99% looks like a empty field to me.
Posted on 10/17/2011 1:54:25 PM PDT by matt04
Eight days after the movement started in Bushnell Park, Occupy Hartford awoke on a damp Thursday morning in a patch of land at Broad Street and Farmington Avenue, their small campground apparently tolerated by police as they continue to protest wealth disparity in the United States.
On Wednesday, Hartford police issued a statement saying city regulations prohibit tents at the little plot of land, which the protesters have named "Turning Point Park," but Brian Jeffrey, who stayed there overnight, said there was no trouble from police.
Jon Prue, an organizer with Occupy Hartford, said the group initially moved from Bushnell Park last week because signs posted in the park say it closes at dusk and they didn't want to cause trouble with police. Although tents supposedly are prohibited, police did say the group could put up event canopies if the group obtains the necessary permits.
Jeffrey and Prue both said Occupy Hartford is seeking the permits and continues to communicate with police.
Occupy Hartford has attracted a variety of faces, a mixed group of young and old, unemployed and employed and even some homeless.
Earlier this week, Lillie Lavado, 28, of West Hartford, sat in a lawn chair near the road with her 5-month-old daughter Mariam in her lap, waving at cars driving by and encouraging them to honk in support of the Occupy Hartford movement.
"I want to make other parents comfortable to be here," she said. "This movement isn't just hippy art students."
Makeshift signs, deflated tents, lawn chairs and even activity tables with bubbles for children lay scattered across the plot of land.
"I want to support those who can't be here," Lavado said. "I know people who work around the corner, but they can't be here every day.
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99% looks like a empty field to me.
Of course, that would mean people would have to show up.
Where it will probably blow up is in St. Louis or Chicago.
I don’t even go into Hartford to watch hockey games (and I am a confirmed hockey nut). No way you would catch me ‘occupying’ Hartford for much of any reason. Maybe to protest lefties at the Capital during the day, but overnight? Pfft, no thanks. I value my life more than that.
Apparently all the latte liberals in the area agree.
With the former, and now that the city of St. Louis is going to be hosting the World Series and it looks like TX this year is on FIRE, it could sure get ugly should St. Louis Cardinals lose.
Earlier today it was reported that a man at Occupy Hartford was arrested for pulling a steak knife on another man in a tent. The reason? He was agitated over having to share blankets with the other man.
Oh the irony.
Hahaha - seriously
No kidding. “Get your hands off my blanket. I’m a 99%er, not the 1%er. Go steal their blanket.”
I wouldn't walk alone at night anywhere in the Hartford city limits. The downtown core where all the high rise office buildings are fine 8am to around 6:30pm, but I wouldn't go for a stroll at night. It's literally blocks from the Albany ave. section of the north end of Hartford which is one of the worst ghettos in the country and the area immediately to the west and south of city are also bad. No area of Hartford is nice to live in. Pope park section is horrific. North end is a war zone. Area near the hospital is horrific. Basically the city is a crime ridden ****hole.
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/connecticut/1308767-new-hartford-area-unsafe-areas-windsor.html#ixzz1b8mL6D7b
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