Excellent site too, fronting a number of downtown office buildings. It's a square area (200' x 300')of grassy lawn and oak trees
Joanna
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Whatever you might think about any of the militancy or mess or danger or whatever of the original main camp at Frank Ogawa Plaza/Oscar Grant, it is simply and clearly the case that the people at Snow Park bent over backwards to negotiate and conciliate the city in every respect they could, without ceasing to be a camp. They never had open cooking, they allowed police into the camp, they talked with anyone who would talk with them, they made clear that their modus operandi was nonviolence, and they stressed, constantly, that all they wanted was the right to remain. They passed a GA resolution to try to get a camping permit from the city. They kept their shit clean, even by the shifting standards of the city itself. And that wasn’t enough. The one thing the city wanted, above all, was their absence."