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alp227

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Fri Jun 8, 2012, 12:31 AM Jun 2012

7 Occupy the Farm protesters won't face charges

Source: SF Chronicle

Alameda County prosecutors have decided not to file charges against seven people arrested on suspicion of unlawful assembly during the Occupy the Farm protest on UC Berkeley-owned land in Albany, officials said Thursday.

Campus police officers arrested the seven protesters May 14 on the university's 10-acre Gill Tract near Marin and San Pablo avenues after a three-week standoff.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/07/BAIC1OUO4S.DTL



This is a very short story; for more background see these Chron articles:

"UC sues over Occupy the Farm protest in Albany" (5/10/12)
"Occupy the Farm protesters end encampment" (5/13/12)
"UC police arrest 9 as they clear Occupy the Farm" (5/15/12)

Also the Daily Californian (UC Berkeley student newspaper) original report from 4/22: "Protesters occupy UC Berkeley-owned farm in Albany"
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7 Occupy the Farm protesters won't face charges (Original Post) alp227 Jun 2012 OP
Man, we were just carrying out a prank! Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2012 #1
All these false arrests are not holding up in court, so I guess they knew that after watching sabrina 1 Jun 2012 #2

sabrina 1

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2. All these false arrests are not holding up in court, so I guess they knew that after watching
Fri Jun 8, 2012, 01:30 AM
Jun 2012

all the dismissals lately for OWS cases. Now lawsuits are beginning.

Occupy is occupying the courts and so far, they are winning.

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