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St. Pete protesters tell motorists to move their money out of big banks listen

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Tags: Bank of America, bailouts, Occupy St. Pete, Occupy Movement, Occupy Tampa, Occupy Wall Street

Bank of America may have changed their mind about charging fees to customers for using their debit cards, but that didn’t stop protesters in St. Pete from encouraging customers to ditch the banking giant. The group waved signs at a busy Bank of America in Northeast St. Petersburg on Saturday afternoon.

Remember, Remember the fifth of November. The phrase originates from an early 17th centu...

Occupy Tampa complies with police order to remove their shade, but vows to stay listen

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Tags: Occupy Tampa, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy DC, Occupy St. Pete, occupation, protests, protesters, protest, Tampa Police, ACLU of Florida, ACLU, First Amendment

Friday morning police told Occupy Tampa to take down parts of their sidewalk camp outside Curtis-Hixon Park. Tables and canopies have been removed, but the protesters are still allowed to stay and sleep.

Last Sunday night a police officer told Occupy Tampa that they could stay on the sidewalk. But two nights later [police told protesters they had to leave the sidewalk](http://www...

Occupy Tampa spends second night in downtown park listen

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Tags: Occupy Tampa, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Lakeland, Occupy St. Pete

Even though Police in other cities, like Boston, are arresting people camping in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, activists in Tampa seem to be safe for now. Occupy Tampa camped out on the edge of downtown’s Curtis Hixon Park for the second consecutive night. This morning, Bettejo Indelicato was one of the twenty or so protesters lining Ashley Drive.

“Well we had 28 people actually sleep over and during the night there were varied am...