Occupy Philly gets wet, gets up late and needs supplies

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Peter Mucha

Inquirer Staff Writer
The seventh day of Occupy Philadelphia got off to a quiet start, with rain falling lightly on the more than 100 still zipped-up tents.

But keeping protesters inside, as rush-hour traffic was splashing by, wasn't the weather so much as the need for sleep. The mini-city was alive late into the night with socializing and social-policy discussions, said Adam Hill, 28, a self-styled "failing independent contractor" from Norristown.

"A lot of new people showed up," said Hill, who arrived himself last evening and didn't crash until about 4 a.m. That's about when the tent next to him went up, at the southwest corner of City Hall's Dilworth Plaza.

"There was a lot of energy," as people were "bouncing ideas off each other," he said. ". . . There were a few heated debates but no arguments." ...

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