Scenes from a one-year project documenting a local offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Select photos for captions.

Participants gather for Occupy Austin’s first day at City Hall plaza in Austin, Texas, Oct. 6, 2011 A protester speaks in front of Chase Bank in downtown Austin, Texas on October 10, 2011 as part of a push for a national Indigenous Peoples' Day. protesters refuse to move from the City Hall plaza steps in Austin, Texas, and are arrested for criminal trespassing An Occupy Austin participant displays a copy of Busted Newspaper. The cover featured mugshots of some of the group’s arrested members
Two Occupy Austin participants embrace while standing in the group’s encampment on City Hall plaza Occupy Austin participants march through downtown Austin. Their banner describes the group’s efforts to move money from big Wall Street banks Police evict Occupy Austin members from City Hall plaza in Austin Police gather in the parking lot beneath City Hall in Austin, a day after Occupy Austin’s eviction from the City Hall plaza
A small group of protesters refuse to move from the Austin City Hall plaza steps for pressure washing and were arrested for criminal trespassing in the early morning hours Police gather in the parking lot under City Hall Occupy Austin protests a foreclosure auction at the Travis County Courthouse Occupy Austin participants leave behind chalk graffiti outside a Chase Bank in downtown Austin
an Occupy Austin participant with her child chalks a sidewalk in front of the Texas Capitol during a Chalkupy the World protest Occupy Austin participants protest infiltration and entrapment by undercover police outside police headquarters Judge Joan Campbell questions a prosecutor about a photograph of undercover Austin police officers An Occupy Austin participant is arrested for pitching a tent outside an abandoned, city-owned Home Depot

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