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Occupy Supply and Occupy San Antonio (OSA) are working together to keep occupiers going through the winter season. Base-layers, hats, scarves, blankets and duck coats have now been delivered and distributed from Occupy San Antonio HQ in Hemisfair Park, located downtown.
While south Texas doesn’t get anything like the winters being experienced by northern-tier Occupations, San Antonio occupiers are not allowed tents or tarps or any other erected shelters–so they sleep without benefit of cover of any kind. Nights are down in the 40s and 50s now, but will drop into the 30s soon, and they’re grateful for help from Occupy Supply in advance of the cold weather ahead.
Occupy San Antonio recently participated in the Occupy the Ports action by sending a half-dozen protesters to Houston. Almost simultaneously, the City of San Antonio notified OSA that they would need to disperse within 48 hours of notice. Relations between OSA and the SAPD have typically been fairly cordial, and negotiations between OSA and the city (with help from the National Lawyers Guild), has produced at least a temporary solution–OSA will be moving to a different location within Hemisphere Park, and expect to be able to maintain the occupation for the foreseeable future.
For more information, OSA is presently rebuilding its website, but maintains a presence on Facebook, including a new effort to share information among all the occupations within Texas. They are also on Twitter (@osatx).
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Nice report Casual Observer! Thanks!
Thanks for reformatting the text wrap! Was hoping someone could fill the blank space, I couldn’t make it work.
[Ed. Note - it was our pleasure. Thanks for the great diary!]
Nice post. Good news. But it’s HEMISFAIR park, not Hemisphere. I’m a native San Antonian, and I was 10 years old when I went to Hemisfair ’68.
It was really hot. IBM and Russia had great exhibits. IBM had these things called “computers.” So did NASA. And the Tower of the Americas endures.
Glad to see you’re still with it. I’d be too, had I an Occupation here in Little Beirut.
solidarity from occupy tacoma. i saw video of the tent that was erected above the protesters being arrested in houston and found it chilling. i hope all your occupiers in san antonio emerged unscathed. thanks for the update and pics!
THANK you OB. Fixed. As a Spurs fan since the days of James Silas, don’t know how I blew that spelling.
Hey Hag, what happened in Portland, isn’t Occupy Portland still kicking ass up there?
I thought that was weird too. Don’t know why they felt they had to do that.
Wel, he port thing wen okay, but the Oregonian went nuts in opposition, and that kind of sewed up the story in a lot of minds. Lame, but true.
Nice and inspirational post here.
Thank you, Casual Observer, for this post and “Good job!” to folks standing up for us all in San Antonio.
San Antonio born and raised. So nice to hear that there’s an OSA. I will be visiting Texas in April/May, and I’m looking forward to talking with the OSA folks at HemisFair park.
GO SPURS GO!
Remember George Gervin the Iceman? I do. And I’m still a Spurs fan.