Occupants prepare for officials to dismantle their encampment outside City Hall in Los Angeles

Occupy LA protesters block the streets around Los Angeles City Hall before the midnight deadline by Los Angeles city officials to shut down the encampment in Los Angeles on November 28, 2011. Police ordered Occupy L.A. protesters off the streets of Civic Center today so traffic could roll unimpeded but stopped short of enforcing the expired deadline for them to dismantle their tent city. UPI/Jim Ruymen