Highly Suspicious: OWS park in NYC must be "temporarily cleared" for clean-up

[WilliamPitt]

Per Mayor Bloomberg: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/12/new-york-protest-square-to-be-temporarily-cleared-mayor

OWS organizers are already getting people together to do the clean-up themselves, rather than clear the park.

If you're in NYC and can go help, please do so.

In the meantime, this smells reeeeeeally fishy to me.

Tomorrow might be a really serious day.

[H2O Man]

1. Interesting.

Thanks for this.

Recommended.

(I should be mailing you the book within 10-14 days.)

[tavalon]

2. Well, I guess I will have another person to send a big old "Thank You!" to

See my other thread where I offer up a thank you to all the police officers who have helped to bring this nascent protest to a true movement, all by being assholes and getting caught on cell phones doing it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2108322&mesg_id=2108322

Are these people really this stupid?

Edited to add: A genuine thank you to all of the OWS protesters throughout the country who have screwed my head back on straight. I'm not looking at the Beltway anymore, and I think that's a really, really good thing. As well, it gives me something to go do locally that can and just may impact my whole nation.

[meow2u3]

3. Bloomie thinks the 99%ers were born yesterday

They'reWe, the 99%ers, know he's using the park cleanup ploy as a pretext for kicking real Americans out of the park for good so his partners in crime on Wall Street don't have to answer for their crimes against humanity.

[AngryAmish]

4. don't trust the pigs, man

[tk2kewl]

5. Does Bloomberg really think they will just go away?

There are plenty of other spaces they can occupy if they shut down that park.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. they're going to clean the park themselves

After Mayor Bloomberg briefly visited the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park last night, his office released a statement formally ordering the protesters to cooperate with sanitation workers who will be dispatched to clean the park on Friday. "The cleaning will be done in stages," the announcement reads, "and the protesters will be able to return to the areas that have been cleaned, provided they abide by the rules that Brookfield has established for the park." But the demonstrators, who have been occupying the park for almost four weeks, aren't buying it. Instead, they're going to clean the park themselves. Their declaration reads:
On Wednesday/Thursday, all campers/supporters should reach out to friends/family/anyone to donate or purchase brooms, mops, squeegees, dust pans, garbage bags, power washers and any other cleaning supplies to be collected at sanitation. The sanitation committee should move full-speed ahead on purchase of bins allocated by consensus at GA.

After General Assembly on Thursday, we'll have a full-camp cleanup session. Sanitation can coordinate, and anyone who is available will help with the massive community effort! Then, Friday morning, we'll awake and position ourselves with our brooms and mops in a human chain around the park, linked at the arms. If NYPD attempts to enter, we'll peacefully/non-violently stand our ground and those who are willing will get arrested.


Afterwards, we'll march with brooms and mops to Wall Street to do a massive #wallstcleanup march, where the real mess is!


It seems unlikely the city will go along with this compromise. Brookfield Properties, which owns the park, recently sent a letter to the NYPD explaining, "Brookfield protocol and practice is to clean the park on a daily basis, power-washing it each weeknight, and to perform necessary inspection, maintenance, and repairs on a regular, as-needed basis. Since the occupation began, we have not been able to perform basic cleaning and maintenance activity, let alone perform more basic repairs. For example, if the lenses to the underground lighting have become cracked, water could infiltrate the electrical system, putting occupants of the Park at risk of an electrical hazard or causing short-circuiting which result in repairs requiring the Park to be be torn apart for rewiring."



http://gothamist.com/2011/10/13/protesters_refuse_to_leave_zuccotti.php

[jwirr]

8. Do not evacuate the park for the cleaners. I do not ask my great

grandchildren to get out of the house so I can clean. Moving to another area of the park while you area is being cleaned will not interfere with sanitary workers.

[tinkerbell41]

13. I call bullshit on the re-wiring part

I've installed plenty of those fixtures and no way in hell a measley cracked lens will do what they are saying.

[stellanoir]

7. perhaps they just want to tweak the surveillance or somethin'.

[butterfly77]

16. Exactly...

[MahayanaLotus]

9. As an old New Yorker

since when do they ever clean up the parks?

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Ding! Their sudden concern is....well, you know. Perhaps they should start with the bigger parks?

[TBF]

11. I'd love to see evidence of how frequently they've cleaned before this week. nt

[butterfly77]

12. I believe this is their way to ...

clear the protestors,among other things they have in mind..

[EFerrari]

14. It's all good. Gives them a new challenge to rally around.

This will backfire, imo.

[workinclasszero]

15. Bloomberg has 3 choices seems like

1. Leave OWS alone to exercise their constitutional rights of free speech and assembly. Ain't gonna happen cause the gangsters on wall street hate the 99 and the constitution.

2. Force OWS protesters out with violence, cracking skulls of teenagers, macing old folks and veterans, smashing cameramen into car bumpers, etc while the whole world watches. Uhh..don't look good in the *cough*landofthefreehomeofthebrave*cough*

Or..

3. Ask OWS folks to leave just for a bit to clean the place up. And then surround the place with barricades and heavy police presence and never allow OWS to get within half a mile of the place again so the banksters can continue the rape and wanton destruction of the world in peace.

I would guess its 3.

It wont even stop the movement though. It will prolly help it grow even faster if that's possible.