Wednesday, Feb. 15, 6:00 PM, Cesar Chavez and Lavaca

You Can’t Evict an Idea Whose Time Has Come: A panel discussion on the Occupy Movement and Civil Rights

With speakers from the Texas AFL-CIO, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Occupy Austin. Nationally, mayors and city councils have coordinated attempts to evict the Occupy movement wherever protesters have gathered. Alongside the criminalization of protest, city officials have engaged in a smear campaign against the Occupy movement calling it “unsanitary,” “expensive,” “unfocused,” and “violent.” City officials, though, have not had to answer for the erosion of civil liberties that is at the heart of their repression of the Occupy movement. It was, after all, only because of the symbolic “encampment” that the message of the Occupy movement received the national and international attention that it did.

Join us for a panel discussion on the legal and political implications of these evictions.