<p>A tent city that is among the longest-lived Occupy protest encampments in the US is coming down as part of a new wave of eviction orders against demonstrators aligned with the movement in communities, including Miami, Washington and Pittsburgh.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Occupy Maine demonstrators removed several large tents over the weekend, and the city yesterday gave them additional time to remove the rest.<br /><br />Demonstrators who established the encampment just two weeks after the Occupy Wall Street encampment set up shop in New York City in mid-September vowed to continue their work to call attention to corporate excess and economic inequality.<br /><br />"Just because the occupation is changing form doesn't mean it's going away," Heather Curtis, one of the campers, said yesterday before she started hauling away her belongings from snow-covered Lincoln Park.<br /><br />The encampments that were the heart of the movement are becoming scarcer.<br />A judge yesterday issued what appeared to be the final notice for Occupy Pittsburgh to leave.<br /><br />Over the past week, police began removing demonstrators in Miami; Austin, Texas; and Washington, DC.<br /><br />The voices are still making themselves heard, though. About 20 demonstrators disrupted a legislative budget hearing yesterday in Albany, New York, shouting that millionaires should be taxed more.<br /><br />Albany's camp was busted up in December. Occupy Maine, which already has office space elsewhere in Portland, plans to continue getting its message out through other means, as well.</p>
<p>A tent city that is among the longest-lived Occupy protest encampments in the US is coming down as part of a new wave of eviction orders against demonstrators aligned with the movement in communities, including Miami, Washington and Pittsburgh.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Occupy Maine demonstrators removed several large tents over the weekend, and the city yesterday gave them additional time to remove the rest.<br /><br />Demonstrators who established the encampment just two weeks after the Occupy Wall Street encampment set up shop in New York City in mid-September vowed to continue their work to call attention to corporate excess and economic inequality.<br /><br />"Just because the occupation is changing form doesn't mean it's going away," Heather Curtis, one of the campers, said yesterday before she started hauling away her belongings from snow-covered Lincoln Park.<br /><br />The encampments that were the heart of the movement are becoming scarcer.<br />A judge yesterday issued what appeared to be the final notice for Occupy Pittsburgh to leave.<br /><br />Over the past week, police began removing demonstrators in Miami; Austin, Texas; and Washington, DC.<br /><br />The voices are still making themselves heard, though. About 20 demonstrators disrupted a legislative budget hearing yesterday in Albany, New York, shouting that millionaires should be taxed more.<br /><br />Albany's camp was busted up in December. Occupy Maine, which already has office space elsewhere in Portland, plans to continue getting its message out through other means, as well.</p>