【纽约时报111027】各城市开始打击“占领运动”

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【中文标题】各城市开始打击“占领运动”

【原文标题】 Cities Begin Cracking Down on ‘Occupy’ Protests

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[url=]【来源地址】[/url]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/us/oakland-and-other-cities-crack-down-on-occupy-protests.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

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在奥克兰，这里的场面让人想起20世纪60年代的反战抗议活动，周二晚间市区的街道上都是警察，他们用催泪瓦斯阻止成群结队的示威者重新进入了市政厅广场，，他们的营地在当天早些时候已被清除。
这次抗议活动超过100人被捕，并至少有一人生命受到威胁，这次占领活动的支持者准备再次夺回广场，而营地点广场已被隔开。
这次行走结束后不久，数百名示威者开始沿奥克兰的中央道路百老汇开始行走，这是计划外的。奥克兰警察没参与市政厅的抗议活动中，开始穿上防护防暴装备，几个BART系统出入口被封闭，这进一步煽动示威者，并增加在奥克兰的日益紧张的气氛。
同时，横跨海湾的旧金山，官员们也貌似击中了他们的突破点，他们警告说，数百名示威者在市中心违法露营。还担心营地的不健康、肮脏的条件带来问题。
亚特兰大里德（Kasim Reed）市长周三早些时候下令警方逮捕50多个抗议者，在情况变得越来越不安全时，撤走了在市中心公园他们的帐篷，决定，这种情况已成为不安全后，尽管最初发令可以让他们在营地过夜。
类似的对抗情况可能很快就会传到其他城市，包括普罗维登斯，Angel Taveras市长发誓要从10月15日示威者占领以来寻求法院命令，以撤走在伯恩赛德公园的示威者。
而其他包括纽约，波士顿和费城等的大城市，已经采取了更为宽容的态度对待行走者，至少是现在来说。官员们仍面临着在营地里犯罪，卫生和无家可归者的问题。洛杉矶市议会通过一项决议支持抗议者，市长Antonio R. Villaraigosa周三警告说，他们不会无限期呆在大市政厅外。
全国各地的市长说，他们发现越来越发现自己走一个复杂和政治上微妙的线，同时要尊重言论和集会自由的权利，也越来越担心抗议活动不能停留在有序和安全的形式下。
Taveras估计大约有200人驻扎在普罗维登斯，尽管在这里禁止该项行为。他说“我们可以做很多事情来帮助他们，但我们不能容许无限期地呆在那里，我们不能让他们继续违反法律。”
抗议出现了松懈的迹象。例如，在芝加哥示威者聚集在伊曼纽尔市长办公室外，要求24小时进入格兰特公园，并要求释放300多名被捕示威者。
即使在民主芝加哥，官员在维持秩序同时似乎也允许有异议。伊曼纽尔先生的发言人克里斯•马瑟（Chris Mather）说，”我们一直在努力取得平衡。奥美女士补充说，市长办公室曾试图与示威者会面，他们本身也想试图找到一个永久的家。
事实上，一些城市的官员说，占领运动周围增加的紧张局势所涉及的团体中几个公认的领导者。
费城市政厅外的帐篷看起来都形成了抗议小村子，总经理理Richard Negrin说，“对付他们的决策过程，这是一个重大的挑战。”
OAKLAND, Calif. — After weeks of cautiously accepting the teeming round-the-clock protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street, several cities have come to the end of their patience and others appear to be not far behind.
Here in Oakland, in a scene reminiscent of the antiwar protests of the 1960s, the police filled downtown streets with tear gas late Tuesday to stop throngs of protesters from re-entering a City Hall plaza that had been cleared of their encampment earlier in the day. And those protests, which resulted in more than 100 arrests and at least one life-threatening injury, appeared ready to ignite again on Wednesday night as supporters of the Occupy movement promised to retake the square. Early Wednesday evening, city officials were trying to defuse the situation, opening streets around City Hall, though the encampment site was still fenced off.
But after about an hour of speeches, the crowd removed the fences. The number of protesters swelled to about 3,000 people, but the demonstration remained peaceful. Leaders led a series of call-and-response chants. “Now the whole world is watching Oakland,” was one phrase that was repeated as passing cars honked in approval. That police had gone, compared with a heavy presence the night before.
Across the bay, meanwhile, in the usually liberal environs of San Francisco, city officials there had also seemingly hit their breaking point, warning several hundred protesters that they were in violation of the law by camping at a downtown site after voicing concerns about unhealthy and often squalid conditions in the camp, including garbage, vermin and human waste.
In Atlanta, Mayor Kasim Reed ordered the police to arrest more than 50 protesters early Wednesday and remove their tents from a downtown park after deciding that the situation had become unsafe, despite originally issuing executive orders to let them camp there overnight.
And like many of his mayoral colleagues nationwide, Mr. Reed openly expressed frustration with the protesters’ methods.
“The attitude I have seen here is not consistent with any civil rights protests I have seen in Atlanta,” Mr. Reed said in an interview, “and certainly not consistent with the most respected forms of civil disobedience.”
Similar confrontations could soon come to pass in other cities, including Providence, R.I., where Mayor Angel Taveras has vowed to seek a court order to remove protesters from Burnside Park, which they have occupied since Oct. 15.
And while other, bigger cities, including New York, Boston and Philadelphia, have taken a more tolerant view of the protests — for now — officials are still grappling with growing concerns about crime, sanitation and homelessness at the encampments. Even in Los Angeles, where the City Council passed a resolution in support of the protesters, Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa warned Wednesday that they would not be allowed to remain outside City Hall indefinitely.
Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston, echoed that. “It’s a daily assessment for us,” she said.
