DAILY GRINDER: Occupy Philly is Happening, Right Now
Like the headline says. It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for. More info below… But in the meantime, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office was evacuated yesterday because of a “security issue.” They’re not saying what it was. Just that is was an issue. Something about security. Try, try again: City Council has passed a revised mandatory sick...
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Mayor’s Office Prepares for Occupy Philly’s Demonstration at City Hall
Police Chief Charles Ramsey (left) and Managing Director Rich Negrin. Mayor Nutter met with representatives of Occupy Philly today, including part of their legal team, to discuss their planned occupation of City Hall starting tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. The administration doesn’t seem thrilled about the impending camp-out/demonstration, which is planning on...
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Occupy Philly Chooses Site for Occupation: Thursday, City Hall, 9AM
While people filed into the Arch Street United Methodist Church for the better part of an hour last week, chanters tested the harmony of their voices. Occupy Philly protesters will begin occupying City Hall on Thursday at 9 a.m. In a decision made at the packed, standing-room-only 900-person-capacity United Methodist Church on Arch Street near City Hall yesterday,...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Occupy Philly Meeting Tonight
The Occupy Philly General Assembly meeting is tonight at 6:30pm at the Arch Street Methodist Church. Check out PW’s previous coverage on the madness here and here. The body of a woman pulled from the Schuylkill yesterday has been identified as the same woman who drove her car off Kelly Drive and into the river on Thursday. Police have not released her identity. On...
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Hundreds Gather for First Occupy Philly Meeting
Close to 400 people turned up at the United Methodist Church at Broad and Arch streets last night for the first meeting of Occupy Philly—a planned demonstration/camp-in and show of solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests in Lower Manhattan over the past two weeks that’s been garnering increasing media attention and spawning similar groups in...
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