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“It’s an absurd waste of tax money to spend police time and energy to break up a pure First Amendment demonstration.”
– The Texas Civil Rights Project’s Jim Harrington, assessing the city’s decision to arrest Occupy Austin participants
This article appears in November 4 • 2011.
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