From the Huffington Post
On Thursday evening, a couple dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters in
Zuccotti Park grabbed brooms and buckets and set about sweeping up the
site. For the last two days, they had begun to work harder than usual to
keep the park clean and attractive, putting their brooms to work,
filling up buckets of water at nearby restaurants and even, according to
one protester, planting flowers.
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Protesters say they are cleaning the park so that the city doesn't
have to do so. On Wednesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Zuccotti Park would be closed temporarily
at the end of the week so that sanitation workers could clean it, which
they had not done since the protests began. Many of the protesters said
they saw this as a ploy to get them out of the park permanently, and
their suspicions were further intensified when Ray Kelly, the
commissioner of the NYPD, said Thursday that they would not be able to
bring back their sleeping bags and other items after leaving. The city's
clean-up is scheduled for 7:00 a.m. Friday, and many of the protesters
have vowed to resist any attempt at evacuation.
In a letter sent to Kelly on Tuesday, Richard B. Clark, the chief
executive of Brookfield Properties, the company that owns the park,
wrote, "After weeks of occupation, conditions at the park have
deteriorated to unsanitary and unsafe levels."
On behalf of the protestors, a group of New York civil liberties
lawyers issued a letter to Clark today in which they wrote that a
sanitation group at the site has been addressing the concerns raised in
the CEO's letter "all along" and has "committed itself to carrying out a
thorough and complete cleaning" as an extra measure...more
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