Occupiers digging in at Dilworth Plaza?

More participants may be leaning toward defying requests to vacate City Hall plaza in time for renovations

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Occupiers digging in at Dilworth Plaza?

POSTED: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 3:20 PM

A new anonymous blog that purports to be by an Occupy Philly member makes a rather mournful assessment of the discussions about whether to comply with requests that protestors move out of Dilworth Plaza for scheduled renovations. The Reasonable Solutions blogger wrote:

"This morning our group, that was present at G.A., is reporting that the majority has shifted back to staying and resisting police. Reasonable Solutions has been advocating that we expand to a second location, and while we were gaining support over the last few days there was a major tide change yesterday.  An unofficial count was 80 for resisting, 12 for not resisting. Another report stated that it was more like 40 to 10. Either way that is a super majority. This may be due to:

  • lack of Solutioners on site (although I know we don’t have 80+ members)
  • 4 days of persuasion hypnosis brought by our opposition
  • the shake up we experienced amongst our donations and resources committee"

The subject will come to a vote at this Friday's General Assembly and could be a turning point for the Philly demonstration, which has so far worked peacefully with the city.

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