More and more, mayors across the country say they have found themselves walking a complex and politically delicate line: simultaneously wanting to respect the right to free speech and assembly, but increasingly concerned that the protests cannot stay orderly and safe.
“We can do lots of different things to help them on our end,” said Mr. Taveras, who estimates that roughly 200 people have camped out in Providence despite a city rule forbidding such behavior. “But we cannot allow an indefinite stay there, and we can’t allow them to continue to violate the law.”
The protests showed little sign of slacking. In Chicago, for example, demonstrators gathered Wednesday outside the office of Mayor Rahm Emanuel requesting 24-hour access to Grant Park and demanding that charges be dropped against the more than 300 protesters arrested there in the past weeks.
“He’s denying us our constitutional right to not only free speech, but peaceful continual assembly,” said Andy Manos, 32, one of the protesters.
Even in Democratic Chicago, officials seemed to straining to allow for dissent, while maintaining order. “We’ve been working hard to strike a balance,” said Chris Mather, a spokeswoman for Mr. Emanuel. Ms. Mather added that the mayor’s office had tried to set up meetings with protesters, who themselves said they were trying to find a permanent home for their demonstrations.
Indeed, some city officials said the tensions surrounding the Occupy protests have been increased by the fact that many of the groups involved have few recognized leaders.
“It’s a significant challenge to deal with their decision-making process,” said Richard Negrin, the managing director of Philadelphia, where tents form a protest village outside City Hall.
In Oakland, where one protester — Scott Olsen, an Iraq war veteran — was in critical condition at a local hospital after being struck in the head with a projectile during the chaotic street battle on Tuesday, city officials defended their actions, saying the police used tear gas after being pelted with rocks. The police are investigating what happened to Mr. Olsen.
As the protests continued, worries about possible violence percolated.
In Atlanta, Mr. Reed said the last straw came Tuesday, when he said a man with an AK-47 assault rifle joined the protesters in Woodruff Park. On Wednesday, after all protesters who had been arrested were released on bond, some said the man with the assault rifle — who was carrying it legally under Georgia law — was not part of their group and should not have been a factor in shutting them down. “We don’t even know that guy,” said Candi Cunard, 26.
Protest organizers said many of the troublemakers in Oakland and elsewhere were not part of the Occupy movement, but rather were anarchists or others with simply with a taste for mayhem.
“The people throwing things at police and being violent are not part of our ‘99 Percent’ occupation,” said Momo Aleamotua, 19, a student from Oakland. “They’re not us, and they’re not welcome.”
Still, the scenes of tear gas in the streets and provocative graffiti — including one spray-painted message reading “Kill Pigs” in Oakland — have been seized on by some Republicans to try to make the protests a political liability for Democrats.
On Tuesday, for example, the National Republican Senatorial Committee circulated a report that two people living in the Occupy Boston tent with a young child had been arrested for selling heroin, and paired it with comments from Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic contender for Senate from Massachusetts, in which she said that her work as a consumer advocate had helped inspire the Occupy movement.
“She’s not only standing with those breaking the law and being arrested,” the committee’s release read, “She’s actually taking credit for them.”
The fear that the group’s political message was being lost also resonated with Maria Gastelumendi, who runs a sandwich shop in downtown Oakland.
As a small-business owner, Ms. Gastelumendi said she supported the protests — “There’s been no bailout for us” — but worried that things might end badly. “The occupiers were very organized and very committed,” she said. “But there’s other people who are just opportunists.”

Jesse McKinley reported from Oakland, and Abby Goodnough from Providence, R.I. Reporting was contributed by Malia Wollan from Oakland, Ian Lovett from Los Angeles, Jess Bidgood from Boston, Robbie Brown from Atlanta, Kate Zernike from New York, and Steven Yaccino from Chicago.

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