The City has provided trash and recycling lick up twice per day. The Transport Workers Union is paying for portable toilets which should be on site soon. Jim Cummings Occupy Philly Sanitation Working Group
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Richard Conrad <[email protected]>wrote: > The Daily News says the first five days of Occupy Philadelphia cost the > city $164,000 in police overtime, police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers said > yesterday, an average of about $32,800 a day. > > But while the Police, generally, have been courteous - and often helpful, > their huge numbers have done nothing really useful as far as I can see, and > they have made it rather more difficult for attendees to find parking and to > set up their needed sustenance facilities on site. The City says they are > proud to be the birthplace of Liberty and our First Amendment rights... O.K. > > How much do we spend on July 4th celebrations? That event was actually > over... and the people went home almost 225 years ago... Let's get a little > more current here! Wall St., Banks, Government Agencies, are allowing for a > Super Wealthy 400 individuals to have more money than 60% of the rest of the > country. Corporations are not limited by the most common and important laws > but the citizens are treated like criminals. What Thomas Jefferson warned > against has become a frightening hideous reality! > > Please send messages to the city asking them to stand up and live out the > creed that all men were created equal and endowed by their creator with > inalienable rights...! > > Sanitary facilities and Porta Pots are provided for countless upscale > events; and the City has underwritten sports arenas and victory > celebrations, religious festivals and events, visits by myriad prominent > people, public funerals, etc, etc, etc. So far there are none provided at > City Hall. > > There are probably about fifty unused Council Only Parking spots being > wasted, and then there are Official Only, City Vehicles Only, Group A Only, > and Group B Only parking spots marked... but since Dr. Suess died I have no > way of determining who (things) A and B are... > > After Martin Luther King was assassinated, on April 4th, 1966, two days > later, I and a large group of peaceful protesters at FDR Park, near the site > of the commissioning of the Battleship New Jersey, were arrested by the City > for planting a memorial tree in honor of Dr. King. > > Please people... Tell the City to walk the walk! > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "UCNeighbors" > group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/ucneighbors?hl=en > -- Jim Cummings
