to the chief of police that if he were to take action, the conflict of removing people s belongings could lead to violent confrontation, and wanted to avoid that. i also expressed concern that if we were to try and stop that the occupation from happening, we would see more people taking part in that. we saw that happen in oakland just last week when the oakland police department had moved against the occupation in oakland and led to huge by a confrontation were the police department was using tear gas and possibly other very dangerous tools to remove people from the occupation and also the streets of oakland. that was a very costly response, and i believe that now we see oakland, after all this huge, you know, pressure and force from the police department, we see that the occupation in oakland is continuing. it is stronger and larger than it was before. i expressed that concern to our police chief in san francisco. i support the movement. it is not like it is necessarily a
supporting the occupy wall street protest movement and urging major lead to a poll people s right to peaceful assembly and collaborate with occupysf to ensure the safety of the protesters, their supporters, and a greater public and the city and county of san francisco. supervisor avalos: very good. thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i want to thank you for your co-sponsorship for this resolution. supervisor campos, supervisor mar, supervisor chu, mirkarimi, kim, and supervisor winner. i am sorry. not the right one. scratch that. supervisor campos, supervisor kim, and supervisor mar. i wanted to buy for that co- sponsorship of this resolution does two things. it expresses support for the occupy wall street movement. it is something that i am wholeheartedly behind, especially in the expression of great frustration and concern about our economic system that for decades has been favoring the 1% over the greater 99%. wheezy tax breaks and major corporations and businesses that do
impressive from the website that is occupysf.com or you can actually donate contributions to the organization to other efforts of solidarity from labor organizations. i do see others here that have been a part of this, giving support to the movement. it has also been significant that when supervisors campos, at the lows, kim, chu, and others were out with many of you in the audience that wednesday morning, we saw the growth of thousands of people there until 4:00 a.m. or 5:00 a.m. in the morning. being part of the general assembly, i have also seen incredible democracy. i think a lot of the slogans that this is what democracy looks like you do not really understand it until you re there participating in people s democracy of the occupied movements. i also want to say that i am impressed that in the meeting, a number of us were with a number of the leaders of occupysf, labor, social justice, and clergy associations last thursday with the mayor s office, and there has been incr
is occupysf.com or you can actually donate contributions to the organization to other efforts of solidarity from labor organizations. i do see others here that have been a part of this, giving support to the movement. it has also been significant that when supervisors campos, at the lows, kim, chu, and others were out with many of you in the audience that wednesday morning, we saw the growth of thousands of people there until 4:00 a.m. or 5:00 a.m. in the morning. being part of the general assembly, i have also seen incredible democracy. i think a lot of the slogans that this is what democracy looks like you do not really understand it until you re there participating in people s democracy of the occupied movements. i also want to say that i am impressed that in the meeting, a number of us were with a number of the leaders of occupysf, labor, social justice, and clergy associations last thursday with the mayor s office, and there has been increasing communication with the cho
and we will look at the comments we actually have supervisor mar who would like to express some comments and supervisor campos as well. supervisor mar: first, i want to thank supervisor avalos for his leadership and all the activists that have been part of occupysf and oakland as well. i apologize that i will have to leave in about 10 minutes to get to another meeting that was previously scheduled. i wanted to a knowledge that, like supervisor of a less and supervisor campos and supervisor jane kim, i have also been part of solidarity efforts in building support for the occupation. i have seen a transformation of the movements in the short four weeks that has been truly impressive from the website that is occupysf.com or you can actually donate contributions to the organization to other efforts of solidarity from labor organizations. i do see others here that have been a part of this, giving support to the movement. it has also been significant that when supervisors campos,