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Occupy
Detroit
gets one
week
extension
from
City
Council
to clear
Grand
Circus
Park
DETROIT
(Tell Us
Det) -
Members
of the
Occupy
Detroit
movement
packed
up food,
fire
wood and
portable
electric
generators
to take to
temporary
storage warehouse
in
southwest
Detroit
ahead
of
police
action
during
an
evection
deadline
at 11:59
PM
tonight.
A raid
on the
camp by
the
Detroit
Police
on
Monday
night
seems
imminent,
but
what's
most important
is for
authorities
to get
fear and
paranoia
out of
the mix
and help
protesters
make
good
decisions
based on
clear
thought
and not
knee-jerk
reactions.
OD
members
sat
through
a
lengthy
council
session
Monday
morning
before
taking
part in
the
public
comment
portion
of the
agenda,
but
Council
members
re-stated
the
permit
for the
group
has not
been
approved.
The
vacate
time has
not
changed,
though a
vote is
set for
Tuesday,
well
after
the
evection
deadline
has
passed.
Some
city
council
members
seem to
be
sympathetic
to the
group.
The
movement
is not
sure
when or
where
the new
camp
will be
set up
but
there
have
been
several
private
property
owners
in the
area who
are
willing
to allow
the camp
to
relocate
to their
lots.
The City
of
Detroit
Recreation
Department,
late
last
month
issued a
30-day
permit
retroactive
to Oct.
14,
which
was day
one of
the
Grand
Circus
Park
occupation.
City
officials
say the
evection warnings
and cold,
wet
weather
have
dropped
the tent
population
from
over 150
to about
20.
In a
tense
escalation
of the
Occupy
Portland
protest,
police
in riot
gear
Sunday
surrounded
demonstrators
in a
downtown
park
area
after
hundreds
of
people
defied
the
mayor's
order to
leave
the park
by
midnight.
Occupy
Oakland
campers
are
looking
over
their
shoulders
these
days, as
the
feeling
is it's
not if
police
will
forcibly
remove
them,
it's
when.
For the
second
time in
24
hours,
police
distributed
eviction
notices
to
protesters
at Frank
Ogawa
Plaza
and Snow
Park on
Saturday
morning.
A
homicide
on the
encampment's
doorstep,
camp
crackdowns
in other
Occupy
establishments
across
the
country
and
ramped
up
rhetoric
have
created
a tense
community,
although
it did
not stop
a
spirited
march
Saturday
evening.
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