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Occupy Santa Cruz on Black Friday featured performances by DJs from Raindance Presents. Notice the post-Thanksgiving pumpkin occupie.

The Occupy Oakland Sound Truck live and in action during the march on November 19, 2011.

Occupy Oakland sets up camp at 19th and Telegraph on November 19, 2011.

Occupy Santa Cruz marched to city hall on November 7 to deliver a response to the city manager's unsolicited attempt to issue the group an event permit for its San Lorenzo Park occupation location. The video shows Occupy Santa Cruz questioning city manager Martin Bernal after the following response was read by the group: An Open Letter from the General Assembly of Occupy Santa Cruz to the People of Santa Cruz While the General Assembly of Occupy Santa Cruz appreciates the City authorities' public recognition that our assembly is within our First Amendment rights, we want to make known that the unsolicited permit issued to us violates these rights. Our permit is the First Amendment. We desire an open dialogue with city officials. Occupy Santa Cruz has both attended city council meetings and invited city officials to our meetings. No city official has yet participated in our General Assembly, which gathers daily at 6 PM and Sundays at 2PM on the courthouse steps. Plea...

"Does your office have the authority to prevent the police from dragging us out of the park?" On November 7, Occupy Santa Cruz participants ran into Vice Mayor Don Lane and spoke with him briefly as they delivered to the city manager their response to the city council's unsolicited attempt to issue an event permit for OSC's San Lorenzo Park occupation location.