With temperatures in the mid-30s, Ashley Perry warms up by a campfire in Occupy Tampa's new West Tampa encampment.
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With temperatures in the mid-30s, Ashley Perry warms up by a campfire in
About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category. Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population.
"Occupy Tampa affirms support for our brothers and sisters in law enforcement, who, as public sector workers, are a part of the 99% of the population that is not controlling most of the country’s wealth. We understand the police have orders to follow from the politically motivated city administration and that to disobey those orders could result in their termination with the force."
Kayvan Sabehgi, 32, a former Army ranger who served two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a ruptured spleen after being beaten with batons by police while he was walking home from an Occupy Oakland protest. After being arrested,
Oakland police use chemical weapons on peaceful protesters.