DALLAS — "Occupy Dallas" packed up its original downtown campsite at Pioneer Plaza and moved down the street to a smaller park in the shadow City Hall, beating a 5 p.m. Sunday deadline mandated by city officials.
Moving day went relatively smoothly. Facing eviction from Pioneer Plaza, the protesters agreed to shift their large camp a few hundred feet away to a lower-profile park.
Occupy Dallas, protesting corporate greed, had set up their first camp at a park in front of the Dallas Convention Center about 10 days ago.
Nearly everyone agreed to the move the city suggested. The protesters took great care to leave Pioneer Plaza clean.
Still, there were a handful of holdouts who insisted on remaining behind.
"When the govenment tells you to move and you are protesting, it makes sense to continue protesting," said Cymaeos Yunker, sitting on the lawn in front of a sign that read: "This is my home. This is my right."
While the main protest group will now be camping out away from Pioneer Plaza, they said they still intend to be spending a lot of time at the park.
Five people were arrested Saturday at the "Occupy Fort Worth" protest. Police cited two others.
Officials said they had a problem with setting up tents on the sidewalk. Those demonstrators returned to the area near Burnett Park on Sunday.
In Chicago, about 175 "Occupy" protesters were arrested early Sunday. They had refused to take down their tents and leave a city park.
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