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Occupy Philly Dwindling?

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 11/28/11 10:40 am | updated: 11/28/11 10:40 am

City workers are helping to clean up Dilworth Plaza as a few dozen Occupy Philadelphia protesters remain there in defiance of an order to clear out.

The demonstrators are now allowed to gather across the street at Thomas Paine Plaza from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily but does not allow them to pitch tents or to spend the night.
There are no signs that police plan to take action anytime soon.

Besides the protesters, about 75 tents remained along the 15th Street side of City Hall - down from perhaps 300 just a couple of weeks ago.

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"It looks like a quiet day, hopefully," said Michael Pierce, an occupier from Mount Holly. "The whole goal today to clean up all the messes left behind by the people who moved out."

Two city trash trucks were idling on 15th street as roaming city workers picked up discarded signs, empty boxes and other debris, including a tent.

"OCCUPY PHILLY FOREVER" read a sign on the ground near a jar, a bowl and some tubes of paint.
Police Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel strolled through the plaza after daybreak, urging one young man to leave, while denying any plans of imminent police action.

Orders will have to come from City Hall, he said.
As for more negotiations, plenty of talks have already been held over the last 56 days, he said.
The police presence at 10 a.m. Monday included six patrol cars on the corner of 15th and Market Streets, a half dozen uniformed officers and a half dozen plainclothes officer with orange Police Department armbands.

At 9 a.m. today, a permit went into effect allowing Occupy Philadelphia to stage a protest at Thomas Paine Plaza, next to the Municipal Services Building, across JFK Boulevard from City Hall.

The permit allows Occupiers to be there from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily but does not allow them to pitch tents or to spend the night.

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