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| Occupy Philly Not High On Mayor Nutter's List |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 11/14/11 2:01 pm | updated: 11/14/11 2:01 pm |
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Sounds like Mayor Nutter has had enough of Occupy Philly. It’s already cost taxpayers more than $500,000 in police overtime and other expenses, and is now threatening to derail a $50 million revitalization project at Dilworth Plaza.
That's nearly 1,000 jobs that would put food on the table of the "99 percent" that Occupy Philly claims to represent. Jesse Jackson showed up Sunday afternoon and urged Philadelphia protesters to never surrender.
Mayor Nutter’s concerns include: an alleged rape over the weekend, unsanitary food distribution, graffiti, a tent fire, thefts and assaults. Public urination and defecation poses a "significant health threat," even though portable toilets are available. Nutter did not set a deadline for dismantling tent city yet.
"There are public-health and public-safety concerns that have nothing to do with Wall Street and corporations," Mayor Nutter said on Sunday, as he described the radical protesters who are "purposely" blocking the construction project.
"The Dilworth Plaza project will not be conducted by some corporate entity," Nutter said of the plan to turn the concrete plaza into a handicapped accessible green public space with a café and a fountain that could be used as a skating rink.
"These are real men and women. Philadelphians, Pennsylvanians, who need jobs, who need to take care of their families, their 99 percent in their households."
"This Occupy zone reminds Philadelphia that there's poverty. There's pain," civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson said.
Officials and some Occupy Philly members now say the movement is being redirected by more radical protesters who are hellbent on forcing a clash with police. The organizers that the Nutter administration had previously communicated with are "no longer on the scene," Mayor Nutter said.
"The leadership is being hijacked," said Fernando Antonio Salguero, a volunteer firefighter who runs the warming station at Occupy Philly.
"There are a number of individuals that have placed themselves into key positions that want the whole thing to burn, the whole system to burn," Salguero said.
"They want billy clubs and they want tear gas. They want to be martyred. I want us to move across the street to the Thomas Paine plaza and continue the good work."
"I'm sure if we go across the street, people will still sit in front of the construction site and link arms. And there's nothing wrong with that," Michael Yaroschuk, 29, a former IT worker from Bucks County, said outside the food tent. "The radicals will be here until the police take them away."
Nutter asked Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey to increase the uniformed police presence at Occupy Philly and "establish structured and strategic positioning and deployment of officers on a regular basis."
Asked what would happen if the protesters ignore the city's demands, Nutter responded:
"They'll find out."
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