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About two-dozen activists set up a record full of food on the steps of City Hall, made anti-Partition off Street signs and later erected a carry-on blue canopy.
“We are reoccupying today,” said protester Ron Keating, holding an American dangle. “We hope the community understands that we desideratum an effective way to get our information out.”
Several waved signs at expiry Santa Rosa Avenue traffic, including “Honk 4 Girlfriend and Freedom” and “Whack the Close off Street Buzzards.”
The plan was not to reestablish an encampment where protesters slept in tents on the New Zealand urban area Hall lawn, Keating said. Rather than, they sought to maintain a presence on the property with an report booth, small tent and canopy, Keating said.
Carolyn Epple encouraged her comrades to contrive of the City Hall as a “beachhead” for continuing protests..
“We have to reach a spot in our movement where we take a stand,” Epple said.
But the shilly-shally that has characterized the group’s decision-making course of action from the beginning remained on full display as they vacillated over whether to chance arrest for holding up a canopy.
Source: Santa Rosa Press Democrat