OccupyHouston has posted the following on their site:
Emergency GA ASAP (instead of tonight at 7pm)
October 13th, 2011
The police have just informed us that we are to be out of Hermann Square Plaza by 7pm at the latest. We need AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE down here ASAP to help us decide what to do, to move any supplies that are moving, etc. and to take a stand if that’s what we/you decide to do!
This comes after yesterday's attests that mark a turn in the previously exceptionally good relationship in the OccupyHouston movement with the city and the police. They recently moved back to Hermann Square Plaza, right outside Houston City Hall after leaving that location to allow a Festival occupying Eleanor Tinsley Park in the interim.
They were among a group of more than 150 protesters outside the Mickey Leland Federal Building in downtown Houston, where a large group crammed into the building for a sit-in, drawing dozens of police in riot gear and inspiring moments of tension.
Several groups, including demonstrators aligned with the Occupy Houston movement, took part in the sit-in.
Eight people, including three women and five men, were charged with criminal trespassing. The demonstrators also involved people from the Jobs Not Cuts organization.
The protestors said they were upset about the lack of jobs and soaring unemployment rates nationwide, even as many major corporations have flourished during the recession. They descended on the federal building because Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison have offices there and voted Tuesday against beginning Senate discussion on a jobs plan, said Joel Coon, a spokesman for Good Jobs Great Houston.
http://www.chron.com/....
I am some distance from downtown. Perhaps someone else can report from the scene?