Occupy L.A. receives offer to decamp Protesters could get downtown office space and farmland

[sce56]

Occupy L.A. receives offer to decamp
Protesters could get downtown office space and farmland if they leave City Hall.


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1122-occupy-la-move-20111122,0,1592348.story

Los Angeles officials have offered Occupy L.A. protesters a package of incentives that includes downtown office space and farmland in an attempt to persuade them to abandon their camp outside of City Hall, according to several demonstrators who have been in negotiations with the city.

The details of the proposal were revealed Monday during the demonstration's nightly general assembly meeting by Jim Lafferty, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild who has been advocating on behalf of the protest since it began seven weeks ago.

Lafferty said city officials have offered protesters a $1-a-year lease on a 10,000-square-foot office space near City Hall. He said officials also promised land elsewhere for protesters who wish to farm, as well as additional housing for the contingent of homeless people who joined the camp.
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Lafferty said he told city officials that protesters may not agree to the proposed exit strategy. "I have made it clear that there are some people who would want to stay and others who want to take that offer," he said, adding that the offer of office space will remain even if some "stay here and decide to get arrested."




I say they should go for it and set the example of a OWS Group getting community support for a community effort at re-engineering the democratic society we live in!

[liberal N proud]

1. Stuck in a corner - out of site/out of mind?

[dmr]

4. That's my initial reaction

I don't know what the answers are, I'm not so sure I'd trust this one. I'd be afraid of being marginalized.
:shrug:

[a simple pattern]

5. If you won't tell us who your leaders are

we'll just wait and see who emerges

This is a surveillance setup and they are stupid if they take it

I'll keep occupying thanks

[katty]

6. yup-beware of great handouts

[Hardrada]

2. They could perhaps offer them some former Christian Science Reading Rooms

if they don't put up any signs. Or an unused warehouse down by the river.

[TheWraith]

3. Sounds like a pretty good deal. nt