Members of the Occupy Dallas protest moved their campsite from Pioneer Plaza to City Hall Park after pulling their request for a federal injuction allowing them to stay in Pioneer Park indefinitely.
“Dallas PD I don’t think wants to arrest anybody. We don’t want to have anybody arrested, and we’re more than happy to move,” Occupy Dallas organizer Michael Prestonise said to NBC DFW. “It’s actually going to be a great location.”
The group originally filed the injuction after the city revoked the group’s permit to stay in Pioneer Park on Tuesday and threatened to begin enforcing city ordinances such as park curfews and prohibition of sleeping in public places.
Before both parties were due in court Friday, the agreement had been reached to allow protesters to remain in City Hall Park until mid-December.
Though the group will be camping out in City Hall Park, they will continue to protest in Pioneer Plaza during the day.
Protesters from the movment have been camped out for over a week protesting the banking industry and Wall Street greed — though their specific complaints vary from protester to protester.
Occupy Dallas released a statement of purpose on Saturday. It reads as follows:
“Occupy Dallas will continue to exercise its rights to peaceably assemble; we will continue to occupy public space until the voice of the 99 percent is no longer silenced by the voice of the 1 percent; we will work to create a process to address the problems we face; we will work to generate solutions accessible to everyone. Occupy Dallas will continue to stand in solidarity with the occupations in the United States and around the world.”