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abelenkpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 04:19 PM
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NYC Residents: Please Attend 6:00 PM Meeting Today to Bar Real Estate Board Plan to Block #OccupyWal
NYC Residents: Please Attend 6:00 PM Meeting Today to Bar Real Estate Board Plan to Block #OccupyWallStreet Protests

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/nyc-residents-please-attend-600-pm-meeting-today-to-bar-move-by-real-estate-board-to-block-occupywallstreet-protests.html

So the top 1% now want to revoke the Constitution, it appears, or at least the right to public assembly. This story ran earlier in the week on WNYC:

Property owners are moving to change an old zoning law that has allowed anti-Wall Street protesters to camp out in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan around the clock.

A 1960′s era zoning rule gave developers zoning concessions in return for building public plazas that would be accessible 24 hours a day. This rule has since changed so that new privately built public spaces may close overnight; however, the plazas built under the earlier rule were not affected and still kept open 24 hours.

Real Estate Board President Steve Spinola said his organization, which represents institutions and people involved in NY real estate, will request a zoning change that will allow those plazas built under the 1961 rule to close at 1 a.m. “I do believe that plazas should have the right to shut down at a certain time because they were not meant for camping out,” he said

(more at link)

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