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OWS Protesters To March Across Brooklyn Bridge Tomorrow
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Christopher Robbins
Published Mar 31, 2012
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Six months ago more than 700 demonstrators were arrested in an Occupy Wall Street march on the Brooklyn Bridge. Tomorrow a march to commemorate the event that clogged the court system, spawned lawsuits and galvanized the movement will begin at 2:00 p.m. in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan and 1 Hanson Place in Brooklyn. After a march over the Brooklyn Bridge the groups will meet at Cadman Plaza for a General Assembly.
Two days after the eviction of Zuccotti Park, thousands of protesters gathered to march across the Brooklyn Bridge, an event that was largely peaceful.
As the legal wrangling over the arrests during the October 1 Brooklyn Bridge action continues to drag on, the question of whether Brookfield Properties and the NYPD had the authority to clear the park in the dead of night on November 15 is still unresolved.
The Times' Colin Moynihan reports that a lawyer defending two protesters arrested during the eviction argued yesterday that Brookfield Properties had no right to order protesters out of Zuccotti Park because of rules established over three decades ago that required it to be open 24 hours a day. "Brookfield lacked the authority to exclude people," attorney Jethro Eisenstein said.
Eisenstein, along with the NYCLU, argue that Brookfield is only allowed to clear the space if it gains approval from the City Planning Commission. An attorney for the city disagreed. "They have the ability to enforce rules," prosecutor Ryan Hayward said. Justice Matthew Sciarrino, Jr., made a point that the park's rules probably wouldn't permit any activity, added that the ordeal showed him that "the law is not simply what the city says it is." Sciarrino did not rule on the defense's motion to dismiss.
Mayor Bloomberg immediately claimed responsibility for the eviction, calling the decision, "mine and mine alone." The mayor argued that "the health of the public and our first responders" were at stake, so the park had to be forcibly cleaned. A cleaning that strangely no one was allowed to witness.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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