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To: LindyBill who wrote (450947)10/14/2011 7:23:40 AM
From: J.B.C.  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793955
 
Many are mercenaries, They're not going to stick around to be pepper spayed.



To: LindyBill who wrote (450947)10/14/2011 7:53:14 AM
From: FJB  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793955
 
NYC official: Protest cleanup is being postponed

Oct 14, 7:12 AM (ET)

By KAREN MATTHEWS

apnews.myway.com
NEW YORK (AP) - The cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending cheers up from a crowd that had feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them.

Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said the owners of the private park, Brookfield Office Properties, had put off the cleaning. Supporters of the protesters had started streaming into the park in the morning darkness before the planned cleaning, forming a crowd of several hundred chanting people.

"I'll believe it when we're able to stay here," said protester Peter Hogness, 56, a union employee from Brooklyn. "One thing we have learned from this is that we need to rely on ourselves and not on promises from elected officials...