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alp227

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Sat Sep 22, 2012, 01:03 AM Sep 2012

SF Occupy camp now a homeless haven

Last fall, the sprawl of tents and tables in front of the Federal Reserve building on San Francisco's Market Street was filled with the idealistic fire of the newly flowered Occupy protest movement, and everyone passing by got a flyer, a wave or a discussion on the politics of inequality.

Not so today.

The Occupy movement camp on Market Street near Drumm Street has devolved into a down-and-outer homeless encampment, and now even some Occupy activists are saying it's time for a change.

"We're moving, and we're going to let this camp collapse under its own weight," said camper Michael Clift, an Occupy organizer in San Francisco since the movement's beginning a year ago. "You've got your activists, and you've got your slack-tivists, and we need to get focused."

He gazed around at the tents, sleeping bags and shopping carts spread out along the sidewalk, taking up most of a blocklong stretch a few feet north of a chain link fence in front of the Federal Reserve building. In the center was a huge cardboard sign bearing Occupy statements and slogans, and a plastic table with Occupy leaflets.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-Occupy-camp-now-a-homeless-haven-3884645.php

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