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| OWS Moves in with SEIU |
| 2012-06-05 |
| Occupy DC's base camp in McPherson Square morphed over the past nine months from a few dozen protesters in sleeping bags to a virtual tent city. But over the past few weeks, one of the most enduring encampments of the national anti-Wall Street movement has all but disappeared. A library tent and a few tarps are all that remain of the ongoing vigil, and Occupiers who once spent their days in McPherson Square at the corner of 15th and K streets are mostly gone. Many of those who remain now meet in the offices that a labor union, the Service Employees International Union, rented for them a few blocks away. "There's a lot more drunks that hang out there," said protester Travis Schoff. "We don't really go there, especially at night." McPherson Park or the SEIU union hall? |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #5 ...well, not the senior union officers who are raking in the mandatory deductions from the workers paychecks. I'm sure they don't think its a bug, but a feature. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-06-05 16:43 |
| #4 The SEIU is a liability any way you look at it. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-06-05 14:10 |
| #3 Occupiers say they are victims of PTSD I suppose they will apply for disability benefits... |
| Posted by: Beavis 2012-06-05 12:15 |
| #2 When the OWS morons have outlived their usefulness, the SEIU will disavow them and boot their butts to the curb (very shortly after the first Tuesday in November, I presume). What a shock to the unwashed masses that'll be. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2012-06-05 11:45 |
| #1 McPherson Park or the SEIU union hall? Yes |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2012-06-05 11:39 |