Occupation Begins!

Occupy Delaware began today at 10am in H. Fletcher Brown Park in Wilmington Delaware. The General Assembly will meet at 3pm.

To get things started, volunteers and committee members joined together to clean up the park of irresponsible dog owners who don't comprehend the use of a doggy bag to clean up after their animal, and those who just don't care.

MORE TO COME AS THE DAY PROGRESSES!

Denied Permit

On 11-3 Occupy Delaware was denied a permit to use H. Fletcher Brown Park as a permanent Occupation location. Here's the denial letter (click the underlined to view).

The response to this?-  

After some outrage from the group, the ACLU stepping in to help and with a state government who is trying to avoid any standoffs, we were granted a temporary permit to use H. Fletcher Brown for the weekend. The Governor, Jack Markell, has offered us a different location which has more amenities, but is also a little more isolated than many in the group would like. The alternate location, Brandywine Park is 1 block away, and offers firmer, flatter grounds, grills, porta-johns and a few other things that could be utilized by the group. Decision to stay or more will be decided today at 3pm by the General Assembly in H. Fletcher Brown Park.


News Articles:

Delaware Online
Delaware Online Nov 4th 
News Journal Nov 5th

GA Meeting 11-2-11

The General Assembly meeting took place in it's usual spot in Newark. We discussed a few concerns regarding the location site of where the group is Occupying. We were originally denied our permit by DNREC who is more than willing to cooperate with us.

Video and pictures coming soon