It looks like the organizers are trying to figure out a way to resist the New York authorities from kicking them out of Zuccotti Park….   Pass the popcorn….
The Daily Wh.at  – Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently told demonstrators they were welcome to occupy Zuccotti Park “indefinitely,” visited the movement’s home base today to tell those present they would have to evacuate by tomorrow morning so the park could be cleaned.

Though Zuccotti Park is open to the public, it is actually a privately owned space belonging to Brookfield Office Properties. Brookfield’s chief executive penned a two-page letter to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, asking for assistance in clearing the park so that the company can address the “health and public safety issue” allegedly created by the “trespassing of the protesters.”
Though Bloomberg promised Occupy Wall Street participants they would be allowed to return to the park after maintenance work was completed, new park rules posted today (see above) prohibit further construction of tents, as well as “lying  down on the ground” with or without sleeping bags (which are now  prohibited as well).

As Think Progress notes, these rules are “designed to effectively end #occupywallstreet.”
Occupy Wall Street organizers are attempting to orchestrate a volunteer clean up operation with the help of $3,000 for supplies and anyone willing to lend a hand. More info in this emergency call to action.The clearing of Zuccotti Park is set to begin tomorrow at 7 AM.

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