikes, property taxes on homes, and police harassment have driven the working and middle class black community from the neighborhood. This has allowed banks, developers and other gentrifiers to move in.
After the speeches an ad-hock assembly decided to occupy the home and brainstormed ideas including forming a work party to rebuild it for the community.
In other Occupy Seattle news, Mark Root-Wiley posted earlier about an Occupy Seattle march down Yesler around 3:30 p.m. Marchers were chanting “Whose streets? Our Streets!”
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