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Mayor Nutter says rumors of imminent eviction false, but makes correction: mayors have been communicating about Occupy
While there is no plan to evict Occupy Philly tonight, the mayor's spokesperson says that, contrary to an earlier statement, mayors have been in communication about nationwide protests.
Mayor Nutter says rumors of imminent eviction false, but makes correction: mayors have been communicating about Occupy
“Not true,” says Mayor Michael Nutter’s spokesperson, Mark McDonald in response to rumors that the Occupy Philly encampment would be evicted later tonight. “Not going to happen.”
The date “Nov. 15” has been rumored to be the city’s deadline over the past weeks — and no one, the Mayor included, knows where the rumor originated.
“I started hearing that Nov. 15 was an important date," says McDonald. "I don’t know where that came from. It’s just not so. What is true is that at some point the construction project at Dilworth Plaza will happen, and Occupy Philly will move somewhere else. That’s a certainty.”
He says that some homeless people are leaving on their own.
“We are hearing that some homeless folks are departing. And that I would attribute to the prudent behavior of homeless people who don’t want the hassle and don’t want the stress. Most of them haven’t been participating in the general assemblies.”
McDonald did correct an earlier statement to City Paper in which he denied that Mayor Nutter had communicated with other mayors, including Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, about Occupy protests.
“On Sunday, the Mayor was asked at the press conference about whether there was some kind of coordinated thing going on. He pointed out that he is the Vice Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Mayors: he talks with mayors and groups of mayors all the time. They do that on a regular basis. And surely the subject of the Occupy phenomena has come up, and they compare notes. And apparently, on one of these recent calls, toward the end, someone came onto one of these calls and identified herself as Jean Quan. I did not know that, so I’m correcting that for the record.”
“What there is not,” he continued,” and the Mayor is not part of, is a coordinated effort on the part of cities to deal with Occupy protesters.”
McDonald says that the city is currently meeting with representatives of a group called the Reasonable Solutions Committee, which seeks to avoid conflict with the city.
“And if the main Occupy folks want to have a meeting,” says McDonald, “we certainly will. We’ve been trying to have a meeting for sometime now.”
Occupy Philly passed a resolution at Sunday’s General Assembly directing Legal Working Group members to do just that.
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