You surely meant "pick up" not "lick up" Jim. Thanks SO much. That is really good to hear. Meanwhile, I really wish the City would spend way more dollars on creating public facilities and a lot less of our money on creating public hostilities. Rick Conrad
On Oct 12, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Jim Cummings wrote: > 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 > >
