Yesterday morning, Park Service police entered McPherson Square and began pulling down tents—after making an agreement that tents, sans bedding, could stay up in protest. Lydia DePillis wrote yesterday over at Housing Complex:
Early this morning, the Park Police rolled into McPherson Square, set up barricades, took down the Tent of Dreams, distributed blue flyers describing [...]

McPherson Square, Feb. 1st.  © 2012 Matt Dunn

While Monday was supposed to be the end of sleeping and camping in McPherson square, the tents remain. According to the Examiner, the National Park Service is allowing tents to stay—they just can't have any bedding in them.
Protesters at both D.C. camps simply adjusted to the new regulations and continued on as they have before. [...]

To modest fanfare, members of the Occupy Movement in McPherson Square on Monday covered the statue of the eponymous Civil War general with a hand-painted tarp festooned with stars and dubbed the "Tent of Dreams." The equestrian statue of James Birdseye McPherson (yes, Birdseye!) was designed by sculptor Louis T. Rebisso (1837-1893), who was a [...]

Man held by NPS after trying to remove the "Tent of Dreams" tarp from the statue.

McPherson Square, Jan. 31st.  © 2012 Matt Dunn

Is Our Deer Learning?: Maybe it's not too late to change the award-winning designs of some of the new libraries around town. Because, apparently, the local fauna have trouble with lots of windows. A deer crashed through the plate glass in the interim library in Washington Highlands today, shattering the window; the deer had to [...]

Slideshow McPherson Square, Jan. 30th.  © 2012 Matt Dunn

Slideshow NSFW. Around 16th and K St. NW.  Jan. 28th.  © 2012 Matt Dunn

It's official: Mayor Vince Gray wants Occupy D.C. out of McPherson Square. News broke last night that Gray had sent a letter to the National Park Service requesting that the protesters be relocated to the Freedom Plaza encampment for public-health reasons.  "The most serious of these concerns include dangerous rat infestation as well as the [...]

While the National Park Service has said that it has no plans to evict the McPherson Square or Freedom Plaza protesters, a lawyer for one McPherson group has filed a lawsuit that would prevent the Department of the Interior from evicting the occupiers without a trial. The Examiner reports:
The Park Service has already posted warnings [...]

McPherson Square, Jan. 1st.   © 2012 Matt Dunn

McPherson Square.  © 2011 Matt Dunn

Full Gallery.  Dead Prez and Head-Roc at Occupy DC.  © 2011 Matt Dunn

McPherson Square, Dec. 18th.  © 2011 Matt Dunn

McPherson Square, Dec. 18th.  © 2011 Matt Dunn