It finally happened. In this video Mayor Plutocrat says he ordered the removal of the protesters because they were keeping others from using the "park." There is, of course, not a word of truth in any of it.
I suspect our corrupt mayor was reluctant to take this action as it might interfere with his exploiting his office for personal gain. My guess is the orders for this outrage came from much higher up the food chain.
Here's a lengthier video of the eviction from Westlake.
And here is a good brief video of the movement nationally.
Here's Olberman reading a statement from OccupyWallStreet:
And while I am in unequivocal solidarity with these Occupy- events, as an anarchist I feel compelled to point out that it is being widely reported that these convocations are being run by anarchists and along anarchist principles. This is not so. Here are two brief critiques which have appeared on a local anarchist website
http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/node/986
http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/node/992:
