Document Drop: The Battle For Zuccotti Park

[brooklynite]

Source: NY Daily News

First, the city's response to the court order enjoining the city from taking action at the park, and the letter sent by park operator Brookfield to the city, asking that Zuccotti be cleared for cleaning.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/103083576/NYC-Filing-Re-OWSZuccotti-Park

Brookfield Letter to the Mayor Re Zuccotti Park

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/103086458/Brookfield-Letter-to-the-Mayor-Re-Zuccotti-Park

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2011/11/document-drop-the-battle-for-zuccotti-park

[PoliticAverse]

1. Slightly easier to read version of the City's response...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/266733-citys-brief-opposing-stay-of-eviction.html

[elleng]

2. Thanks

[JDPriestly]

3. The actual complaint appears to be that what looks very similar to

a homeless camp has arisen in the proximity of Wall Street.

As one who worked on Skid Row and walked past homeless people each day, I find this very interesting.

How do the people in the brokerage houses on Wall Street think that homeless people live? In clean apartments with good plumbing, safe electrical wiring and heating?

By definition a person with that kind of life is not "homeless."

So Wall Street got a taste of the homeless life if only for a few months.

And they still feel no compassion or shame.

This is what happens in a society in which the rich are insulated from the suffering of the poor. That situation will not exist for long.

Poverty has gradually become so common that we who still claim to be middle class can hardly get through our day without its confronting us.

Mayor Bloomberg and his attorneys have a lot to learn about what havoc Wall Street's excesses have caused in our country.

Shame on them.