Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | City officials reopened the central plaza Wednesday evening to hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters who made it clear that their movement was alive -- despite the dismantling of their camp a day earlier. Off limits, however, was the lawn that for 15 nights had accommodated the encampment. It was encircled by a cyclone fence. When a handful of protesters jumped the fence, the crowd began to chant: "Go around. Go around." A few others retorted: "Tear it down." By 7 p.m., demonstrators had quietly taken the fence down and the crowd began flooding onto lawn. "Hey look," one man said. "We retook the plaza. Whaddaya know?" There were no police in sight. |