From The New York Times:
Responding to what he called unsanitary conditions at the private park in Lower Manhattan that has served as home base to the Occupy Wall Street protest for more than three weeks, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Wednesday night that protesters would be made to leave temporarily as the property was cleaned in stages.
Mr. Bloomberg made the announcement after visiting the park, Zuccotti Park, for the first time and informing the protesters in person that the cleaning would begin Friday, a statement released by his office said.
He cited deteriorating sanitary conditions as the reason the park’s owner, Brookfield Properties, wrote a letter to the city conveying its concerns “about its inability to clean the park and maintain it in a condition fit for public use.”
“The mayor is a strong believer in the First Amendment and believes that the protesters have a right to continue to protest,” Caswell Holloway, the deputy mayor for operations, said in a statement.
“At the same time, the last three weeks have created unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park. This situation is not in the best interests of the protesters, residents or the city.”
Well then it’s doubly bad that the New York #Occupy movement will be knocked out.
The global Oct 15 event looks great but the one event listed on their map for New York City is Occupy Wall Street, and unless a miracle happens in the next few hours, Occupy Wall Street is going to be shut down by Saturday.
I wonder if that’s why Bloomberg and Brookfield chose their timing of Oct. 14 to evict the protesters? Knocking out New York should have a big impact on the global effort.
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That would put the Sun at 21 Libra 57 at 12 Noon. Sabian Symbol: A child Giving Birds A Drink At A Fountain. Dane Rudhyer says “The connection between ‘child’ and ‘birds’ implies a spontaneous, naive rapport at the spiritual level, a soul-touch at the level of pure feelings.”
Where I live, at 12 Noon (Eastern Daylight Time) the Moon would have just crossed into Gemini and be sextile Uranus in Aries, as both form a quincunx with Mercury in Scorpio, making Mercury the focal point of a Finger of God (yod). The Sabian Symbol for that degree in Scorpio is “A Youth Carries A Lighted Candle In A Devotional Ritual”. Keynote: The educative power of ceremonies which impress the great images of a culture upon its gathered participants. (Rudhyer says Scorpio is especially related to rituals.) That degree in Scorpio will be where Mercury stays for at least several hours. Even the Moon would stay in orb for several hours, so any city in the U.S. would have this aspect in effect.
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The Occupy Movement goes global on the 15th. #OWS has endorsed and supports this event:
http://15october.net/