Lauren Canario arrested in New London

[Russell Kanning]

It seems the best and easiest thing to do is to call various city offices. The calls are free and the police are always open. If people from this forum call once a day, they will feel under seige.

We are thinking about going down today. We are probably rained out at the Winchester Pickle Festival anyhow.

[Kat Kanning]

Here's the plan so far:

We're heading out to New London as soon as we can get Russell through the whole shower routine   We'll probably leave by 9:00.  We'll be in New London to rally for Lauren's release at around noon.  Caleb will have his cell phone: 603-209-7703 but doesn't know if it works down there.   We'll be outside the city jail: 5 Governor Winthrop Blvd. New London, CT

I know people had plans for today.  I'm hoping others will be able to go to New London tomorrow for another rally, if they can't make it today.  The weather's supposed to be really crummy tomorrow, though.

I think it'll help them want to get rid of her quicker if we're out there making them look bad.

[Russell Kanning]

(860)447-5281
Shift Supervisor

[Russell Kanning]

If you can't make it or if you are unsure of what is going on ...... call the new london cops.

[Dave Ridley]

called channel 8 and the sun paper around 10am to let them know about the demo

[tracysaboe]

Squatters evicted from Fort Trumbull neighborhood
Squatters evicted from Fort Trumbull neighborhood - story by Tina Detelj







(New London-WTNH, Sept. 22, 2006 4:50 PM) _ The Fort Trumbull neighborhood probably thought all the drama ended when the owners of some disputed homes left this summer. Not so. It seems several homeless people moved in on their heels, and Friday some demonstrators were carried away.

by News Channel Eight's Tina Detelj
In a show of defiance activist Lauren Canario refused to leave the porch of an abandoned home being boarded up in New London's Fort Trumbull neighborhood to keep homeless people out.

The former Las Vegas woman moved here to join the fight against eminent domain which went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Today Canario kept silent and let her body go limp as her husband videotaped her arrest.

The city began boarding up these homes right after homeless people set up camp here. Before her arrest Canario told us what she had seen in recent days.

"I've just seen a tent in the yard and some lights on in the building," Canario said.

A patch of yellowed flattened grass shows where one tent was set up.

There is also evidence in a nearby home that someone had forced their way in. Part of a door jam where the deadbolt goes in has been ripped out.

"I would actually welcome any homeless people to head on down here even though the accommodations are less than luxurious," Canario said.

Canario, who herself is living rent free in a vacant Fort Trumbull building, claims the homeless people were homesteading, not squatting.

"Squatting is being on someone else's land. Homesteading is taking land that no one has. It's pretty much abandoned is not being used."

But this land is going to be used as part of the city's economic development plan. John Brooks, the waterfront development manager, says boarding up these houses was already scheduled, not just a reaction to reports of squatters.

Developers plan to tear down these homes by the end of the year, but first they have to make sure all the asbestos in them has been removed.







 









 


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What's the URL so we can digg it.

Tracy

[David]

called today.  I asked about her charges.  He paused.(it wasn't lt Akley, but i forgot who.) He asked me my name.  During his pause I asked did she beat anyone up or extort money from anyone?  He told me her charges.  I asked who's property she trespassed on.  He said no comment then have a good day.  He hung up.   
I would love for him to tell me WHO'S property she trespassed on.  Oh well.   

[error]

Did this demonstration come off today? I'm preparing something for Homeland Stupidity. If you want to comment for the record, feel free.

[Dave Ridley]

Called the number russell gave us and punched in extension 20.  it took a while to get an answer but when the guy answered I gave him my name and told him I was with NHfree.com in New Hampshire.  I asked if they were still holding the fort trumball "prisoner of conscience" lauren canario.   He asked me to repeat her name and I did.  With little pause he said they were still holding her.   I asked him how he felt about that.  He said something like "was there any other information you needed? "  And I said I need to know how you feel about being a part of this.   So he said "was there any other information you needed?"  and I said "that was the information I needed,"  (I was referring to the information about how he feels about this).  He took it to mean I had the info i needed and then said something I don't remember, then hung up.

I called a second extension at the NLDC and left them my name and number,  asked them to confirm or deny the Jim's allegation that they had requested the arrest.

[error]

Everybody must be on the road or something, and I'm impatient, so...

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/09/23/one-arrested-in-new-london-eminent-domain-protest/

You do not own ?your? property. It belongs to the state. And whenever the state decides it wants to, it can take ?your? property from you, and give it to whomever it wishes, for whatever reason, or no reason at all. This was the effect of last year?s Supreme Court decision in the Kelo v. New London eminent domain case. But despite the fact that the case is long over, people are still protesting.

On Friday morning, Lauren Canario was arrested when she refused to leave one of the Fort Trumbull properties as developers moved in to board up the buildings.

Canario, who had been renting an apartment from one of the property owners, reportedly was sitting on the front porch of one of the buildings and refused to move. Police came in to arrest her and had to physically carry her away. She has been charged with criminal trespass, interfering with a police officer, and refusal to be fingerprinted, according to a New London police dispatcher who did not identify himself, is being held on $5,000 bail, and is being denied visitors, according to people who have attempted to schedule a visit.

A dispatcher could not say on whose property Canario was trespassing.

One of the officers involved said that he felt Canario ?victimized? him by refusing to submit to his oppression.

The properties had apparently, after the property owners were forced out, taken over by local homeless.

After the arrest, the New London Police Department and City Hall were inundated with phone calls from protesters asking why Canario was arrested, what the charges against her were, and if she was being treated well. People came from as far away as New Hampshire to protest Canario?s arrest at noon Saturday in front of the jail.

A year ago this week, Canario was arrested for trying to attend a New London City Council meeting. The council had postponed and moved the meeting at the last minute, apparently to prevent attendance by eminent domain opponents, and Canario was arrested for trespassing, interference with a police officer, and refusal to be fingerprinted.

When they come for your home, will you go quietly and take the table scraps they offer you, which is what most of the property owners in this case wound up with, or will you fight it to the bitter end ? and beyond?

[KBCraig]

What's the URL so we can digg it.

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5446360

[error]

You can digg my story, too. I won't complain.

[d_goddard]

Digg link!!
Want to get Lauren's plight known to THOUSANDS of people? Please click the Digg link:
http://digg.com/politics/Woman_Arrested_For_Refusing_To_Play_Along_With_Eminent_Domain

[Incrementalist]

Didn't the New London homeowners already give up?  I heard Kelo cut a deal to have her house moved to another location.

[Michael Fisher]

Where is she being held? A protest at the jail or prison is effective if the media shows up. If anyone needs the New London media contacts for a press release, I have them.