Posted on 10/14/2011 3:12:52 AM PDT by edpc
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street protesters scrubbed, mopped and picked up garbage at the corporate-owned park they have been occupying in an attempt to stave off a scheduled cleanup Friday that demonstrators suspect is a pretext to evict them.
While moving out mattresses and camping supplies, organizers were mixed on how they would respond when police arrive at the request of Zuccotti Park owners to help remove the occupiers from the public plaza so it can be cleaned.
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Did the park postpone the cleaning? Some note about that on #6.
Zuccotti Park, formerly called Liberty Plaza Park, is a 33,000-square-foot privately owned, publicly accessible park in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The park was created in 1968 by United States Steel, after the property owners negotiated its creation with city officials, and named Liberty Plaza Park and situated beside One Liberty Plaza. It is located between Broadway, Trinity Place, Liberty Street and Cedar Street. The park’s northwest corner is across the street from Four World Trade Center. It has been popular with local tourists and financial workers.
The park was heavily damaged in the September 11 attacks and subsequent recovery efforts of 2001. The plaza was later used as the site of several events commemorating the anniversary of the attacks. After renovations in 2006, the park was renamed by its current owners, Brookfield Office Properties, after company chairman John Zuccotti.
The city has POSTPONED the cleaning. Nothing today.
Cleaning postponed.
Unfortunately I don't get to listen to him as much , but I'm sure he's all over this. It's pretty much what he predicted last year.
It bothers me that at the same time they state that the Zuccoti Park OWNERS have requested the police to remove these people from what IS private property, they still claim the space is a “public plaza”. It’s either one, or the other. It cannot be both.
This point needs to be made abundantly clear to these people, and all their supporters who seem to think that these rules are somehow a violation of their right to assemble, and protest. In reality they are squatting on PRIVATE PROPERTY, without permission, and the owners have every right to demand that they ALL leave at once.
I’m honestly surprised that the folks who own Zucotti Park have let them stay as long as they have. No doubt there has been some real damage to the land itself as a result of these people’s actions. I suppose they don’t care about that though, because they figure the owners have more than enough money to repair anything they destroyed.
What I’d REALLY like to see is the owners go after the organizers PERSONALLY for any costs associated with repairing any damage to the property itself.
I have been watching him on my laptop but just ordered the Roku device so I can see it on the tele. Starting to go Galt on regular (DTV) broadcast. Paying way to much for the few channels I regularly watch. Just gotta figure out a way to get football and racing.
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