Told to Leave Park, Wall St. Protesters Talk Strategy – NYTimes.com

Occupy Wall Street faces a major practical/tactical decision, and so does Mayor Bloomberg.

At meetings in the corner of the park, protesters discussed strategy in light of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s announcement Wednesday night that the Occupy Wall Street protesters would have to leave temporarily starting at 7 a.m. Friday so that the park could be cleaned. Many have called the evacuation order a pretext for shutting down the protests permanently.

Some people advocated nonviolent resistance. But the wider consensus seemed to be that if the protesters cleaned up their own sleeping bags and tarps and pieces of cardboard and made the park better than new, the city and the park’s owners, Brookfield Properties, might relent and let them stay.

via Told to Leave Park, Wall St. Protesters Talk Strategy – NYTimes.com.