A few Occupy Denver protesters with signs have been mingling unremarkably with bargain hunters with tents outside the Sports Authority’s Denver Sports Castle.
“Tents for all” proclaimed one cardboard sign.
Occupy Denver, the outpost that sprang from the Occupy Wall Street anti-greed campaign last year, has been maintaining an off-and on presence among the total of 11 tents. About 20 shoppers have staked out their places in line for Sniagrab 2012, the celebrated Labor Day shopping event.
The group is protesting the city of Denver’s urban camping ban that passed in April. The ban outlaws people camping on the street and in parks. The Occupy Denver protests went on for months, as protesters and homeless people clashed sporadically with police at the encampment in Civic Center.
Occupy Denver has argued the measure attempts to outlaw homelessness.
Sniagrab is “bargains” spelled backward. Occupy Denver’s small group called itself Ssensselemoh, or homelessness spelled backward.
Each year, the sporting goods store pays for a city permit that allows campers to use the sidewalk to await the bargains on Saturday morning.
