Blog: Above the Fold

Richmond, VA - I recently spent 16 days in occupation of Kanawha Plaza-a public park in the middle of Richmond, Virginia's financial district-in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests. We were camped out in front of and on top of the Federal Reserve (two-thirds of that bitch is underground), we were also next to several poisonous banks and lobbying firms. At about 1am on Halloween morning, the Richmond Police Department set up barricades at the major adjacent intersections and subsequently raided our camp, giving us less than an hour to clear out what had take us over [...]