Reports of end of Occupy Charlottesville premature

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Occupy Charlottesville is still alive and well and focusing on continuing to build community while highlighting among other issues the great level of income disparity in this country, according to a press release shared today with AugustaFreePress.com. According to the release, the Nov. 30 action that resulted in several members being arrested for trespassing in…

Nancy Carpenter: Support for Occupy Charlottesville

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I am writing again to declare my support for all occupations including Occupy Charlottesville. All over the country, the work is just beginning to address what is unjust both morally and economically.  Here in Charlottesville, the plight of the homeless has been brought into our visual collective consciousness more so than it has in the…

Key Occupy Charlottesville leader steps down, warns others away after contentious meeting

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Occupy Charlottesville has taken a turn for the worse, with more radical sub-elements censoring moderate members and ideologically purging others. Evan Knappenberger, who signed for the group’s first permit, was the first member to speak to city council, and helped to negotiate the group’s stay with police before campers began spending the night in Lee…